00:00Do you believe that there's too much control by the television networks when it comes to selecting these college football
00:07teams to the tournament?
00:08And the reason I position it this way is that, listen, Fox, ABC, CBS, plus ESPN, boy, I'll tell you,
00:20getting the brands in seems to be a major issue right now for those teams who want to get people
00:25like Notre Dame in.
00:25Too much control with the television networks and not really putting the right teams into the playoff.
00:31Do you think there's too much control there or not?
00:33I don't know.
00:36I'm not sure if it's the TV thing.
00:39You know, obviously you want to see Notre Dame because they draw big numbers.
00:45You know, even if they're not as good as, you know, past seasons, they were 11-0, whatever, people still
00:57watch Notre Dame.
00:58And, you know, that's why if we get a chance at CBS to do as a game, we take it
01:04from two years ago.
01:06I think it was 60, I think it was real thrillers.
01:08But it's still true rating, you know, so, yeah, rating is a big part of it.
01:13But, you know, it's a playoff and, you know, I don't begrudge those guys what they come up with.
01:18I don't know that they necessarily watch every play of every game like they claim.
01:24I don't think that's possible.
01:25But, you know, they're the ones that are pulling the strings right now more than TV, I think.
01:31Do you like the way the committee selects teams?
01:34And do you think a team like James Madison and Tulane, you've got a different set of standards, Brad, for
01:40those teams, those non-power five.
01:42And then you sit around and you're trying to tell me you're putting the best college football teams in the
01:4712-team playoff.
01:48Tulane and James Madison are not two of the best teams in the country.
01:53Where's your take on this?
01:57I think they're trying to make it a little bit more like the NCAA basketball tournament in that a Cinderella
02:02can somehow emerge.
02:03And it's probably never going to happen.
02:05It's going to take a perfect game by one of those kind of teams against a team that's, you know,
02:10a power five team, I think, to ever get to the next level until somebody wins one of those games.
02:15And then you can make the argument, hey, they belong.
02:17Tulane belonged.
02:18James Madison belonged.
02:20No, they probably didn't belong.
02:22I like the fact that, you know, you're going to give those guys a crack at it and expand to
02:2716 teams, you know, to have a crack at it, try to get through the first round of the playoffs.
02:35But it's going to be the same 10 teams every year that are going to win the national championship, if
02:39you ask me.
02:39Now, people will say, yeah, well, you didn't say that about Indiana two years ago.
02:43Okay, that's true.
02:45But for the most part, you know, it's going to be Alabama, Texas, and New York, Miami, and whoever.
02:52It's always going to be the top rungs of those teams.
02:55And that's the way it's going to be unless they – when they expand, they will expand.
03:00I don't know if it's going to go past 16.
03:03I think the 24 ideas – and I shouldn't say this because I think it's Tony Petiti's idea, and he's
03:08a former CBS guy, and I'm a Big Ten guy now.
03:10But I don't think 24 is – that's too many, I think.
03:14I mean, what we need to do is we need to start the season a week earlier, and we need
03:19to have the national championship like right around New Year's like it used to be.
03:23Get rid of the conference championships out the window.
03:27You don't have to wait 28 days in between games to play.
03:30You can play the next week unless you get a first-round buy.
03:33There's so many ways they could make the situation a lot better on everybody and still expand.
03:39So unless they come up with a plan like that, expansion's not going to work that well either.
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