April 29, 2005
Changes in BCS made
The BCS adopted several rules changes Wednesday. The rules generally deal with the evaluation of conferences that receive automatic BCS bids. All current BCS conferences will be judged on their performance from 2004-2007 based upon what their membership will be in 2008. In other words, the 2004 seasons for Louisville and Boston College count for their new conferences.
The conferences will be judged over those 3 years based on:
1. the average BCS ranking of the league's highest-ranked team
2. average BCS ranking of every team in the conference
3. the number of teams in the top 25
Five to seven leagues will get an automatic bid for the 2008 and 2009 seasons with a committee having the power to add other conferences by considering market size, tradition, T.V. ratings and ticket sales history at bowl games.
Notre Dame will now receive an automatic BCS bid if they place in the top 8 in the BCS poll. The Irish will be considered for a bid if they finish in the top 12. Notre Dame will also now received $4.5 million for playing in a BCS game and $1 million when they don't. This is a change from the previous arrangement in which the Irish received $14 million for a BCS appearance and no cash otherwise.
A conference champion from a league without an automatic bid will also get an automatic BCS bid if that team finishes in the top 12 or if it finishes in the top 16 and is higher ranked than the lowest-ranked champion from a BCS conference.
Comments:
Jeff said:
posted on April 30, 2005 11:38 AM — 24.197.126.228 — link — abuse?
I've heard alot of people bashing ND getting the $1 million for not playing but look at the larger issue. They're only getting $4.5 million now when they actually make the game instead of the $14 million they got before for making the game. If Notre Dame made a BCS game every year for 4 years under the old arrangement it would be $56 million to the Irish. If they made it 4 staight years now it would be $18 million. If they made the BCS once in 4 years it would be a payout of $7.5 million which is still alot less than the $14 million they would have gotten for 1 BCS appearance in 4 years under the old arrangements.
I'm far from a Notre Dame fan but people are getting wrapped around the axle about the $1 million a year without considering the rest of the details.
Scott Steady said:
posted on May 5, 2005 5:06 PM — 216.248.169.69 — link — abuse?
Notre Dame sucks. It's bad enough that people around the nation are force fed their terrible games all year long on NBC, but now these schmucks are getting paid not to participate in the BCS? Who pays the BCS to sit around and come up with this garbage? How much would they charge to implement a real national championship tournament?
Scott said:
posted on May 5, 2005 5:07 PM — 216.248.169.69 — link — abuse?
Notre Dame sucks. It's bad enough that we are force fed their terrible games all year long on NBC, but now these schmucks are getting paid not to participate in the BCS? Who pays the BCS to sit around and come up with this garbage? How much would they charge to implement a real national championship tournament?
LuckCharms said:
posted on May 7, 2005 4:31 PM — 69.248.78.142 — link — abuse?
Notre Dame is an independent (it does not belong to a conference). Most conference schools that go to a BCS bowl have to SHARE their $14 million with the other schools in their conferences. For example, if a PAC-10 school gets to a BCS bowl, it gets like $1.4 million, not the entire $14 million (the top ranked school gets the same amount as the bottom dweller). Most conferences have the same deal. Now if you consider that Notre Dame getting $4 million all to itself when it goes to a BCS bowl AND $1 million when it sucks, well how is that fair?
Maurice said:
posted on May 9, 2005 11:33 AM — 208.17.179.33 — link — abuse?
ND sucks anyway. But overall the BCS plan seems far
b/c if ND was in major Conference ND would recieve around 1.4 million. ND is not the issue.The real issue is The Big East. TBE is on a secret probation. The Big East must finish strong for the next 3 years or it will be reduced mid major and loose its automatic bid. I believe the TBE will expand in the near future for TV Market purposes only.
posted on June 12, 2005 5:20 PM — 69.73.43.133 — link — abuse?Ben Prather said:
As for the 1 million thing, the conferences usually split the money anyways. An SEC team not going to a BCS Bowl gets money from the (Usually) 2 SEC teams that got in. If Vandy usually gets 1 million a year from the BCS, why not Notre Dame?
Every one in the MWC got 1 million this year thanks to Utah. I think most will agree that Notre Dame was better than most of those teams.
Personally, I really don't care where the money goes, lets just play the games already.
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Greg said:
posted on April 29, 2005 7:20 PM — 216.170.58.10 — link — abuse?Let me get this straight. Notre Dame will get $1 million for not playing in a BCS game. Why do they get a million dollar paycheck every year? They could go 0-11 and make $1 million. That is just WRONG!