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Playoff Expansion seems inevitable, my money was not on 12 teams
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<blockquote data-quote="Froggish" data-source="post: 3018239" data-attributes="member: 71860"><p>I actually don't think playoff expansion helps CFB's middle class which is where TCU squarely falls. CFB success is 99% about Recruiting/Talent Acquisition and Money aka Resources. Virtually everything comes back to those two things. Especially at the sports highest levels. So when considering an expanded playoff, you have to ask yourself who in todays landscape will expansion improve their recruiting pitch the most and who will get the most cash influx?</p><p></p><p>1. Recruiting / Talent Acquisition - TCU's pitch hardly changes at all. Its had access to the playoff 9 years. It literally can't say anything to a recruit that it couldn't already say other than now we'll get our shot when we have a great season. Its ok but it isn't altering in front of a 5 star and his family. You were probably already saying that.</p><p></p><p>-Now, if you're BlueBlood that always recruits in the top 15-18 (BCR +45/50 type teams) you can look at a recruit and say, come here...we'll be in the playoff conversation EVERY year. I can virtually guarantee you we will play in the playoff...</p><p></p><p>-G5..Yup, you just drastically altered their pitch and in doing so guess who's pocket those G5s are going to get their best recruits from? Guess where the TV money they began to glean is going to come from? Not Bama and the SEC.....It will be TCU's, PAC, B12 ETC. If your a solid G5 program (There's about 10) you can now say, we can get in, you don't have to go TCU, Baylor, Ok St, or Neb, you actually have a better chance at a playoff here than those schools. We play 2-4 decent teams a year. Finishing undefeated will be way easier. Guess what else, since we now access to the playoff, television money is now going to come calling. We are going to sink all of that into our facilities and they'll be as good as any in the country. Oh yah...and you'll be a King here! Start right away..blah blah..The point is this gives a G5 team the same ammo that a middling P5 team has and many will erase and surpass low level and middling P5 programs in recruiting and performance. </p><p></p><p>2. Money / Resources - Give me a break we already know the SEC is going to get richer. They are going to get 4 team in almost every year (They've avg 1.25 in a 4 team era) and that will be a massive financial haul.....Same with the Big 10 who will get another 3 in most years,</p><p></p><p>So now you have - Notre Dame in most years, and one G5 Team almost every year. If you counting that takes 3 conf champs and 6 at larges bids off the board... That mean the ACC, B12, and PAC will literally only get their champs in......</p><p></p><p>So tell me again how playoff expansion is good for TCU? It isn't. Its not necessarily bad either. It maybe better for football as a whole. It also probably stabilizes the B12. Certainly no reason to expand now..but the reality is we aren't any closer to playoff game than we were. Nothing really changes for TCU.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Froggish, post: 3018239, member: 71860"] I actually don't think playoff expansion helps CFB's middle class which is where TCU squarely falls. CFB success is 99% about Recruiting/Talent Acquisition and Money aka Resources. Virtually everything comes back to those two things. Especially at the sports highest levels. So when considering an expanded playoff, you have to ask yourself who in todays landscape will expansion improve their recruiting pitch the most and who will get the most cash influx? 1. Recruiting / Talent Acquisition - TCU's pitch hardly changes at all. Its had access to the playoff 9 years. It literally can't say anything to a recruit that it couldn't already say other than now we'll get our shot when we have a great season. Its ok but it isn't altering in front of a 5 star and his family. You were probably already saying that. -Now, if you're BlueBlood that always recruits in the top 15-18 (BCR +45/50 type teams) you can look at a recruit and say, come here...we'll be in the playoff conversation EVERY year. I can virtually guarantee you we will play in the playoff... -G5..Yup, you just drastically altered their pitch and in doing so guess who's pocket those G5s are going to get their best recruits from? Guess where the TV money they began to glean is going to come from? Not Bama and the SEC.....It will be TCU's, PAC, B12 ETC. If your a solid G5 program (There's about 10) you can now say, we can get in, you don't have to go TCU, Baylor, Ok St, or Neb, you actually have a better chance at a playoff here than those schools. We play 2-4 decent teams a year. Finishing undefeated will be way easier. Guess what else, since we now access to the playoff, television money is now going to come calling. We are going to sink all of that into our facilities and they'll be as good as any in the country. Oh yah...and you'll be a King here! Start right away..blah blah..The point is this gives a G5 team the same ammo that a middling P5 team has and many will erase and surpass low level and middling P5 programs in recruiting and performance. 2. Money / Resources - Give me a break we already know the SEC is going to get richer. They are going to get 4 team in almost every year (They've avg 1.25 in a 4 team era) and that will be a massive financial haul.....Same with the Big 10 who will get another 3 in most years, So now you have - Notre Dame in most years, and one G5 Team almost every year. If you counting that takes 3 conf champs and 6 at larges bids off the board... That mean the ACC, B12, and PAC will literally only get their champs in...... So tell me again how playoff expansion is good for TCU? It isn't. Its not necessarily bad either. It maybe better for football as a whole. It also probably stabilizes the B12. Certainly no reason to expand now..but the reality is we aren't any closer to playoff game than we were. Nothing really changes for TCU. [/QUOTE]
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