USA Today: Break up Saban's Monopoly

[Bodhisattva]

What a wimpy, whiny article.

Schrotenboer's soft mentality is a large art of what's wrong with the world today.

Absolutely agree!

Like with the rest of life, if you want to succeed more, then work harder and smarter. Or you can stand around and cry.

A couple of my favorite CNS quotes:

"Mediocre people hate high achievers, and high achievers hate mediocre people."

“There are two pains in life. There is the pain of discipline and the pain of disappointment. If you can handle the pain of discipline, then you'll never have to deal with the pain of disappointment.”

 

[USCBAMA]

He’s basically calling for socialism applied to football: tax and regulate us down to the level of everyone else’s mediocrity...

He is on the scholarship thing (which I think is a terrible idea), but in terms of expanding playoff, that is literally doing the opposite. In that aspect he is calling for more competition, as current cfp system is a bit monopolistic & fascist in nature where a few giant teams (companies) partner with cfp (gov't) to limit/restrict the competition.

Expanding playoff would be a free-market/capitalistic approach, if that's what you're suggesting is the better path vs socialism.

 

[Ndovu Ekundu]

The message of the article seems to be "Since we cannot win, someone needs to change the rules to make it easier for us."

 

[bamatex82]

Expanding the playoffs would only be viable if you narrow the field of competition. There's too many teams, like UCF a couple of years ago, that don't have a competitive schedule. Need to create another division to be honest. OR have relegation league like soccer. 130 teams chasing after the title with only 12 games, in a normal year, is a recipe for whiners all the time. Let the whiners have their own league for a championship.

 

[USCBAMA]

How is it really that much worse though? In the history of the CFP only two outcomes would have been different than the BCS. OSU won the 2014 season instead of Alabama or Oregon. Alabama won 2017 instead of Clemson or Oklahoma.

How so - 4 of the 7 cfp title games featured a 3 or 4 seed (one featured both). The BCS always pitted 1 vs 2, so 57% of the time the cfp title game has not matched what a BCS game would've looked like. So while a 1 or 2 seed has won 5 out of 7 cfp titles, in 2 of those wins the opponent was not a 1 or 2 seed so no way to know if outcome would've been same.

The above is actually a great example of what expanded playoff brings. Just going from 2 teams to 4 teams greatly changed who was playing for the title - with BCS, 100% of the time the predetermined #1 & #2 teams played for title, but that has only happened 43% of the time in cfp.

 

[MILEHIGHTIDE]

Look yall need to stop this. This individual, I do not want to offend anyone with pronouns etc, has a very compelling point and it is not right to not hear it out. With that being said, maybe we should just give participation trophies and not keep score. What about making it coed and forcing just coach Saban and no other teams or coaches to play a minimum of ten females at 10 different positions during each game for at least 10 snaps each? Before you start judging again vanderbilt had success with it earlier this year? Please any suggestions as I would like to confer with the individual that wrote the original article as well as USA Today and then submit suggestions in the suggestion box at the nearest Holiday Inn Expresses to these respective individuals and all ncaa participating institutions team’s conference’s headquarters. Paul Harvey too.

 

[USCBAMA]

Expanding the playoffs would only be viable if you narrow the field of competition. There's too many teams, like UCF a couple of years ago, that don't have a competitive schedule. Need to create another division to be honest. OR have relegation league like soccer. 130 teams chasing after the title with only 12 games, in a normal year, is a recipe for whiners all the time. Let the whiners have their own league for a championship.

The limited schedule (12 games) makes if nearly impossible to fairly evaluate a PAC12 team against a Big12 team against an ACC team against.... An upper & lower division would be great, I just don't see smaller schools going for that, probably a pipe dream.

 

[Sensation77]

Yeah, I don't think any of those would have mattered and it is whiney. Now for 2021, I will say this and it could make things interesting: all four QBs that were in the playoffs are leaving school, and that should leave an opportunity for some new blood to make the playoffs.

I'd be willing to bet Rattler has Oklahoma in the playoffs next season.

 

[Bama Lee]

call the whambulance..... current generation whiners!!!

 

[bamagradinATL]

When we lose “the dynasty is over” when we win “they're a monopoly, break them up.”

Where was this clown when we went through DuBose, Fran, Price & Shula?

 

[rolltide7854]

But Saban is washed up. The game has passed him by. The dynasty cannot have a monopoly if the dynasty is dead.

I wonder if Colin ******* would like to destroy the clip where he says Gus Malzahn will chase Saban out of the SEC.

 

[dayhiker]

I lost a few IQ points from reading that.

 

[shaggy]

You want to break it up? Beat us. Plenty of schools with more money, more nearby high school talent. If you can't beat us, then shut up.

 

[bamafan76]

Where was this clown when we went through DuBose, Fran, Price & Shula?

probably not old enough to know who they are...

 

[CHATTBRIT]

The solution is easy to beat CNS: recruit better, coach better, play better. Should have been obvious to the writer.

 

[Saint&Sinner]

Alabama is a college football monopoly. Is it time to break it up? (usatoday.com)

College Football is his own private club LOL

 

[Tenntiderman]

Really, that's his issue. How would expansion change anything? Just means 1 more blow out Bama would have had to play before winning it all. The people that think expansion will create more diversity in champions are really dumb. It hasn't done that at any level of college football to date.

Maybe you can remember back in the 80s? Can you recall when Portland St was promoting their WB? And the program as..upper tier? That period was like UCF or Coastal Carolina today. I am not against these schools so..dont get me wrong there...but there is a definite difference between ROCK solid programs.....like Bama, OSU, Florida, Clemson, Michigan, Oklahoma, etc, etc...versus schools that DO have really good programs that have arrived on the scene. Like those I mentioned.
Not saying they shouldnt be recognized....but there are some programs that are just not going to be able to hang with the elite teams. Just like..there are guitars on the market that are much cheaper than higher quality brands. Some are really good..but if you need that instrument to stand up to sound quality requirements no matter the weather, daily travel, dependability needs, precision of hardware..you need to stay with upper tier brands. Portland St was a fine athletic program then..but never were they elite. Like some of these schools today are not yet elite. May be be one day..but not now for sure. Deserve bowl games..but not playoff games. JMO.

 

[crimsonaudio]

Always good to remember that pretty much every sportswriter is an idiot.

 

[BamaMoon]

Alabama is a college football monopoly. Is it time to break it up? (usatoday.com)

College Football is his own private club LOL

Don't guess he believes in the old motto "If you can't beat 'em join 'em." He could have just stopped at praising CNS.

Isn't it great to be hated for winning?!?!

 

[lowend]

I'm not going to read it, but the author probably isn't wrong if the idea is to make Saban retire. The entire SEC coaching ranks have turned over multiple times during his tenure, Urban Meyer has come and gone and come and gone, FSU's rent-a-championship lease ran out, Big Game Bob retired to enjoy life, and more. When you're the best of all time you don't get it right every year, but you get it right more often than not.