Video: Should Division II Overhaul the Playoff System? - with Mike Racy

[IUPNation]

Do all these conferences really feel that hosting a playoff game is more important than competing in the field of 28?

Your conference obviously feels that being home in every game in the playoffs is their right…

[Runnin' Cat]

By taking a stance that a majority of the posters don't agree with and continuing to engage? It's the same thing Skip Bayless does, gets his watchers so frustrated with him that they take to social media and drive engagement. I guess every forum needs it's Skip Bayless to drive conversation!! And just like with Skip, I can't tell if you actually believe everything you say, or if you are picking some of your points solely to drive engagement!! So, thanks Skip!

I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

[Predatory Primates]

This is part of why a compromise is going to be needed. We can talk about ideal brackets all we want, but ultimately these things don't generally get completely revamped. It's always incremental changes.

You are probably right.

[Predatory Primates]

Not at all. You all think you can change the world like a bunch of dirty hippies! They found out the hard way too.

:-)

But good luck getting the NE10, Pee Sack, MEC, GMAC, CIAA, SAC and the SIAC to give up potential playoff bids and more importantly their hosting chances through four rounds in the current format so certain area of the D2 map can get what they want and dominate even more. More power to you if you can sell that. I can’t imagine they would view it as an improvement but it’s worth a try right?

It has been illustrated here how a change to the FCS system would do none of the things you are fear mongering about above. Not sure why you are still selling when nobody is buying. At least change your sales pitch.

The current system will change at some point. I guarantee it. It may get worse. It may get better? NCAA is glacial as it's made up of academics with no sense of urgency, but change is coming for sure.

[GorillaTeacher]

This is part of why a compromise is going to be needed. We can talk about ideal brackets all we want, but ultimately these things don't generally get completely revamped. It's always incremental changes.

Do all these conferences really feel that hosting a playoff game is more important than competing in the field of 28?

[EastStroud13]

But good luck getting the NE10, Pee Sack, MEC, GMAC, CIAA, SAC and the SIAC to give up potential playoff bids and more importantly their hosting chances through four rounds in the current format so certain area of the D2 map can get what they want and dominate even more. More power to you if you can sell that. I can’t imagine they would view it as an improvement but it’s worth a try right?

This is part of why a compromise is going to be needed. We can talk about ideal brackets all we want, but ultimately these things don't generally get completely revamped. It's always incremental changes.

[Ram040506]

2021 FCS style bracket

Oh come on, Shepherd is undefeated against GV!

[IUPNation]

I don't even know what this means lol.

Yes you do.

[IUPNation]

You sound nervous.

Not at all. You all think you can change the world like a bunch of dirty hippies! They found out the hard way too.

:-)

But good luck getting the NE10, Pee Sack, MEC, GMAC, CIAA, SAC and the SIAC to give up potential playoff bids and more importantly their hosting chances through four rounds in the current format so certain area of the D2 map can get what they want and dominate even more. More power to you if you can sell that. I can’t imagine they would view it as an improvement but it’s worth a try right?

[IUPNation]

By taking a stance that a majority of the posters don't agree with and continuing to engage? It's the same thing Skip Bayless does, gets his watchers so frustrated with him that they take to social media and drive engagement. I guess every forum needs it's Skip Bayless to drive conversation!! And just like with Skip, I can't tell if you actually believe everything you say, or if you are picking some of your points solely to drive engagement!! So, thanks Skip!

It could be both. I hate when forums become affirmation circle jerks. Somebody has to shake it up a bit with viewpoints not popular.

[WBChargerDad]

He just likes to wind it up.

Are you talking about IUPNation, or Skip? LOL

[EastStroud13]

Why?

Because I think the difference between seeds 5 through 8 in D2 is mostly arbitrary, particularly when cross-country travel during the regular season is limited. So that extra flexibility allows quadrants to be a little more geographically compact than they otherwise would be, without significantly imbalancing the bracket.

[KleShreen]

Ok Hoggie.

I don't even know what this means lol.

[Predatory Primates]

By taking a stance that a majority of the posters don't agree with and continuing to engage? It's the same thing Skip Bayless does, gets his watchers so frustrated with him that they take to social media and drive engagement. I guess every forum needs it's Skip Bayless to drive conversation!! And just like with Skip, I can't tell if you actually believe everything you say, or if you are picking some of your points solely to drive engagement!! So, thanks Skip!

He just likes to wind it up.

[Predatory Primates]

We can sit here and debate all we want and come up with different plans but in the end the NCAA isn't going to do a damn thing. It's their tournament...

They aren't going to spend a penny more than they already do and they don't care about a level that barely gets a blip in the media.

It's going to stay regional, the money saved on not having to fly teams in the East justifies the NCAA in keeping it they way they do and giving us our allotted slots.

I bet in their eyes, if you don't like it, you have choices.

Then you have conferences that have literally no reason to give up what access they have to appease a vocal minority. I know how that feels being on the vocal minority end.

Unless there is more money and the haves can talk the have nots to give up their chances...what you see is what you are getting for the time being.

You sound nervous.