BCS to leave FOX for...ESPN?

[Mets82]

I was on awful announcing.com and they had a story about the BCS moving from FOX to ESPN. Here's the article link from sportingnews.com. The BCS moving would be huge news moving from FOX to ESPN. I never really liked BCS on FOX. I mean they don't show games ALL year and then they show the BCS Title Game. Well, anyway, here's the link.


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[BillD1984]

I was on awful announcing.com and they had a story about the BCS moving from FOX to ESPN. Here's the article link from sportingnews.com. The BCS moving would be huge news moving from FOX to ESPN. I never really liked BCS on FOX. I mean they don't show games ALL year and then they show the BCS Title Game. Well, anyway, here's the link.


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I hope this isn't true.


CBS or NBC would have been better, IMO.

 

[Rey]

I hope this isn't true.


CBS or NBC would have been better, IMO.

i would rather not have it on NBC due to their poor HD with sports. Very noisy at times. wouldn't mind it on cbs though.

 

[SamCdbs]

This has been coming since the illegal BcS cartel started playing after New Years Day. The suits killed a wonderful day of 4 to 6 meaningful bowl games and replaced it with a sting of regualr work-a-day night games on the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and I think it now goes to the 8th or so. Other than the "championship" the other games are just consolation contests, played in basketball season, that are no more interesting than any other regular season game.

Its not to late to go back to what worked.

 

[anders5189]

This has been coming since the illegal BcS cartel started playing after New Years Day. The suits killed a wonderful day of 4 to 6 meaningful bowl games and replaced it with a sting of regualr work-a-day night games on the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and I think it now goes to the 8th or so. Other than the "championship" the other games are just consolation contests, played in basketball season, that are no more interesting than any other regular season game.

Its not to late to go back to what worked.

I don't think the Fiesta Bowl wants to go back to a 1PM kickoff and I know the Orange Bowl and Sugar Bowl don't want to air opposite each other anymore. You want to make these games more meaningful? Create a playoff. Otherwise the Rose Bowl is a meaningful as the Tournament of Roses parade.

 

[Jimbo]

National Championship Game is January 8th this year ...
That makes it a Thursday night, thats never happened before.

 

[BillD1984]

This has been coming since the illegal BcS cartel started playing after New Years Day. The suits killed a wonderful day of 4 to 6 meaningful bowl games and replaced it with a sting of regualr work-a-day night games on the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and I think it now goes to the 8th or so. Other than the "championship" the other games are just consolation contests, played in basketball season, that are no more interesting than any other regular season game.

Its not to late to go back to what worked.

Agreed! :up

 

[Mets82]

I'm surprised so many people agree with me about the BCS. I'm a firm believer that all the games should end on Jan. 1. Go back to the way it used to be. Maybe not everyone will like it but if FOX, the BCS or anyone else tinkers with the already flawed BCS system, the BCS Title game won't be played until February!!!

 

[Jimbo]

I'm surprised so many people agree with me about the BCS. I'm a firm believer that all the games should end on Jan. 1. Go back to the way it used to be. Maybe not everyone will like it but if FOX, the BCS or anyone else tinkers with the already flawed BCS system, the BCS Title game won't be played until February!!!

I look for it to eventually be between the NFL playoff and the Super Bowl week.

Hope not, but you never know, 51 days off since your last game gives you a very poor game.
47 if a Big Ten team were to get into it this year, and they even had a week or two off during the season.

Jimbo

 

[SamCdbs]

You can have bowl game, or playoffs, not both. Most of these misguided playoff schemes involve something like "make this that and the other bowl the quarters, and so on until the Rose Bowl is the final." It will not work.

- It will destroy the greatest regular season in sports.

- Fans, particularly in states w/o pro sports, base their holidays around a SINGLE mid-winter trip to a bowl game. They are not and cannot travel on six days notice during regular work day weeks three or four times.

- People in the pro cites these games are played in are not going to pay what bowls charge to see a quarterfinal game in mid-December.

Go back to what worked. End the season on New Year's Day and get out the round ball.

 

[salsadancer7]

Personally, I do not care WHO gets it as long it does not go to cable/satellite. There are still millions of people in this country that still have neither. I mean does EVERYTHING have to go to PAY Television now. IT just goes to show that the NCAA(among OTHER sports) does not give a rats ass about the fans of the sport. They exploit these kids to no end making money off of THEIR hard work. YES, they get a free education and YES it is worth alot, but if you compare the universities and conferences get in return....it's not even in the same zip code.

 

[HD MM]

National Championship Game is January 8th this year ...
That makes it a Thursday night, thats never happened before.

Jimbo, National Championship games have taken place on a Thursday before (See: 2002). And more to the point, in the last 10 years, 9 times has this game fallen on a week night.

January 7th, 2008- (OSU/LSU): Monday
January 8th, 2007- (Florida/OSU): Monday
January 4th, 2006- (Texas/USC): Wednesday
January 4th, 2005- (USC/Oklahoma): Tuesday
January 4th, 2004- (LSU/Oklahoma): Sunday
January 3rd, 2003- (OSU/Miami): Friday
January 3rd, 2002- (Miami/Nebraska): Thursday
January 3rd, 2001- (Oklahoma/Florida St.): Wednesday
January 4th, 2000- (Florida St./ Virginia Tech.): Tuesday
January 4th, 1999- (Tennessee/ Florida St.): Monday

 

[Mets82]

Jimbo, National Championship games have taken place on a Thursday before (See: 2002). And more to the point, in the last 10 years, 9 times has this game fallen on a week night.

