A college football playoff? UGA prez Adams blazed that trail
Regarding a playoff, Michael Adams used his bully pulpit. (AP photo)
Michael Adams was four years ahead of the game. In January 2008 the Georgia president offered a detailed plan for an eight-team college football playoff, and he believed his proposal would draw enough support to prompt discussion in the right places. Alas, his idea was hooted down at the NCAA convention later that month.
Flash forward to January 2012: Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany and NCAA president Mark Emmert conceded there might be a place for a playoff in the only sport that has resisted one, and the concept seen as fanciful in 2008 has taken on the look of a fait accompli. Obvious question: Why now if not then?
Said Adams: “I think three things have happened: The Big Ten and what’s now the Pac-12 have gotten on board; conference realignment has forced everyone to take a fresh look, and — much as I hate to give you guys [meaning the media] credit — the drumbeat from you and from the public has been constant.”
Back to the first of Adams’ three factors: The Big Ten and the Pac-12 were long the hardiest holdouts because they’d pledged allegiance to the Rose Bowl. Adams offered his proposal knowing it would meet resistance from those two conferences but believing he had the support of Myles Brand, then the NCAA president, and several key college presidents.
“I did what I did with the full knowledge of Myles Brand,” Adams said, “and I believed 35 to 40 percent of presidents felt like I did.”
What happened at the NCAA convention in Nashville? “There was a lot of pushing and shoving from the conference commissioners. … I had hoped for more encouragement from the [NCAA] board. Some of the support I thought I had backed off under pressure. It’s a lot easier to voice something in private than in public.”
That same year, SEC commissioner Mike Slive suggested a four-team playoff, with ACC commissioner John Swofford seconding, and that notion also was dismissed. It must be noted that Slive was frosted by Adams’ proposal, arriving as it did — in this newspaper, with this correspondent writing the news story — just after LSU of the SEC had claimed the BCS crown by beating Ohio State in New Orleans.
For some, the message couldn’t be separated from the messenger: Georgia had been passed in the final BCS standings by LSU and was dispatched to New Orleans not for the title game but for a ho-hum Sugar Bowl pairing with Hawaii. The belief in some circles was that the president of Georgia’s prime motivation was sour grapes.
Adams: “We got accused of it being a reaction to what had happened, but it really wasn’t. I just felt someone needed to say something.”
Four years later, many of those who turned thumbs down to Adams have joined the choir. Said Adams: “We were at the head of the train on this one.”
And now the questions: How might a playoff be staged? Will it be an eight-team tournament that incorporates, as Adams’ plan would have, the four major bowls? Guessing, he said he believes there’s “more inclination to a four-team playoff … but exactly how it would work will depend on what kind of deal there is on the Rose Bowl.”
Will the NCAA, which had washed its hands of the elephantine bowl system, step in and run the playoff? (Seeing that it runs the playoff for every other collegiate sport, it has a history.) Adams: “My own view would be to let the NCAA run it. With all [the NCAA's] warts and blemishes, it does do that better than anyone else. Reading between the lines, I think Mark [Emmert] will do whatever the leadership wants.”
With a playoff tacked on, will some of the 35 existing bowls get lopped to reduce clutter? Adams: “I think we just need to let the market work, and it is working. There may be more staying power for some bowls, but I think 25 or 30 will be in it for the long haul.”
Over his 15 years at Georgia, Adams hasn’t always been a champion in the arena of public opinion. He supported the hiring of Jim Harrick, who would leave in disgrace, as basketball coach and shoved Vince Dooley toward the exit at a time when the athletic director wasn’t quite ready to depart. But the early advocacy of a football playoff should have brought Adams a measure of absolution, and in the light of current events he stands revealed as a sage.
The temptation to gloat would seem immense. To his credit, Adams did not yield, saying instead: “Some ideas just need time to germinate.”
Germination time on this one: Four years.
By Mark Bradley
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Sonny Clusters
February 17th, 2012
11:33 am
Clusters!
Mark Bradley
February 17th, 2012
11:34 am
Clusters in midseason form even before pitchers and catchers convene. Kudos!
Rickster
February 17th, 2012
11:36 am
Dang! Second.
Rickster
February 17th, 2012
11:36 am
Well.. at least I’ll be ahead of the guy who comes in third!
George Stein
February 17th, 2012
11:37 am
Believe it was Ricky Bobby that told us that if you’re not first, you’re last, Rickster.
Sonny Clusters
February 17th, 2012
11:39 am
Said Adams: “We were at the head of the train on this one.”
