Well the PAC-10 & Big Ten get what they deseve if this article is correct.

[cobalt1999]

Hey, USC. If you want some respect, you're not going to get it by beating up on Big Ten teams in the Rose Bowl.


www.sportingnews.com/yourturn/viewtopic.php?t=245876

Pac-10: We'd leave BCS over plus-1

LOS ANGELES -- Pac-10 commissioner Tom Hansen, who supports bowl games and opposes a playoff system, told Sporting News Thursday his league will walk away from the BCS if the plus-one playoff model becomes a reality.

This offseason alone, conference commissioners from the SEC, ACC, Big 12 and Big East have said they are intrigued by the plus-one model -- which would provide a championship game between the two highest-ranked teams after the bowl games -- and might be open to implementing such a plan when the new television contract is negotiated sometime over the next year.

The model, however, will go nowhere without Pac-10 and Big Ten support.

"Our presidents have no interest whatsoever in a plus-one model -- none," Hansen says. "It's a little annoying that my colleagues continue to float this idea as though it has merit. If they continue to push it, and try to push us into a corner ... "

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The BCS could begin negotiations for a new deal -- which could be as short as four years or as long as eight, depending on the system in place -- by next spring. That deal would begin with the 2010 season.

Hansen's comments are yet another blow for playoff proponents. In May, Florida president Bernie Machen's playoff proposal was defeated roundly by his fellow Southeastern Conference presidents -- to the point that Machen proclaimed at the end of the league's spring meetings that the BCS was, "a very good way to go."

"(SEC presidents) are persuaded, and I am now persuaded, that the best way to proceed is to try to work within the BCS structure, to make some changes to make it better," Machen said.

[madinmaryland]

1. The "plus-1" is bullshit. Only a true playoff will solve the issue.

[cobalt1999]

2. I figure that "plus-1" is the first step to a playoff.

If they aren't willing to go that far, then a playoff will never happen.

I'll never understand why the Rose Bowl between the PAC-10 and Big Ten is more important than even a "plus-1"

[Condem]

4. The playoff will never happen, cobalt.

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

[hughee99]

3. USC might have had a shot at the national championship

with a plus-one playoff. As they seem to be a team that's usually playing it's best at the end of the year, I can see why USC anyway, might be in favor of it. It might let them get away with the 1 big upset they find (almost) every season.

I'm sure it's all about the money ("sanctity of the Rose Bowl" my ass), but for real relevance, the Rose Bowl has National Championship importance 1 every 4 years as the final game. With a plus-one system, it could have NC implications (like an the AFC/NFC championship game) almost every year as long as the Pac-10 or Big-10 is in the hunt. And this way, you can ALWAYS have the Big 10 and PAC 10 winners.

I'm not sure this system is THE way to go, but I don't see why they'd dismiss it out of hand.

[rpannier]

5. Let's see

They already play 12-13 games a season

Then a bowl game

Then a National Championship Game.

Screw that!

If I was a shoo-in First round draft pick I wouldn't want to take the chance and wind up like McGahee. A sure Top 5 pick who got seriously injured in a single post season game. Then watched his millions, as well as a possible Hall of Fame career probably short circuited.

This +1,4, 8, or 16 team post-season BS does little-to-nothing for the players and extends their season to almost NFL proportions.

[cobalt1999]

6. So, make the season 10 games.

Each BCS team pads their schedule with a couple of cupcakes each year anyway. Take those away. The downside is the little schools balance their budgets by scheduling those money games, so they would suffer badly.