Missouri-West Virginia a real yawner!

[bamanut_aj]

Umm, yeah. The TV networks have been offering the NCAA what would amount to a cargo ship filled with Gold bars for an 8-team 3 week playoff for years. The last number I heard was larger than the annual SuperBowl contract (but over 7 games). Money is NOT why the NCAA won't go to a playoff in D1 - it's why they WON'T go to a playoff.

The college presidents who make up the NCAA rightly fear that if football starts to bring in that much money they would loose what little control they have now over those programs.



There's never been a year since the last episode of MASH when the SuperBowl isn't the highest rated program of the year. Ad revenues have climbed year over year over year. You could put any two teams in that game and still go off the charts.

The fact is the BCS Championship Game is getting to that level. If they got smart and held it on a Saturday (or even a Friday or Sunday) night instead of a Monday, the ratings would be closer to the SuperBowl - again, regardless of the two teams involved.

I'm not arguing against your points, but some Super Bowl matchups get much higher ratings than others. I'm not arguing your points about the presidents because you're right, and I feel they are very short-sighted. I'm simply saying that if we have a few more years of cloudy NC scenarios and ho-hummer NC games RATINGS WISE, the people in power who concern themselves with $$$ will start to freak out. mizzou-wv is not an advertiser's dream....it just isn't. I'm fine with it if they are the best teams. I'm just looking at it from the money-grubbers point of view.