Being at the head of the train is usually for a Tech man. That’s the Engineer. Usually, most UGA graduates are at the back of the train making use of their degrees from the College of Conducting which is over by the College of Welding. When we was little we would watch the trains go by the ballpark and we wondered where they were going and then Coach told us they would just follow the tracks until they got there and it made a lot of sense. If we had pursued our opportunities at Clemson we’d probably own a railroad by now.
Rickster
February 17th, 2012
11:43 am
Never watched the Ricky Bobby movies, George, so I’ll have to take your word for it.
Sad to hear of Gary Carter’s passing.
Loved his enthusiasm for the game. Hated the way he always seemed to step things up against the Braves.
Sonny Clusters
February 17th, 2012
11:45 am
Baseball is a sport for purists. We was a purist from the get-go and that’s why we don’t like designated hitters or inter-league play. We think the Wild Card ought to be done away with (like the Braves did away with it last season). We have been working out before spring training and that’s why we are getting on the blogs first right now. When spring training starts and Mark is blogging baseball every day we will be ready to make some real contributions on this blog. Here’s one to start thinking about . . . what is Dan Uggla’s screen name? Being in the movies is exciting unless one of your co-stars is a german shepherd wearing black socks. Some of those movies aren’t real good and the camera shakes. We was hoping Mark might ask Uggla about it when he sees him.
George Stein
February 17th, 2012
11:47 am
Adams’ best work has been in improving the university part of the University of Georgia.
Sonny Clusters
February 17th, 2012
11:51 am
We did some research on Fredi Gonzalez and we found out he did not even wear a cap before he got into baseball. The cap tipping started late in life for him and really accelerated last season when he seemed to be cap tipping to the Nationals and the Marlins and the Mets all the time. We are not sure he ever tipped his cap to Tony LaRussa and the Cardinals but he should have. If we was him we’d have traveled to St. Louis to tip our cap to somebody that could close a gap like that and win the “Wild Card Championship” when Schuerholz already had the little sign painted ready to hang in the outfield at the Ted.
Mark Bradley
February 17th, 2012
11:59 am
Yeah, but who cares about school stuff?
Kidding.
Starring Kam Fong as Chin Ho
February 17th, 2012
12:03 pm
I knew a Clusters once, but he was funny. Must not be related.
dean
February 17th, 2012
12:09 pm
I can’t imagine any playoff scenario not being better than the 136 (slightly exaggerated) bowls that DON’T count for anything, deal we have now.
Matt
February 17th, 2012
12:11 pm
You’re kidding, right Mark? Just because UGA got hosed by the system in 2008 doesn’t mean they were “ahead of the curve”. The only curve the State of Georgia is ahead of is that of obesity, illiteracy, etc. Ever hear of Auburn in 2004, LSU/USC in 2003, Colorado in 2001, Miami in 2000? UGA isn’t ahead of anything – if anything, they were late to the “Death to the BCS” party, but like all things with this fan-base, $hi+ never happens until it happens to us.
GTBob
February 17th, 2012
12:13 pm
The SEC has at least one guaranteed spot in the BCS title game every year. The Big 10 and Pac 12 care more about the Rose Bowl then the national championship. We are never getting a playoff.
GTBob
February 17th, 2012
12:16 pm
I can’t imagine any playoff scenario not being better than the 136 (slightly exaggerated) bowls that DON’T count for anything, deal we have now.
I am still shocked that College Football fans put up with a post season as bad as what they get. It truly is atrocious at this point.
Starring Kam Fong as Chin Ho
February 17th, 2012
12:16 pm
GTBob, “we are never getting a playoff” and that would affect you in what way?
bitter long trip
February 17th, 2012
12:17 pm
Buy you a free trip to the phillipeans adams,,,,,,,,,,butt you can’t come back for 10 years
—————-trust me dawg fans its worth the price of a one way ticket——hahahahahah
Paul in NH
February 17th, 2012
12:24 pm
“Elephantine bowl system”?
More like Byzantine bowl system
GTBob
February 17th, 2012
12:25 pm
GTBob, “we are never getting a playoff” and that would affect you in what way?
I’m a college football fan and I think it would be more exciting to watch then two random teams who may or may not deserve to be playing each other. GT and UGA neither one are going to start winning championships if a playoff comes but at least we could watch some other teams get a chance.
Funny Bunny
February 17th, 2012
12:37 pm
Maybe Elephantine is referring to The Tide.
funny...
February 17th, 2012
12:44 pm
Whole lotta dumb converging here.
Mister Pants
February 17th, 2012
12:46 pm
Yes, Adams mentioned a playoff system 4 years ago. If you want to really see where college football is heading just read the Forbes article on the Big Ten-Pac Ten collaboration. Like it or not, Jim Delaney is the godfather of college sports and what he is planning is going to change everything.
Really Haters!!!!
