% of Mem Stad taken by season ticket holders? BCS Playoff ?

I don't think it will matter if the bowl game is in the same week as the play-off game. The Capital One Bowl had another bowl a day or two before our game this last year, IIRC.

 
SOme of you guys are silly. Football starts when the temp starts sinking below 40. Some of the greatest, most fun games I had played in involved snow or a monsoon. Kids these days are pussies.

And as far as the ticket thing for a postseason game would go, I am willing to bet that UNL would up the amount the visiting team would have reserved. This would probably be mandated by the NCAA(a certain % of the stadium, or some other BCS like formula to get the final number). The remainder of the seats would be offered to season ticket holders(probably by order of amounts donated). Much like Creighton has done when it "hosts" NCAA Tourney games. THe same amount of student tickets would be availible to the student body, but some kind of raffle/lottery system would be used to decide who would get said seats.

In the long run, as much as I am in favor of this idea to a "playoff", I can't see it ever happening. There is so much money that can be thrown about by corporate sponsers that will keep these games in the current "big bowl" venues.

 
If a great season means we get to play Alabama in January in Lincoln I will take it.......... I figure the money will work it's self out. The TV draw will be the same if the game is in Lincoln or Bama (in my dream game) fans that Tune in don't care where a great game is being played. Assuming all said games sell out (unlike most bowl games) the only $ left on the table would be local sponsors. Today big bowls are played in tourist towns cause even a shi**y game may make one decide to head to Orlando or vegas cause they offer more than a game. I agree with PaulCrewe I love a crap weather game .......

 
My toes are still a little numb from a game in Cozad..or was it the one on the Tundra in Broken Bow?

It's really hard to get bowl tickets out here (Phoenix area) All three usually sell out months in advance..

 
Bill Hancock also said that in the current system 95% of the BCS championship game stadium is taken by fans of the teams having vested interested in who wins, which I don't believe for a second. I find it hard to believe that games like that have a much higher percentage of people going because of their affiliation with a sponsor and the like. I would much rather have a stadium full of true fans watching the game even if that meant having to go on the road to play in the semifinals.

I guess I don't really mind the bowl system but I think they really need to do away with the conference ties and just try to place teams in bowls to provide the best match ups and interesting games. Who really wants to watch Oklahoma against Connecticut from a couple years ago. I would be for a top 4 playing for the championship and then the rest of the teams could play in bowls, but make the bowls interesting to watch. I love football and will watch almost any game that is on tv but in recent years there have been a lot of bowls that are really boring. I want to see traditional powers squaring off, I want to see great offenses matched against great defenses, I mean if the bowls don't really mean anything in terms of deciding the championship (which they don't now) make it the best entertainment possible!

 
C'mon, guys - it's not like Bill Hancock would make up stuff to protect the BCS. He doesn't have a vested interest in anything. He's just an impartial outside observer, like the rest of us.

 
knapplc said:
C'mon, guys - it's not like Bill Hancock would make up stuff to protect the BCS. He doesn't have a vested interest in anything. He's just an impartial outside observer, like the rest of us.
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I realize he is basically an administrator, that the University Presidents etc make the decisions and that of course he is going to say things that put what he represents in a good light but why lie about it? We all know that is not true.

I found it a bit humorous that the first question the local radio guys asked him was how did he feel about the fact that if most college football fans had their way he wouldn't have a job. He just laughed it off.

 
HUSKER 37 said:
My toes are still a little numb from a game in Cozad..or was it the one on the Tundra in Broken Bow?

It's really hard to get bowl tickets out here (Phoenix area) All three usually sell out months in advance..
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Where are you from? Sounds like you're from a Southwest Conference town

 
Jaybird said:
Bill Hancock also said that in the current system 95% of the BCS championship game stadium is taken by fans of the teams having vested interested in who wins, which I don't believe for a second. I find it hard to believe that games like that have a much higher percentage of people going because of their affiliation with a sponsor and the like. I would much rather have a stadium full of true fans watching the game even if that meant having to go on the road to play in the semifinals.

I guess I don't really mind the bowl system but I think they really need to do away with the conference ties and just try to place teams in bowls to provide the best match ups and interesting games. Who really wants to watch Oklahoma against Connecticut from a couple years ago. I would be for a top 4 playing for the championship and then the rest of the teams could play in bowls, but make the bowls interesting to watch. I love football and will watch almost any game that is on tv but in recent years there have been a lot of bowls that are really boring. I want to see traditional powers squaring off, I want to see great offenses matched against great defenses, I mean if the bowls don't really mean anything in terms of deciding the championship (which they don't now) make it the best entertainment possible!
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I definitely agree that taking away bowl/conference tie-ins would help a lot, and it seem so simple, but yeah why not just base it mostly off rating (also if teams had played eachother already?)

 
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