Gordon Gee’s Uninformed, Ignorant Rant Actually Helped the College Football Playoff Cause

Gordon Gee, Buffoon: The Ohio State President, a bow-tied stooge, may soon regret his ignorant comments yesterday about the BCS. In another powerful column from Dan Wetzel that continues to chip away at the shaky foundation of the BCS, “[Gee's] base sense of logic tells him what almost everyone long ago realized – the BCS is an absurd system … the BCS isn’t about crowning a champion in college football, it was just a tool created so private bowl games could continue to operate (and profit handsomely from) college football’s postseason … [and] continue to take hundreds of millions annually from the pockets of actual colleges.” Here’s audio of Ohio State coach Jim Tressel saying we’ll have a college football playoff within five years.

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21 Responses to “Gordon Gee’s Uninformed, Ignorant Rant Actually Helped the College Football Playoff Cause”

thedude110 Says:
November 25th, 2010 at 11:52 AM

The Ohio State President, a bow-tied stooge

lol

ButtersBC Says:
November 25th, 2010 at 11:54 AM

it was just a tool created so private bowl games could continue to operate (and profit handsomely from) college football’s postseason

Isn’t Wetzel’s big playoff argument that it will make more money and thus profit handsomely off of college football’s postseason?

And if a bowtie was good enough for Brother Mouzone then it should be good enough for the president of the nation’s largest university

Jim Harbaugh Scramble Says:
November 25th, 2010 at 11:55 AM

In another powerful column from Dan Wetzel that continues to chip away at the shaky foundation of the BCS

lol.

I’m thankful for TBL.

Wetzel is as much of a buffoon as bowtie boy.

Krak Says:
November 25th, 2010 at 11:55 AM

This is the guy who said after the ’92 game with UM “the greatest victory ever”

/ended in a tie

St. Bear Says:
November 25th, 2010 at 11:55 AM

I’m thankful that despite failing to acknowledge our points and opinions in a multitude of topics, TBL continues to let us crash here. Well, most of us at least.

Thanks TBL.

Jim Harbaugh Scramble Says:
November 25th, 2010 at 11:59 AM

anyone been forwarded a text of a dancing turkey yet? hopefully you can avoid it, I wasn’t so lucky.

Senator Jersey Says:
November 25th, 2010 at 12:01 PM

[and] continue to take hundreds of millions annually from the pockets of actual colleges.”

Huh?

VladimirCrouton Says:
November 25th, 2010 at 12:01 PM

Why can’t The Tooth Fairy just go away?

Geeezeus Says:
November 25th, 2010 at 12:02 PM

Vlad – did you see the DJ King/Eric Goddard preview for 24/7?

VladimirCrouton Says:
November 25th, 2010 at 12:03 PM

Yeah I saw it earlier. Did you see the Sid/Talbot one?

Geeezeus Says:
November 25th, 2010 at 12:05 PM

Yes, I’m getting pretty jacked up for it to start.

michaele11111 Says:
November 25th, 2010 at 12:12 PM

Nuking the NCAA is a good place to start.

Bueller Says:
November 25th, 2010 at 12:21 PM

I posted this in the other thread, looking for feedback:

Here is what I have been proposing:

Eliminate the Conference Championship games (they are mostly rematches just done for revenue anyway). Use that week for the first round of the playoffs. 16 teams, the 12 conference division champions plus the 4 highest BCS teams – the Independents, highest ranked small conference teams and at large. Probably only 2 at-large once Big East and Mountain West go to 2 divisions.

1st Round, for example, the SEC East would rotate playing an ACC Division champ, Big East team, Big Ten East or at large team. The SEC West would rotate with the Big 12 Divisions, Big Ten West or even Mountain West. If the SEC is so good, they would get 2 of the final 8 (maybe 3 if they get an at large and that team wins), weak conferences would get 0 as they would lose their first round match ups. The school presidents should be able to live with this because the playoffs would add only 3 total games to what is played now (the 2 semi-finals and NC)

Play the Bowls the same as now except instead of 1 meaningful game and 3 semi meaningful games, the Bowls would get 6 huge games (the quarterfinals and the Semi-finals). You could use the Big 4 bowls and promote 2 Bowls – maybe Cowboy Stadium and Yankee Stadium. The NC could be bid out between cities and played the week between the Conference Championships and Super Bowl.

ButtersBC Says:
November 25th, 2010 at 12:22 PM

Play the Bowls the same as now except instead of 1 meaningful game and 3 semi meaningful games, the Bowls would get 6 huge games (the quarterfinals and the Semi-finals)

You’d have ACC Championship Game crowds at those…people don’t go to the early rounds of the basketball tournament and those are 17,000 seat arenas, good luck filling up a football stadium

Bueller Says:
November 25th, 2010 at 12:25 PM

Butters, I am playing the Bowls exactly the way they are played now -so they would be getting those same crowds now. It will be the same 60 teams in 30 Bowls – just that 8 teams will be playing for a shot at another rounds

Garland Greene Says:
November 25th, 2010 at 12:51 PM

It will be the same 60 teams in 30 Bowls – just that 8 teams will be playing for a shot at another rounds

Wouldn’t there be challenges associated with asking some fanbases to travel up to 3 times to support their school at neutral sites? Or am I reading this wrong.

Bueller Says:
November 25th, 2010 at 12:55 PM

GG, I am just replacing the conference championship game travel with first round games so no additional travel. There would be just 4 schools (the Semi-finalists) with an addition travel game.

ms621 Says:
November 25th, 2010 at 2:00 PM

Redraw conferences based on geography and have the NCAA do all scheduling. Pour gravy all over and enjoy. Happy thanksgiving everyone.

TheBigLead Says:
November 25th, 2010 at 2:19 PM

You’d have ACC Championship Game crowds at those…people don’t go to the early rounds of the basketball tournament and those are 17,000 seat arenas, good luck filling up a football stadium

butters – history lesson time: For a decade, schools have had to shell out big bucks for unsold seats. not to mention that the higher seeds in a 16-team playoff host games. (not to mention NCAA tournament is a bad comparison to NCAA football tourney, we’ve been over that)

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/football/sfc/sfcfs69.htm

BYU’s big deficit, for example, was swelled by 12,923 unsold tickets. Colorado was left with 7,325 unfilled seats valued at $329,625.

Olentangy Says:
November 25th, 2010 at 2:34 PM

Gordon Gee needs to never talk about college footbal ever again.

JC10 Says:
November 25th, 2010 at 3:19 PM

Shouldn’t the bigger deal be that The Vest thinks there will be a college football playoff within 5 years? Say what you will about Gee, but OSU is a big deal in the world of college football, and when their coach says it, he probably knows more than us.