February 17th, 2012
12:46 pm
CMR would have two national championships if a playoff system was in effect. GTBob please don’t speak for UGA…you hate UGA and your opinion doesn’t matter. GO DAWGS!!! Suck it Matt!
Tide Rising
February 17th, 2012
12:49 pm
Seriously. You think that Georgia rightfully getting left out of the 08 championship game in favor of a better LSU team that year is the impetus behind this. Umm. No. The impetus was the big 10 and pac 12 commissioniers watching the SEC win a 6th straight title and in particular watching 2 SEC teams fight it out in a rematch for the title. You can thank Alabama for being so thoroughly dominant throughout the season that the bcs gave us a rematch, making it an all SEC affair and guaranteeing that the big 10 and pac 12 commissioners would then be ticked off and start opening up to the idea of a playoff.
Tide Rising
February 17th, 2012
12:51 pm
“CMR would have two national championships if a playoff system was in effect.”
Really? And you can prove this how considering they weren’t even good enough to finish #2 to even get into the national title game let alone win it?
KJ
February 17th, 2012
12:57 pm
LOL @ GTBlob putting NATS and UGA in the same category. Keep dreaming, buddy. If a playoff had been in place in the last decade or so, UGA would have been in the mix at least twice.
Can’t we just exclude the Big Ten/Pac10 from having any say in anything? One conference wilts when they have to face real competition (Suckeyes) and the other has to lie/cheat/steal just to stay relevant (USC).
GTBob
February 17th, 2012
12:57 pm
There is a risk for the Big 10 and Pac 12 in going to a playoff. If they give up the most prestigious football game played every year so that they have a slightly better chance at a championship then the decision could bite them. What if the SEC and Big 12 just dominate the playoffs every year? Then the Rose Bowl was sacrificed for nothing. Not that I think they should keep it because traditions like that are what ruin college football, but I can understand their thinking.
Tide Rising
February 17th, 2012
12:59 pm
2007 season. Lets see now. LSU loses to 2 bowl bound teams on the road in both games in triple OT in both games. Meanwhile UGA loses at home to an unranked S. Carolina team that did not go bowling and got blown out 35-7 by a UT team that LSU beat by 10 while playing with a backup qb. UGA had no impressive noncon win while LSU pounded VT 48-7 which ended up finishing 4th in the nation.
Any which way you look at it the 07 LSU team clearly deserved to go over UGA based upon season and accomplishment. Its not even debateable dawg fans so shut the hell up about 07.
And lets not hear any crap about LSU jumping UGA in the last bcs standings. Polls change every week and teams rise and fall all the time. Just because it was the final bcs poll doesn’t make that poll any different from the first poll of the season. Gawd you dawg fans are stupid.
GTBob
February 17th, 2012
12:59 pm
LOL @ GTBlob putting NATS and UGA in the same category.
So you think if a playoff was started that UGA would start winning national championships? Really?
Mister Pants
February 17th, 2012
1:06 pm
GTBob,
The end game of the Big Ten-Pac12 collaboration is that the two conferences (quasi super conference) will play the Rose Bowl every year as a national playoff game without the NCAA. You could very well see the SEC-ACC or Big 12 do the same thing with the Sugar or Orange as their playoff game.
KJ
February 17th, 2012
1:06 pm
Try actually reading my entire post, kid. They wouldn’t be guaranteed anything, but they’d at least be afforded a chance, and not shut out by a faulty rankings system.
dawgfan
February 17th, 2012
1:13 pm
GTBob, if Bradley writes a blog about the future of the El Paso Bowl or the Shreveport Bowl we’ll let you know. This is big boy football talk and you don’t belong here. Take a hike. UGA has more top 10 finishes in its butt crack than your joke program has had in its entire futile existence. So naturally we think we have a shot a national title. Stop the presses everybody because a bitter crybaby Tech fan disagrees!!! We’re all shocked that you don’ think highly of UGA football GTBob. Nobody ever saw that coming out of a Tech fan.
You are dismissed.
GTBob
February 17th, 2012
1:17 pm
GTBob, if Bradley writes a blog about the future of the El Paso Bowl or the Shreveport Bowl we’ll let you know. This is big boy football talk and you don’t belong here.
Your last three bowl games were The Outback, Liberty, and Independence bowls. Three completely meaningless bowls that no one will ever remember. Man I wish we could play “big boy” football like that.
Mad@change
February 17th, 2012
1:17 pm
So does the athletic association reimburse the state for the time Adams spends on football instead of improving education?
Freelemur
February 17th, 2012
1:17 pm
Michael Adams, as usual, is lying. Bernie Machen proposed the idea of a playoff a year earlier and adams was against it.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=2815940
Of course Machen was for a playoff even though Florida was winning National Championships in the current system. Adams’ “idea” came only after uga felt (wrongly) slighted for a shot at a title.
