Stoops wants BCS/bowl system tweaked, not overhauled
Published: 4/24/2012 8:09 AM
Last Modified: 4/24/2012 8:09 AM
Three takeaways from Bob Stoops' interview on the Tim Brando Show Monday...
1 – Stoops doesn't want a full-fledged playoff for college football, but he would like to see a plus-one model adopted.
"You have four teams that are classified as playoff," he told Brando. "I hope they'll have those four teams play in two of the BCS bowls. And then you rotate every other year which two of the BCS bowls has the four teams. The other two bowls can be the other champions of leagues or whatever, as we've been doing. That way, at the BCS bowls you get a week-long experience, and the other bowls can stay in place.
"And then the last game is a week later, and you just go in two nights before the game. The week-long experience, you've already had your bowl game. Now we're playing the national championship. You go in on Thursday and play Saturday. Maybe you're playing on a Wednesday and you go in Monday. You're there for a day. You get your meetings. Boom, you play Wednesday night.
"That way, the bowls have a chance to survive. And maybe it enhances some of the other bowls…
"This formula would keep the value of the regular season and the bowls. But if you go to a whole playoff, now that's gone. That wouldn't be good. I don't care what anyone says. The value of our regular season is why there's such great interest in college football."
2 – Those who saw Trey Metoyer at the Red-White Game and figured it didn't matter that the kid had been on campus a couple months, he needed to start the 2012 season at wide receiver, were right.
"I'm confident that Trey is going to have a huge impact for our team this year," Stoops told Brando. "He doesn't play like a young guy. He has more competitiveness and maturity than most young people when they first get out there."
3 – Chalk up another reason Stoops might just be a college coaching lifer.
"I think college is influencing the pros. Everyone always thinks the pros are influencing us," he said. "The spread and no-huddling and quick screens, that stuff has been around here for 10 years. We've been facing it for more than 10 years. No, I think some of the NFL teams have been watching all of the stuff across college football and they've implemented some of that.
"I'll promise you, they don't have all the ideas. There's as much influencing going the other way, college to the pros, as their game down. I've had Sam Bradford tell me. He's been quizzed by more than one or two coordinators on how we did our no-huddle, and they implement some of it. That's just one example."
-- Guerin Emig
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Guerin Emig
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