College football has been around for 142 years and finally may have found a system that works to identify a National Champion (Rosenberg, 2014). As sports fans, it is natural to want a particular team to be identified as the best team in any sport. In college football, in some way that is a different story. There are bragging rights among schools for a year and traditions that are to be held for historic programs such as; Alabama or Notre Dame. Believe it or not, college football may have finally gotten it right after suffering through 15 years of the Bowl Championship Series (BCS).
College football over the years has picked the national champion in the wrong manner by using a flawed system. The BCS was chosen to help with the National Championship game and unfortunately not a popular choice among fans. Fans have argued that the BCS is unjust and a playoff system would be the best scenario to help decide who the real national champion really is. The BCS has their own advocates to keep it around and not use the playoffs. To keep using the BCS would gravely damage the history of college football.
It is best to begin by describing what system college football used first to decide their champion, the BCS. The BCS decided who would play for the National championship by using a combination of polls and computer selection methods (Murphy, 2014). This method has been considered unfair by fans all across the nation, especially the smaller tier schools. The BCS would favor the larger power conferences (ACC or SEC) over mid-major conferences (Mountainwest or WAC) which would result in a team from the SEC finishing 11-1 going to the championship game over a WAC team that finished 12-0. This would take away the integrity of the s...
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...came upon a final decision to bring about a playoff system that would include all conferences and schools, big or small. In the long run, fans will hopefully be happy with this change and enjoy the same type of tournament that is enjoyed during March Madness.
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In basketball, the National Championship game is the dream of every kid that plays basketball in college. NC State’s basketball team wasn’t well known in 1983. Jim Valvano was the coach and he knew he had a great group of kids. When they won the ACC tournament against the great Ralph Sampson and Virginia, people thought that the win was just luck and they probably wouldn’t make last when they got into the tournament. Throughout the tournament, NC State kept surviving and advancing. In Johnathan Hock’s documentary “Survive and Advance”, Hock uses stock footage of the games that were played during the tournament, different points of view from the players, and the sequence of the documentary to prove that NC State’s basketball team were the underdogs during the whole tournament; however they were able to win despite their adversity
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To better understand the original question put forth, we must first define a few key terms. The NCAA is the National Collegiate Athletics Association. The NCAA has the final ruling in all matters of conduct in college sports. In short, it controls almost every aspect of athletics in college sports. The word sanction means: to penalize, especially by way of discipline. When the NCAA puts sanctions on a program, they do one of many things, such as, take away scholarships, take away championships, or just make the school’s program shut down all together. When a program is shut down all together, it is called the “Death Penalty”. In many instances in today’s time, the “Death Penalty” just forces teams to not play in bowl games, but in 1986, it was a different story, it meant two whole seasons forfeited by one of the best teams in college football.
Your perspective may be in full agreement with any of the others, in partial agreement, or wholly different. Whatever the case, support your ideas with logical reasoning and detailed, persuasive examples. Every time the month of March rolls around, there is always some sense of hype in the air. That’s when the nation’s best college basketball teams compete against each other. It is as celebrated with each college being its own celebrity.
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The Southern Methodist University football scandal, also known as Ponygate, was one of the most severe consequences that the NCAA has ever given out to a college or university. In this instance, the Southern Methodist University football program was found to be illegally paying their players after already being in trouble with the NCAA several times. The first time this football program had been caught by the NCAA for not following its rules was in 1985. This was when an incident regarding offensive lineman Sean Stopperich came up. Prior to transferring schools after going through an injury which made him unable to play, he was paid $5,000 by one of the Southern Methodist Universities booster programs to attend the school and play football there. This caused “the NCAA to place SMU on three years of probation in 1985, limit its postseason appearances, ban the boosters involved and strip the football program of 45 scholarships.” This did not show the program or the school a lesson though. Again in 1986 the Southern Methodist University football program was found breaking NCAA rules. This was their seventh time they had broken and been caught breaking NCAA rules. This time it was found that, “an unnamed booster had been found to have paid 13 Mustang players $61,000 from a slush fund with the approval of key members of the SMU athletic staff.” The result of this complication with NCAA rules is what became known as the, “death penalty”. This death penalty declared that there were to be, “no football in '87. only seven games in '88. no television or bowl appearances until 1989 and restrictions on off-campus recruiting and the number of assistant coaches until 1989 SMU which signed no high school players to letters of intent this winter...