GTBob
February 17th, 2012
1:19 pm
They wouldn’t be guaranteed anything, but they’d at least be afforded a chance, and not shut out by a faulty rankings system.
They would probably have to win the SEC and I don’t see UGA doing that again for a long time.
KJ
February 17th, 2012
1:25 pm
Well, I don’t see you bringing a woman home without paying in advance for a long time… but everyone gets lucky once in a while.
GTBob
February 17th, 2012
1:34 pm
Well, I don’t see you bringing a woman home without paying in advance for a long time… but everyone gets lucky once in a while.
I’m not really the bringing women home type but thanks for your concern.
Bobo is Not the Problem
February 17th, 2012
1:40 pm
CMR would have won two championships easily if crazy folks like Saban, Miles, and Meyer would just quit working so dang hard!!!
FIRE MARK RICHT.
Bobo is Not the Problem
February 17th, 2012
1:42 pm
dawgfan, you are dimsissed, you imbecilic loser.
You are the type of Dawg fan who gives the rest of us a bad name.
Go home and never come back.
Bobo is Not the Problem
February 17th, 2012
1:42 pm
*dismissed
RxDawg
February 17th, 2012
1:46 pm
Well I guess he did… but don’t forget that UGA got hosed in 2007. We should of played for the championship that year.
dan
February 17th, 2012
1:46 pm
Quite frankly I’m tired of this whole argument. It has been dissected from every angle, and I just don’t care anymore. These presidents and conference idiots will do what they want, regardless if it makes sense or not. And they’ll justify their lousy decision making with the same tired argument of ” well the popularity of the BCS is high so why change it?”. And ESPN will continue to solely cover the major programs, regardless of whether they deserve it or not. It’s all a colossal pile of BS, with a ribbon tied around it.
However, if forced to weigh in on the decision, I think it would be wise to try a plus one format first to see how that works. The current system is set up for that anyway. I say do that for 4 years, and then if it doesn’t work then go with something else. I think anything bigger than that waters everything down. I don’t want to the college football season to be meaningless like it is in the Pro’s, but it looks like its heading that way. Also, with all these “super conferences” taking shape, I’ll go ahead and make a prediction: in the next 5 years, we’ll see a National Championship team with 3 losses.
Bobo is Not the Problem
February 17th, 2012
1:46 pm
“But the early advocacy of a football playoff should have brought Adams a measure of absolution, and in the light of current events he stands revealed as a sage.
The temptation to gloat would seem immense. To his credit, Adams did not yield…”
Give me a break, Mark. The idea for a football playoff has been around for well over 50 years. It wasn’t born in ‘08, or ‘07, or any other year in the past 50. Folks have wanted this for a loooong time.
Adams was WAY LATE to the party.
But since you were the correspondent to write the story about Adams in ‘08, I guess you feel a measure of self-importance as well, as implied by “in this newspaper, with this correspondent writing the news story”.
Maybe you would just rather play it straightforward and show us the first column YOU wrote advocating a college playoff.
RxDawg
February 17th, 2012
1:47 pm
Well if would of kept reading… I’d of seen you addressed that Mark.
RxDawg
February 17th, 2012
1:53 pm
“I knew a Clusters once, but he was funny. Must not be related.”
Ain’t gonna lie… that one made me chuckle.
What’s the big deal with the Rose Bowl? I mean I know they like to proclaim themselves as the end be all of college football history and all but come on man! It’s just a stadium. I really don’t care where the games are played, I just care about the games and the programs. It’s about time someone told those Rose Bowl folks to either get on board or get off.
Bobo is Not the Problem
February 17th, 2012
1:59 pm
Went to the SI Vault, which is difficult to search because apparently it returns articles with ANY of the search words, but does not have a function to return articles with ALL of the search words. So I searched for the exact phrase NCAA football playoff. Surely there are many more articles on the topic than I found (two), but here is the beginning of one from January 2, 1967 (http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1135432/index.htm):
“In that great two-point conversion in the sky there will no doubt be an NCAA football playoff. Until then, however, there will only be the postseason bowl games.”
RxDawg
February 17th, 2012
1:59 pm
“You can thank Alabama for being so thoroughly dominant throughout the season that the bcs gave us a rematch, making it an all SEC affair and guaranteeing that the big 10 and pac 12 commissioners would then be ticked off and start opening up to the idea of a playoff.”
Your absolutely right Tide Rising. That was about the only reason I was excited about the LSU/Bama rematch. I knew that was going to just irk to many big wigs.
