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<blockquote data-quote="topdecktiger" data-source="post: 129412287" data-attributes="member: 1459051">Why does that baffle you? Football can't be scheduled the same way as basketball. You can play 2 or 3 games in one week in basketball. In basketball, you have rounds 1 &amp; 2 on Thursday/Saturday (or Friday/Sunday). Then rounds 3 &amp; 4 the next week, and so on. Can't do that in football.Then you have the problem of logistics. You only have 12-15 players on a basketball team, but you have 60-80 (that travel) on a football team. It's a lot harder to book hotels with that many players on one team. You also have to fill a stadium with 60-80,000 fans every week, whereas you only have to fill 10-20,000 for basketball.You also have the issue that the football playoffs are played in bowl games. That means you lose several weeks in December which could be used for the playoffs. You could have some, or all, of the playoffs outside the bowls. However, good luck getting the conferences to give up the money that they make off of the NY6 games. That's one of the problems. The individual conferences make so much money, and don't have to share it with other leagues, that they don't want to give it up.That's true, but the problem isn't with the process. The individual conferences could just give the bid to the regular season champion, and solve the problem.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="topdecktiger, post: 129412287, member: 1459051"] Why does that baffle you? Football can't be scheduled the same way as basketball. You can play 2 or 3 games in one week in basketball. In basketball, you have rounds 1 & 2 on Thursday/Saturday (or Friday/Sunday). Then rounds 3 & 4 the next week, and so on. Can't do that in football. Then you have the problem of logistics. You only have 12-15 players on a basketball team, but you have 60-80 (that travel) on a football team. It's a lot harder to book hotels with that many players on one team. You also have to fill a stadium with 60-80,000 fans every week, whereas you only have to fill 10-20,000 for basketball. You also have the issue that the football playoffs are played in bowl games. That means you lose several weeks in December which could be used for the playoffs. You [I]could[/I] have some, or all, of the playoffs outside the bowls. However, good luck getting the conferences to give up the money that they make off of the NY6 games. That's one of the problems. The individual conferences make so much money, and don't have to share it with other leagues, that they don't want to give it up. That's true, but the problem isn't with the process. The individual conferences could just give the bid to the regular season champion, and solve the problem. [/QUOTE]

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