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memyselfandi said:
"I thought you already spilled the beans earlier in this thread that you have a vote in the Top 25 poll. So of course that means you're a media person. "

No, I personally do not have a direct vote but my work can influence the poll results though I would say only slightly if any.

ATM, I already have submitted a number of scenarios for BCS playoffs since the BCS began, but it has only helped to develop my own college ranking system. But not only do we have to break the dependency on bowl games as it sits now, but we need to develop a fair method to determine who earns the right to be in the playoffs. Case in point the non-bcs conferences that actually may have a team/school that can compete with "the big boys."

Some years ago, some people thought that if Notre Dame joined a conference (the Big 10 or the Big East), that it would help spark a playoff system. What it actually would have done, not to mention taken millions of dollars away from Notre Dame, would have been to diminish the bowl games a bit by forcing the Irish to play in the Rose Bowl (typically against USC) and frankly, USC wanted no part of that idea of playing the same team twice a year for most of the years (as both teams potentially could win their respective conferences).

The BCS on the other hand forces teams into matchups even if not directly. After all there are "seeds" in the BCS for which there are guarantees. But that forces Notre Dame to win the conference in order to be guaranteed a BCS game slot. If they were to only go say, 9-3 or 10-2 then they likely would not be considered for a premium bowl game if they were in a conference whereas as an independent, they have more control to cover acceptance by many bowls and to have yearly shots at playing in games that teams with 2nd and 3rd place conference finishes do not. And, it is harder to analyze an independent when there is less consistency in who they play year to year. So, Notre Dame would rather collect all their share of a bowl game's revenue allotment than have to divide it among the rest of the conference's members as happens in every conference. The answer lies somewhere inbetween the system we have now and the lower college divisions in football but you have to convince the networks and the bowl sponsors of how it can succeed. Television will always want to be there if the money is right.