@ChrisVannini To refer back to your earlier point about overusing replay, sports also have all of these arbitrary rules for how its allowed to be used that we end up getting it used all the time but then also have these situations where it can’t just fix something.
@ChrisVannini Would the end of football games be more or less exciting if a trailing team got to finish its drive regardless even after the clock expired?
@AndyStaples I’m not sure a lockout would even hold up in court if players don’t collectively bargain, and I don’t think the same people who cant agree on a playoff size would be able to agree on locking out players anyway
@ChrisVannini@BunchFormationP@davidubben I agree with what youre saying the rationale will be but I feel like youre letting them off the hook when you say there’s no room on the schedule. Needing 7 home games a year and therefore 2 buy games is still a choice.
@AriWasserman “Why should we play Notre Dame when it could be our fifth loss and keep us out of the playoff?” -USC fans by the third year of the 24 team playoff.
@ChrisVannini In that scenario you could also do 10 conference, 2 non con, and 1 buy game, and power 4 teams would have exactly 7 home games each year (as opposed to 15 over 2 years).
@ChrisVannini My (probably unrealistic) solution would be to go to a 13 game season if conference championship games get eliminated, so teams could either play 9 non conference, 2 p4 out of conference (which allows a rival plus another series) and 2 g5 home games.