RxDawg
February 17th, 2012
2:02 pm
“Really? And you can prove this how considering they weren’t even good enough to finish #2 to even get into the national title game let alone win it?”
We finished #2 in 07. But your right, you can’t make the statement that UGA would of won and call it fact. But I can say that in 02, 05, and more then any of them 07 we would of had a great shot at it. That’s also why I scoff at people who say Richt hasn’t and will never win a BSC championship. Because those 3 years were good enough to win it all in some of the other seasons.
UGA Insider
February 17th, 2012
2:04 pm
Maybe this will produce a huge job for Adams working for the NCAA or the playoff system.
RxDawg
February 17th, 2012
2:05 pm
“Any which way you look at it the 07 LSU team clearly deserved to go over UGA based upon season and accomplishment. Its not even debateable dawg fans so shut the hell up about 07. ”
That’s pretty funny coming from a Bama fan. Especially after the season you just had. I now officialy declare you a crimson blinded bafoon. Congrats!
Bucky
February 17th, 2012
2:07 pm
We like Clusters and the Dairy Queen Too!
Bobo is Not the Problem
February 17th, 2012
2:33 pm
The September 20, 1965 issue of Sports Illustrated has an interesting bracket for a national college football playoff (p. 34, “How a National Playoff Would Work”). They say “nobody would argue about who is number one.” 16 teams — all conference winners and some independents. Several favorable reader comments in subsequent issues.
T
February 17th, 2012
2:34 pm
another love kissy lovey post for uga by bark mradley. they must be paying him to write this junk. or he’s getting some best friends with benefits
dawgfan
February 17th, 2012
2:38 pm
Uh oh, has my continued criticism of a certain assistant coach hurt someone’s feelings? Anyone who calls themselves “Bobo is not the problem” needs to stop following football immediately because they know absolutely nothing about it and never will.
We will never win the SEC as long as Bobo is our offensive coordinator. Sorry pal. That doesn’t make me a bad fan. It just means I have a brain.
Thanks.
Wet Willie...keep on smiling
February 17th, 2012
3:36 pm
So says the president that believes greyshirtting is a crime yet endless arrest is just the cost of doing business! Hey Pres…STFU and have a seat. Beating Hawaii doesn’t impress many folks. UGA all bark and no bite! Ruff Ruff.
RxDawg
February 17th, 2012
3:54 pm
This is a test. I think something is wrong with the posting.
RxDawg
February 17th, 2012
3:54 pm
Hmm, guess not.
Whopper Dawg
February 17th, 2012
4:31 pm
Calling a plus one format a playoff is a stretch at best, but I think short to mid term that is all the dinosaurs can choke down.
Of they would muscle up and go to an eight team, or dare I dream, a 16 team playoff, that would be the biggest deal in sports.
NC
February 17th, 2012
4:35 pm
Michael Adams was not a “trailblazer” in calling for a playoff. College football fans have been asking for a playoff system for the past twenty-five years or more. The best playoff scenario would be a sixteen team field just like the other college divisions have had for years. Don’t make excuses about player’s getting injured, worn out and missing classes in December. In recent years many teams literally took more that a month off to practice for one game. IF the so-called top tier football programs are as good as they claim they are, then competing against the other top tier teams for four or five weeks consecutively should be welcomed to determine a true champion.
Dawgdad (The Original)
February 17th, 2012
4:49 pm
Even an Obamanation like Adams gets something right once in a long while. This was not the first time he was hooted down and will not be the last.
Facts
February 17th, 2012
5:00 pm
Michael Adams is an embarrassment and has left UGA with mediocre Sports programs.
That is a fact. He has done nothing good at UGA or the SEC in the Athletics side except to jump in front of a camera to get his mug on television at every opportunity.
Facts
February 17th, 2012
5:14 pm
This is what we should expect our SEC and ACC student athletes to be off the field.
Watch the video.
http://www.local15tv.com/news/local/story/AJ-McCarron-The-Life-of-a-Champion/uIfbXdcUR02_PUELlCLbVw.cspx
Delbert D.
February 17th, 2012
6:13 pm
I’m all for it, as long as 6 of the 8 teams are champions of the 6 major conferences. That makes winning the division during the regular season necessary to have a shot at the playoff. Every conference game is a potential elimination game.
