005 - CFP expansion conversation heating up 051926
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CFP expansion conversation heating up
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| 0:00.0 | And we are back, folks, here on the Michigan Insider on the Big 1050. |
| 0:02.8 | WTKA, line to big 1050.com, Sam Webb, Mr. Iver Windrop on the other side. |
| 0:08.2 | And so Ira, yesterday, we were having a conversation about playoff expansion, you know, on the heels of the college basketball, the NCAA tournament expansion, which by comparison, I mean, this doesn't |
| 0:23.8 | change the dynamics of the siege. |
| 0:26.3 | That's more to play in games, more Tuesday. |
| 0:29.5 | I would argue it changes the dynamic of February and early March, but I guess it's a sliver |
| 0:35.1 | of the- Well, okay, so relatively speaking. Yes, it's a smaller, it's still a smaller impact, but yes, it's a sliver of the... Well, okay, so relatively speaking. |
| 0:37.6 | Yes, it's a smaller... |
| 0:38.9 | It's still a smaller impact, but yes, it's definitely a smaller impact to expand the basketball by eight teams. |
| 0:46.3 | Yeah, compared to what we're talking about with college football, where this... |
| 0:53.3 | It doesn't just change the season. |
| 0:56.4 | It changes the sport. |
| 0:58.1 | We can at least say going from, which I did not like expanding from 68 to 76. |
| 1:03.7 | I thought it was ridiculous, but I don't think it changes the sport. |
| 1:07.0 | Absolutely. |
| 1:07.8 | Correct. |
| 1:08.2 | Correct. |
| 1:08.4 | The 2014 playoff changes the sport fundamentally. |
| 1:13.8 | And in an additional way that I didn't even recognize when we discussed this yesterday. |
| 1:20.1 | As I mentioned before we went to the break, checking out ESPN's lengthy piece on this. |
| 1:26.5 | And one of the statements that is forwarded several times, as if it's a foregone, |
| 1:32.8 | like this is, it's written, this is what it will happen if they go to 24 teams, is the |
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