Need to do Playoffs like Basketball

[HoosierJimbo89]

Making playoff games a home game for one team and not making tickets equally available for both teams is BS. The playoff games should be at a neutral site, and tickets should be available for everybody. This is the way the men's basketball tournament is, and it's this way for a reason. Tickets never should have been $500-$1,000. Not to mention the weather. Why does ND get a home game when their one loss was to a MAC team, IU's loss was an away game at #2, and the SOS for both teams was identical? I'm guessing because they are ND.

Lucas Oil would have been the perfect venue for the ND/IU game. If IU still loses, whatever. It just feels like college football gave the historical power an unfair advantage to help keep the rich rich and to further a self serving argument. I'm definitely pissed because I stayed at home due to not wanting to pay over $500 for a ticket: it's not like this happens every year. A playoff team shouldn't be at a worse advantage than if they would have just went to a bowl game.

 

[ButHerEmails]

Making playoff games a home game for one team and not making tickets equally available for both teams is BS. The playoff games should be at a neutral site, and tickets should be available for everybody. This is the way the men's basketball tournament is, and it's this way for a reason. Tickets never should have been $500-$1,000. Not to mention the weather. Why does ND get a home game when their one loss was to a MAC team, IU's loss was an away game at #2, and the SOS for both teams was identical? I'm guessing because they are ND.

Lucas Oil would have been the perfect venue for the ND/IU game. If IU still loses, whatever. It just feels like college football gave the historical power an unfair advantage to help keep the rich rich. I'm definitely pissed because I stayed at home due to not wanting to pay over $500 for a ticket: it's not like this happens every year. A playoff team shouldn't be at a worse advantage than if they would have just went to a bowl game.

I thought about that. And why is it just the first round games? The games starting next week are all neutral sites, are they not?

 

[HoosierJimbo89]

I thought about that. And why is it just the first round games? The games starting next week are all neutral sites, are they not?

As far as I know, the remaining playoff games are neutral sites.

 

[Hatchets7times]

My guess is ..It will change to all neutral sites in the coming yrs...

 

[Hoosiers Rising]

Too big of an advantage IMO.

 

[iueyedoc99]

FWIW the National NCAA VB tourny is played on home courts until the final four.

 

[kraft cheese+macaroni]

Making playoff games a home game for one team and not making tickets equally available for both teams is BS. The playoff games should be at a neutral site, and tickets should be available for everybody. This is the way the men's basketball tournament is, and it's this way for a reason. Tickets never should have been $500-$1,000. Not to mention the weather. Why does ND get a home game when their one loss was to a MAC team, IU's loss was an away game at #2, and the SOS for both teams was identical? I'm guessing because they are ND.

Lucas Oil would have been the perfect venue for the ND/IU game. If IU still loses, whatever. It just feels like college football gave the historical power an unfair advantage to help keep the rich rich and to further a self serving argument. I'm definitely pissed because I stayed at home due to not wanting to pay over $500 for a ticket: it's not like this happens every year. A playoff team shouldn't be at a worse advantage than if they would have just went to a bowl game.

I’m pretty sure the men’s basketball tournament is the only college championship where home games are not part of the equation. And certainly home games are part of the equation and every single professional sport. I think it’s just sour grapes. I think the excitement and electricity around these campus playoff games so far has been fantastic. It sucks that I couldn’t afford to go, but frankly, traveling to a neutral site would’ve probably cost more. I think there should be even more home games than there are right now.

 

[Walt542]

FWIW the National NCAA VB tourny is played on home courts until the final four.

As is the soccer tournament.

 

[TMFT]

All neutral sites would make some sense but there’d be major expense involved because who knows where you could get sent. And they want full stadiums all the way through the playoff.

From a weather perspective too, I’d be interested in proposals.

On one hand, I’d like to incorporate more traditional bowls into the CFP because they’re so devalued by the expanded CFP and they were already devalued by having so many of them anyway. On the flip side of that, it seems like a lot of the lower tier bowls that aren’t in gimmick locations (like Bahamas bowl) are in outdoor locations that could be not great weather anyway.

Anyway, I don’t hate it being on campus sites. That’s how it is in the NFL and every other level of the NCAA. I’d like to see a more equitable ticket allotment because that was expensive yesterday and it’s a big ask of people (home & away).

 

[Walt542]

All neutral sites would make some sense but there’d be major expense involved because who knows where you could get sent. And they want full stadiums all the way through the playoff.

From a weather perspective too, I’d be interested in proposals.

On one hand, I’d like to incorporate more traditional bowls into the CFP because they’re so devalued by the expanded CFP and they were already devalued by having so many of them anyway. On the flip side of that, it seems like a lot of the lower tier bowls that aren’t in gimmick locations (like Bahamas bowl) are in outdoor locations that could be not great weather anyway.

Anyway, I don’t hate it being on campus sites. That’s how it is in the NFL and every other level of the NCAA. I’d like to see a more equitable ticket allotment because that was expensive yesterday and it’s a big ask of people (home & away).

I do not disagree with you on the tickets but how do you then handle the season ticket holders. I would be really pissed if IU got to hold a CFP game but they denied me, a season ticket holder, my ticket because the visiting team wanted it.

 

[HoosierJimbo89]

College football bowl games have always been at a neutral site, as far as I know. College baseball plays the CWS at Omaha. True, earlier stages are hosted by one team in the college baseball tourney. But, at least it is a series. If there are home games, then a series makes more sense.

Part of the charm of the men's basketball tournament are underdogs and upsets, which are embraced. It appears the opposite is embraced for college football.

 

[TMFT]

I do not disagree with you on the tickets but how do you then handle the season ticket holders. I would be really pissed if IU got to hold a CFP game but they denied me, a season ticket holder, my ticket because the visiting team wanted it.

You’re right. Guns or butter dilemma I guess.

They’d probably do it based on a lottery or priority points or something. Which would screw me for sure. And I’d be pissed too. lol!

 

[kmathum]

As is the soccer tournament.

Other sports don't matter. Football pays the freight. And all of the playoff teams should be on equal footing. It's that important.

 

[YOTHN]

Making playoff games a home game for one team and not making tickets equally available for both teams is BS. The playoff games should be at a neutral site, and tickets should be available for everybody. This is the way the men's basketball tournament is, and it's this way for a reason. Tickets never should have been $500-$1,000. Not to mention the weather. Why does ND get a home game when their one loss was to a MAC team, IU's loss was an away game at #2, and the SOS for both teams was identical? I'm guessing because they are ND.

Lucas Oil would have been the perfect venue for the ND/IU game. If IU still loses, whatever. It just feels like college football gave the historical power an unfair advantage to help keep the rich rich and to further a self serving argument. I'm definitely pissed because I stayed at home due to not wanting to pay over $500 for a ticket: it's not like this happens every year. A playoff team shouldn't be at a worse advantage than if they would have just went to a bowl game.

Yeah. If there were no byes, then the top 4 seeds played home games vs the bottom 4....there's logic there. But a 9 seed playing at an 8 is wildly unfair.