8 team playoff
February 17th, 2012
6:36 pm
take the 4 big bowls– Rose, Sugar, Orange, Fiesta– thats 8 teams for the UGA fans. Play on NEW YEAR Weekend. 4 teams advance to the semis the next weekend and then onto the NC game 2 weeks late (+/-). Only 2 schools would be playing past the start of most winter semesters/quarters and most likely not the same schools each year. Its easy if they want it to be. Solved that problem
kral
February 17th, 2012
6:50 pm
hear this statement all the time “A play-off will ruin the regular season.” I personally think it would heighten the regular season..more opportunities at a championship…more games that eliminate teams from playoffs…ruining the regular season is a crock of espn snit
Time
February 17th, 2012
7:20 pm
Yea, the suggestion that UGA has not been good enough at all to win a NC is just usual GT/Bama troll nonsense. I can count two years where the politics didn’t align, but there were many around the country who felt UGA was the best team in the country at bowl time. Certainly, in a 4 team playoff UGA is in the mix in at least 3 years during Richt’s tenure. Don’t let reality could your little troll minds where you live in this fantasy world where UGA is not a big time power football program. I can promise you the NFL does not share your idiocy.
Good to see Adams finally got something right though.
Marty Graw
February 17th, 2012
8:19 pm
I first heard about a college football play-off in 1966. But Bradley’s pandering to all things UGA makes it sound like a recent idea. Whatever, it looks like I will live to see one of the two things I have wanted all my life but had largely given up on: A manned mission to Mars and a college football play-off.
trupert
February 17th, 2012
8:34 pm
How many MNCG blowouts would a four- eight team playoff have saved us from?
Atleast it will eliminate some of these teams who got the vote simply because their name was Ohio ST, Oklahoma, Texas, just to get blown out. Bring it on, atlast!
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Stumpknocker
February 17th, 2012
9:04 pm
@Dawgfan; No-sir your playing little boy football in a big boy league ……best case scenario, you guys are just the least from the east…….give Fla a year or two and they’ll be back to thumping you on a regular basis……sooner or later you have to admit it………your just run-of-the-mill in the SEC.
phil
February 17th, 2012
9:35 pm
Fire CMR!!
phil
February 17th, 2012
9:39 pm
Release Commings!
Stephen A. Dawg
February 17th, 2012
9:52 pm
It would be entertaining to watch the nation’s best college football teams meet in a playoff to decide a true champion. It’s a pity that there has never been a true national champion in the history of college football only mythical ones.
It also would be a drag because Georgia doesn’t have the leadership to guide it to the playoff and is stuck with a segment of idiotic, super delusional fans lead by the perhaps dumbest of them all ,TDF. This fool TDF and those like him in the fanbase, constantly makes absolutely stupid, assinine excuses to accept UGA’s mediocrity and second tier status. I congradulate morons such as them for making fools of themselves on a daily basis.
Meanwhile, when Georgia decides to cleanse the program of its current mediocre elements, it has the resources to become great again and win championships. Go Dawgs !
phil
February 17th, 2012
9:54 pm
That guy TDF is indeed a moron….
And with our coaches, we could go to a 64 team format and never win a playoff game….
Just like in basketball. Sigh.
Egbert
February 17th, 2012
10:48 pm
Adams is a lying, short, Napoleonic, megalomaniacial,opportunistic, hyperpolitical, short, empire-building, spin doctoring, credit taking, short piece of horsedung. But he fooled MB, which disappoints me.
Buzz 2011
February 17th, 2012
10:52 pm
Great job Adams!! You win a case of red panties!! Too bad Valentine’s Day has passed..
Lakedawg
February 17th, 2012
11:34 pm
Dawgfan you eat your words nexr year,, Dawgs win SEC and Bobo will be coaching the offense.
Stumpknocker
February 18th, 2012
12:49 am
“Bark Madley” is on the outside looking in at the propaganda and sensor club headed by Towers and King on the Dawg web site……….I for one hope he gets in………then I won’t be compelled to read his garbage.
boykin
February 18th, 2012
5:43 am
GORE-INTERNET FOUNDER=ADAMS-PLAYOFF FOUNDER
boykin
February 18th, 2012
5:49 am
LAKEDAWG: LETS HOPE BROTHER…IF NOT KIRBY WILL BE HERE!
Neutral
February 18th, 2012
7:50 am
Funny how bloggers put down Georgia’s win over Hawaii in the Sugar Bowl. I remember (prior to the game) the experts saying UGa had one of the toughest match-ups. They said that no team could stop the Hawaii offense. Georgia’s only chance was to put 50 points on the board and pray that would be enough. Well, UGa turned in what was arguably the greatest defensive performance in Sugar Bowl history…….and their offense poured it on too. That was an amazing performance by a Georgia team that had every reason to be flat after being snubbed for the NC game.
bill mann
February 18th, 2012
8:15 am
like big dan teague(john goodman)said in o’brother where art thou,”it’s all about the money boy’s”, look at the the falling attendance and ratings in these moribund bowl games,is why now they are talking playoff
Jim 70
February 18th, 2012
8:18 am
Four team would be perfect, not usually more than four teams contending for the “poll” selected number one. These four could play on two of the major bowls with a single playoff game. Eight would work with the four major bowls, then the four winners should be seeded and have the two highest playing at home, no wory about travel and attendance and then a championship game.
