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Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Clough on football playoff: OK, if …
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
University of Georgia President Michael Adams’ proposal for an eight-team football playoff got shot down on Monday at the NCAA convention. A lot of college presidents don’t want to go down that road, and the Division I board of directors decided to not even form a discussion group on the subject.
Georgia Tech President Wayne Clough, though, is pretty much in agreement with the president of his sister institution. Both say adding a playoff should mean eliminating the 12th game of the regular season.
Here’s Clough’s take: “I am OK with a well designed playoff, but am opposed to this if we stay with 12 games. Personally I was opposed to the expansion and voted that way when I was on the NCAA Board of Directors, but surprisingly other conferences supported it. And this from a group that continues to threaten to reduce the baseball season. With 12 games and conference playoffs it will be hard to have a playoff and not extend the season well into January. When will it stop? We already have games being played into the second week. Pretty soon we are going to find ourselves with a season paralleling the pros, and this is not good, both for the student athletes and collegiate football. It does not pass the smell test.”
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