Time to Talk College Football Playoffs
Football Jabber —
... T.K Wetherell piped up about it last week at a Football Issues forum. Wetherell is convinced that at a minimum a “Plus One” playoff is going to eventually happen. Why? Money. Wasn’t money the reason not to have it you ask? It appears Wetherell is pointing at the gas pump as a reason that schools will lose money when playing throw away games.“How am I going to get people to drive from Miami to Tallahassee, Fla., with gas at four dollars a gallon, to watch us play UT-Chattanooga?” Wetherell said Friday. So what we could be looking at is teams losing money traveling to a stadium ...
The Long March, or, Yes, Virginia, There Will Be a Playoff
Sunday Morning Quarterback —
... the other presidents in the SEC; this May, a coalition of commissioners from two separate conferences took the idea to the rest of the country. Compare this situation to the state of playoff grumbling a decade ago: the proposals are on the table now, made not by a wingnut from his couch but by a segment of the very power brokers so long said to be barricading the door from the barbarians and their brackets. We're inside the castle, and soon it will be ours. T.K. Wetherall sees the torches and pitchforks coming: ...
Morning Coffee Is In Transition
Burnt Orange Nation —
... . And I'm hardly out on a limb on the latter front: In a sport wherein the mile-long march to a playoff is going to take all 5,280 baby steps to get there, we've hit something like mile marker 4,250, in which one of the university presidents actually talks on record about the 800-pound gorilla in the room - as always, money. ...
A Bracket By Any Other Name...
Sunday Morning Quarterback —
... When Florida State president T.K. Wetherall predicted an inevitable lurch toward a playoff after a majority of conference commissioners killed the idea a couple weeks ago, he probably thought he was joining the regional bandwagon ...
A Modest Proposal, Part III: What I Want
Garnet And Black Attack —
... A Modest Proposal was an attempt to carve a third way between those who want a 16-team, weeks-sprawling, season-gutting playoff and those who try to pretend that T.K. Wetherall was wrong. He's not: There will be a playoff eventually, though his ascribing it to "money" is to only brush up against the reason why. ...