January 7th, 2008- (OSU/LSU): Monday
January 8th, 2007- (Florida/OSU): Monday
January 4th, 2006- (Texas/USC): Wednesday
January 4th, 2005- (USC/Oklahoma): Tuesday
January 4th, 2004- (LSU/Oklahoma): Sunday
January 3rd, 2003- (OSU/Miami): Friday
January 3rd, 2002- (Miami/Nebraska): Thursday
January 3rd, 2001- (Oklahoma/Florida St.): Wednesday
January 4th, 2000- (Florida St./ Virginia Tech.): Tuesday
January 4th, 1999- (Tennessee/ Florida St.): Monday

And how many of those games were actually good games?

 

[Paul Wozniak]

I really don't care which network carries the BSC (BullShit Championship)

 

[Jimbo]

Jimbo, National Championship games have taken place on a Thursday before (See: 2002). And more to the point, in the last 10 years, 9 times has this game fallen on a week night.

January 7th, 2008- (OSU/LSU): Monday
January 8th, 2007- (Florida/OSU): Monday
January 4th, 2006- (Texas/USC): Wednesday
January 4th, 2005- (USC/Oklahoma): Tuesday
January 4th, 2004- (LSU/Oklahoma): Sunday
January 3rd, 2003- (OSU/Miami): Friday
January 3rd, 2002- (Miami/Nebraska): Thursday
January 3rd, 2001- (Oklahoma/Florida St.): Wednesday
January 4th, 2000- (Florida St./ Virginia Tech.): Tuesday
January 4th, 1999- (Tennessee/ Florida St.): Monday

I just wish they would do the SMART thing and play one on a Saturday night, so everyone can STAY UP and see it, everyone always has to work the next day.

Actually make it always on Saturday nights ... you would have more people able to travel to it as well.
Friday night would be my second choice.


Jimbo

 

[Mets82]

Some of the games mentioned above were lousy or just plain boring games. Just go back to ending the games on Jan. 1. I'm still surprised about how many people feel that way but I think it's the right thing to do. I mean check this out from MattSarz who does a hell of a job, :http://mattsarz44017.tripod.com/2008/bowls.html.

I mean the GMAC Bowl is after the Fiesta Bowl and before the BCS Title Game. I didn't know that the GMAC Bowl had such a rich tradition to be place between the Fiesta and BCS Title Game. To me, I would be pretty damn insulted. I mean, first the games go on forever and by the time the BCS Title Game happens your worn out, and now they place bowls before and after the major bowls. This has to stop.
If you want to have bowls up to Jan. 1, fine. Have a million of them. I don't mind it because a) I don't plan to sit and watch every single bowl game and b) The games that I or you watch, some of them are actually pretty good. It's just the placement of the games is the problem that I have.

 

[Jimbo]

Some of the games mentioned above were lousy or just plain boring games. Just go back to ending the games on Jan. 1. I'm still surprised about how many people feel that way but I think it's the right thing to do. I mean check this out from MattSarz who does a hell of a job, :http://mattsarz44017.tripod.com/2008/bowls.html.

I mean the GMAC Bowl is after the Fiesta Bowl and before the BCS Title Game. I didn't know that the GMAC Bowl had such a rich tradition to be place between the Fiesta and BCS Title Game. To me, I would be pretty damn insulted. I mean, first the games go on forever and by the time the BCS Title Game happens your worn out, and now they place bowls before and after the major bowls. This has to stop.
If you want to have bowls up to Jan. 1, fine. Have a million of them. I don't mind it because a) I don't plan to sit and watch every single bowl game and b) The games that I or you watch, some of them are actually pretty good. It's just the placement of the games is the problem that I have.

Your right about the GMAC bowl, first it's an add on bowl game for the MAC and whoever else,it use to be before the 1st of the year then last year or the one before that they decided to move it in between major bowls.
I think like you do, majors Jan 1 and soon after and everything else before Jan 1.

Jimbo

 

[SideshowBob]

I just wish they would do the SMART thing and play one on a Saturday night, so everyone can STAY UP and see it, everyone always has to work the next day.

Actually make it always on Saturday nights ... you would have more people able to travel to it as well.
Friday night would be my second choice.

Except Fri and Sat nights are horrible nights for TV ratings. Why would FOX (or ESPN or whomever is broadcasting the game) put it on a night where they are likely to hurt the ratings? They want to maximize the number of people watching.

To achieve, a more sensible solution would be to broadcast it in early evening (east coast time) on Sunday like the Super Bowl.

 

[anders5189]

To achieve, a more sensible solution would be to broadcast it in early evening (east coast time) on Sunday like the Super Bowl.

I think the NFL might have something to say about that.

 

[SideshowBob]

I think the NFL might have something to say about that.

???? I didn't say broadcast it on the Super Bowl day, I said broadcast it on a Sunday at a time similar to the Super Bowl (usually kicks off ~6:30pm ET, right?). That would put it on a night when people are home to watch and still make it early enough for folks to stay up for the whole game.