Not sure exactly what to do, but as this is the 4th year this site has been up at this domain, with nary a tweak in terms of the actual plan, I’m pretty well established as the creator of this “plan”. Heck, I published this plan for a few years before even setting up the site. But once again, Yahoo’s Dan Wetzel is claiming this as his “Wetzel plan”, which happens to be exactly the same as mine, and publishing it on Yahoo.com as his own. This is the second year in a row he is claiming my plan as his own, and it is very frustrating. But what can you do when someone steals your content? It isn’t hard for him to find me, since this site comes back #1 on Yahoo for anyone searching for “college football playoff system”. It’s not even like he had to review a lot of sites to come up with his plan. Find the #1 ranked site on Yahoo, copy it, and claim it as his own. What’s not to love about that? Oh well… maybe I’ll change the name to the Weasel plan, since that is what his version seems like. One simple line of credit would resolve all of this, and I’d join forces with him to promote this excellent “solve all problems and give us a great pplayoff system” plan.
Enough sour grapes from my end… we have some big games coming up this weekend!
And Dan, next time you’re here checking out my site, drop me a line at joe.rozsa@bcsfootballplayoffs.com. I’d like to chat! -Joe
Thank you for the comment Bobby. I'd like to think that my plan posted has resolved the bowl questions, as every team that is currently in a bowl game will still be in a bowl game, most even in the same bowl game. The bowl games would still be played the same days they are now, with the exception of those during the same time as the playoff games that would move to accomodate TV.
With my plan, there is still lots of football on New Year's Day, the bowl season still gives people a chance to follow their team to a meaningless exhibition that is the bowl game – but we also have important games and a chance to settle the championship on the field. This is similar to the basketball tournament and NIT, with the bowl games being a much more popular version of the NIT. There would be so much money around for this plan, I don't know how it hasn't already been accepted and implemented. I don't see, and have never received a comment pointing out, any flaw in my proposed system.
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Bobby said,
December 8, 2009 @ 10:11 ami have loved this plan for a long time, but have always seen one flaw….bowl purists!….and thus have come up with a way to appease them. Imagine if you will this promo "Welcome to ESPN Bowl Week, where EVERY game counts!" thats right every game, The human element of even picking at-large teams is gone.
The plan: for starters, same as yours (11 conference champs receive auto bids to the NCS-National Championship Series)…and 5 at-large bids are awarded. These at-large bids are obtained by A) getting a bowl-bid, B)winning bowl game, and C)after winning bowl game during the one week bowl season a ball is placed with school logo in a lottery pool.
5 RANDOM bowl winners are selected in the NCS Lottery selection show to conclude bowl week. Thus, rather than a playoff format de-emphasizing the bowl tradition, it RE-emphasizes the importance and the honor of reaching them.
I would be interested in knowing others viewpoints on this my name is Bobby and i can be emailed at gswerf@yahoo.com