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Over the past 20 years, there has been a major increase in the popularity of college athletes. From 1989 to 2004, there was a 27% increase in ticket revenue (Brown). Despite the rigorous schedules the athletes had, they are still considered just a student. The NCAA cannot continue to allow these schools to work the athletes as much as they do without giving the athletes what they deserve. This is a horrible oppressive system that must be fixed.
...l playoffs should be expanded from 4 teams to 8 teams because: it gives more teams a chance to compete, it makes the schools more money for school funds, and it gets the players more NFL attention and more help. These players are trying to make a career out of what they love the most and that is football. By expanding the playoffs they will have a better and longer career. Also schools will be able to buy more supplies, hire more teachers, or do whatever they want with the money the playoffs will make them. The 8 team system will really benefit the smaller less hyped and less well known schools because the 8 team system should allow a small school or 2 in every year and so that would help their players receive more attention. So I ask you this question again: Wouldn’t it be easier to pick your favorite 8 types of candy instead of just your favorite 4 types of candy?
College basketball is full of heart, hustle and the sheer will of wanting to win every single game while in the NBA a loss does not matter to the extent it does in college basketball. When it comes to playoffs in the NBA is nowhere close to as serious and fun to watch as March Madness. March Madness is either win or you die. While the NBA you have seven chances to win four games, with this you lose a certain degree of competition. If you have one chance one shot at winning the national championship the amount of heart and effort that individuals put into the game is so noticeable higher that it is hard to explain. With several March Madness game ending in low score margins that change every few seconds and often games ending with game winning three pointers or half court miracle tosses. When it comes to the comparison of NBA and College Basketball College wins without a
...ofessional sport and every other collegiate sport uses a playoff system to determine it’s champion, the importance of the regular season is reduced. Since the inception of the Bowl Championship Series system, only once has a team lost more than one game and reached the Bowl Championship Series National Championship Game. With such little margin for error, each game is of great magnitude and brings an increased level of excitement. If college football used a playoff system to determine it’s champion, regular season games would become less important; therefore making them less exciting.
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The NCAA is a global, and well-known company that regulates collegiate sports with thousands of universities across the country. The NCAA organizational assessment shows its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats relative to all competitors. In this current market environment, I assessed and prioritize what strengths and weaknesses were most important and which strengths have to continue to grow and what weaknesses needed to be mitigated. It is tough for the NCAA to have great competition due to the fact that it is far beyond any competitions and doesn’t seem to show any sign of slowing down soon. Issues, whether political or ethical, or whatever the case may be, as long as the NCAA continues to analyze its “SWOT” then they will always be the leader in the current market
The ball soaring towards the basket; flying all the way from half-court. Bang! The ball slams off the backboard and plunges onto the rim as 70,930 people fall into shock. Will the impossible happen? Unfortunately for the upstart Butler Bulldogs, Gordan Hayward's desperation heave at the buzzer of the 2010 NCAA National Championship game was 3 inches off the mark, allowing perennial power Duke to walk away with their fourht National Championship. However, Butler's magical run shows why the NCAA Tournament is such a great event and why it does its job as a fair way to decide the National Champion. Meanwhile, three months earlier, Boise State is stuck at home, wondering what could have been as they watch Alabama and Texas get the opportunity to play for the National Championship. Boise State was undefeated. The BCS system, which decides the two teams who get to play for the title in college football, is considered by many to be iniquitous and believe the sport should switch to a playoff format similarly to what is used in college basketball.