However, eight teams should be the top rated conference winners, with any independent in the top eight. Otherwise why have a full conference schedule, then a conference playoff game. That provides the best team from the conference and we are only looking for number one, not who is second or third. And yes, a ND may be ranked higher than some of the playoff teams, but they could join a conference if they want to (and split some of their tv money). Their choice, can’t have I both ways.
FLA DAWG.
February 18th, 2012
8:26 am
Tide,
I agree with your statement about ‘07 but you are off base on the second.
The Dawgs were informed they couldn’t play for The BCS because they hadn’t won their conference and that’s why LSU was catapulted above The Dawgs who had not lost that week.
Now Bama (clearly the undisputed BCS Title Winner and best team in the country) loses its conference game yet plays for The BCS Title. But a different explanation is given for that choice. HUH?
If the shoe were on the other foot Bama fans would be howling and you know it. The system is not consistent and is therefore prone to error – big errors sometimes.
To this day I cannot understand why Auburn didn’t sue for the way they were royally skrewed in ‘04.
Yet another explanation -bull!
FLA DAWG.
February 18th, 2012
8:27 am
Mark,
Pat yourself on the back a little bit lighter.
Fans all over the country have been begging for a playoff system for 10 or 20 years.
Adams couldn’t blaze a trail with a bulldozer.
Albert
February 18th, 2012
9:02 am
UGA leads the way in Georgia athletics as usual.
Spike
February 18th, 2012
9:19 am
Yawn. I stopped caring what Adams thinks a long time ago.
Ted M
February 18th, 2012
9:32 am
16 game playoff!!!!
Ted M
February 18th, 2012
9:33 am
doh…16 team playoff!!!!
Trey Mehrebutts, 3rd Generation Bulldoggy
February 18th, 2012
10:09 am
Reading this makes me think Georgia is not a university with a football team but a football school that also convenes classes during the week. Adams makes the university better (and he’s made it much better) and these clown coaches are supposed to put together the football weekends. Barking and slobbering and mooning is just UGA tradition and that’s because there is no winning tradition to fall back on. Georgia and Vandy are about equal in football now but Vandy has that great degree and that’s why players will go there to play and be educated instead of going to UGA and going to meaningless, minor bowl games as a highlight. They call me Trey because I am the third Mehrebutts.
Chris S
February 18th, 2012
10:23 am
I believe Michael Adams exists solely to rip away from me everything that brings joy to my life. Is he actually foolish enough to think the NCAA will settle for an eight-team playoff, or is he simply evil? Once the NCAA moves to a playoff system, the only way to enhance revenue is to add games, which means adding teams, and we all know the NCAA adding revenue is as sure as death and taxes. We’ll have a 32-team playoff system in 20 years. People complain about cupcake games now? Wait until Georgia-Florida becomes a meaningless game.
Beast from the East
February 18th, 2012
10:38 am
Mark,
Usually love your work, but this is just a BS article. What exactly makes Adams a “trail-blazer”? Playoffs have been kicked around my entire life (44 years). Again, what the heck did Adams do other than whine because he felt the Dawgs got slighted?
Still@theKool-aidBAR
February 18th, 2012
10:40 am
I don’t see a 15 or 16 game season. 12 regular season 1 Championship and 3 playoff games?
RambleOn84
February 18th, 2012
10:46 am
Of course Adams’ proposal was in response to what had happened to Georgie that year.
But that doesn’t mean he wasn’t right. Just like the BigWhatever and Pac12 officials are only now coming around because they realize they might not ever get another shot at a single championship game format.
Red Stick
February 18th, 2012
1:07 pm
Tide Rising hit the nail on the head about the impetus for a playoff possibly supported by the PAC12 and B1G. The all-SEC BCS title game is exactly why a playoff is a possibility now. Of course the B1G wants to have semi-final games at the higher seeds’ home stadium. Championship programs such as Alabama, LSU, Florida and Auburn have no problem going on the road to Columbus, Ohio, Ann Arbor, Eugene, Oregon, Los Angeles, etc.
I don’t see a 8 playoff system being implemented but I believe you have to take the top 8 teams whether they have won their conference/division or not.
Geaux Tigers
Rodster
February 18th, 2012
1:54 pm
Adams is a weasel and political hack. But he’s perceptive enough to know when it’s time to make a land grab and get on the bandwagon.
Tim
February 18th, 2012
3:38 pm
I wouldn’t put much faith in anything Adams says or does, Mark. You should know that by now. Every time he gets involved in sports, disasters follow… Think Harrick, Dooley, Evans, etc. The day when he, Don Leebern and their ilk are gone from UGA is the day the campus bell should continually ring as it will be one of the school’s greatest triumphs.
Dr. Phil
February 18th, 2012
5:18 pm
Adams was working feverishly to become NCAA Czar. He is not at the head of the train on anything except self promotion and expanding his bank account.
Rock Gaines
February 18th, 2012
11:13 pm
I’d pay more attention to college football if there was a playoff. I’d like to see a 6 team playoff. #1 and #2 get first round byes. #3 plays #6, #4 plays #5. The lowest remaining seed plays #1, and the other plays #2 in the second round. There are probably 6 really good teams every year anyway, so this playoff accommodates them.
The game of college football is a great game. What I don’t like is the lack of finality. The bowls are just another football game played to fatten a school’s coffers. That’s okay for the other schools not in the playoffs, but there should be minimal debate as to which team is National Champion.
To those who say that a playoff minimizes the regular season, I say it doesn’t because a team will still need to play a strong schedule and probably need to win its conference to get in.
SEC East Conference
February 19th, 2012
7:37 am
sure ga. dawgs want a college playoff that would be their only chance in winning any kind of title since they can’t win the SEC
CLARK KENT >>>>>>>.
February 19th, 2012
8:32 am
WTF you talkin’ bout, Willis….Da Dwags always win the National Championship in February…Den day gots 2 play someone in da top 20 in November and dis b da problem….Shouldn’t February count 4 sumtim…..Huh ???
Athens Bail Bondsmen R Us
February 19th, 2012
9:31 am
This is the same Michael Adams who runs the Athens Institute for Training Drunks and Thugs. What possible credibility can this bozo have?
Nativebird
February 19th, 2012
9:32 am
A playoff will and must happen for this for-profit industry to grow. Why? Because in all for profit industy’s….even with one with slave labor, growth is an absolute…..or you die. It’s a shame that this monopoly and the sleaze balls who run it will line their pockets the most from it, but the product has a demand beyond nature and ultimately the people will get what they want in the end.
Big Jim
February 19th, 2012
12:21 pm
Bradley, you are trying to make a Saint out of that slimball Adams. To bad the NCAAA found out about his character and did not make him their President and thus ridding UGA and the rest of GA of this Blight.
30326Dog
February 19th, 2012
1:21 pm
…and over the next few years we will shall see just how outstanding of a job the self proclaimed protector of academia, Mikey Adams, can maintain now the that the HOPE is leaking water and Professors have not received CoL raises for 3 years now. What a cack!
Sid
February 19th, 2012
5:32 pm
The idea of a college football playoff was propositioned and bantered about before they even had a BCS. It wasn’t his idea.
GTBob
February 19th, 2012
6:13 pm
Bob, i hope your trying to say you prefer bringing home stray animals type? I believe there is only one other type to bring home.
What do stray animals have to do with anything? I said that I don’t bring women home. I’m sorry if you can’t figure out what that means.
GTBob
February 19th, 2012
6:15 pm
The bowls are just another football game played to fatten a school’s coffers.
Most schools lose money on bowl games. If there were not conference pressure on bowl games then you would probably see several teams turn down invites.
Rilo
February 19th, 2012
8:18 pm
One thing that can be mentioned is that all four teams or eight teams will get so much extra hype, exposure, and notoriety. SO, even if your team is 4th by seasons end, many will remember who they were. I can’t even remember who the # 3 and 4 are this year. Nobody cares. this will only help football. There is no downside.
GTBob
February 19th, 2012
11:18 pm
Bob obviously your the type that prefers to bring men home.
Yep. Is there a problem with that?
LagDawg
February 20th, 2012
6:29 am
Instead of Adams worrying about a playoff, he should be more concerned with UGA’s football recruiting. Nothing was done to upgrade a very patheic OC and until that happens, UGA will continue to struggle and not bringing in the full amount of schollies will also get them in trouble down the road. Having 8-9 schollies still available after NSD will put UGA in a danger zone.
Whiskey Breath
February 20th, 2012
9:38 am
Weak attempt to pat Adams back and gain favor. The system itself brought down the current system.
The Presidents of the Universities got jealous of where the money was going, primarily to the southeast.
When it became apparent the rest of the nation was losing money, they ( The Presidents) changed their tune.
Why do you feel the need to get on Ga’s good side? Schlutz 101? You used to be 10 times better than he was. You had a opinion, and alot of times it was dead on. Now I can’t remember how many years that has been. Oh well, sucking up to the home team pays better.
lifeDawg
February 20th, 2012
11:15 am
An Alabama fan referring to Dog fans as “stupid”. An Alabama fan! LOL