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No, I'm not kidding: 'College Football Playoff' replaces BCS
April 23, 2013 5:23 pm ET
PASADENA, Calif. -- College Football Playoff?
Really? That's the new name of the four-team playoff? The commissioners spent years designing the new setup that debuts after the 2014 season. Looks like they took about two minutes to name it.
What ? Games To Be Played Annually To Decide Champion (GTPATDC) was taken?
Wow, when the BCS commissioners hinted they the name of the playoff was going to be fairly mundane, they weren't kidding. CBSSports.com's Jeremy Fowler confirmed the name Tuesday afternoon. Little did we know that would be something so inoffensive that only a loaf of white bread could be upset.
The BCS is dead, long live the CFP? Those initials are about as far away from BCS as you can get, which was kind of the point. But, gosh boys, don't put us to sleep.
The apparel and marketing possibilities are ? not immediately evident. We're not exactly talking Louisville Adidas gear here. Besides, the Certified Financial Planners may want to have a word. So might Division FCS, II and III who staged their own college football playoff but were never savvy enough to capitalize. That's essentially what the commissioners did. They kept it so vanilla that the ice cream is dripping down the cone.
Credit goes to Premier Sports Management, which apparently pocketed a nice, tidy fee for coming up with something that could have been randomly selected on a Ouija board.
As for conspiracy theorists, fire away. ESPN has been the ?registrant?' for the domain name collegefootballplayoff.com since 2003. College Football Playoff was trademarked on March 28, according to al.com. The ultimate irony is that the new name couldn't be copyrighted without use of the old one -- BCS Properties LLC.
The commissioners' intent was to get as far away from the initials BCS as possible. Over the years, the acronym had been abused so often by critics it needed a bodyguard. CFP now lies out there like a carcass ready to be picked apart.
"Yep, it's made with bits of real panther, so you know it's good."
-Brian Fantana
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Grammar... The difference between feeling your nuts and feeling you're nuts.
The name "College Football Playoff" isn't all that interesting, but considering the debacle of Leaders & Legends, I'm ok with them just describing what it is instead of trying to come up with some fancy name that tries to accomplish the job of satisfying millions of fans and 100+ teams and fan bases across the country. When it comes down to it, as long as they didn't call it the BCS, the name was going to be fine. I'd rather them spend more time figuring out how the committee is going to be better at picking four teams than 100's of people picking two teams. The polls are terrible, but I'm not sure how a committee will be any better.
Agreed about the name. A better one will surface via crowdsourcing anyhow, as in March Madness to describe the tournament. Really what they should concentrate on is making it awesome. The tournament is so awesome that you just have to say the tournament and everyone knows what you are talking about. Get the product right and the packaging will take care of itself.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- LSU leading running back Jeremy Hill, already serving two years' probation in connection with a 2011 arrest, was arrested again early Saturday morning after allegedly punching another man in the side of the head outside a Baton Rouge bar near campus.
Hill, who pleaded guilty in January 2012 to misdemeanor carnal knowledge of a juvenile, is now charged with simple battery, also a misdemeanor, East Baton Rouge Parish District Attorney Hiller Moore said.
Moore said it was too early to speculate on how the latest arrest might affect Hill's probation, and that it was not yet clear whether he'd be charged in city court or state district court.
''When we get a copy of the report we'll take a look, and if we feel the need to take appropriate action in court, we will, but that will be driven by the facts, and again, he's presumed innocent,'' Moore said. ''Assuming he's found guilty, which is a big assumption, then obviously he'd be in violation of his probation.''
Kelly and LSU officials could not immediately say whether Hill had an attorney, and Hill could not immediately be reached for comment.
LSU spokesman Michael Bonnette said coach Les Miles was at the NFL draft in New York on Saturday and would not comment until he returned to Baton Rouge and spoke with Hill.
Hill, 20, was LSU's leading rusher with 755 yards and 12 touchdowns in 2012, his freshman season. His college career was delayed a year after he was arrested in early 2011 for an alleged sexual assault on a 14-year-old girl. He pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor and was able to enroll at LSU and play football last season, emerging as the Tigers most effective running back after season-opening starter Alfred Blue's season-ending knee injury.
Baton Rouge police spokesman Don Kelly said police responded at 2:15 a.m. to a call regarding a 20-year-old man who said he was knocked out in a fight in a parking lot. A witness who had made a video recording with his mobile phone also contacted police and shared the recording. Kelly said the recording showed a man that appears to be Hill punching the victim, who was then punched again, and knocked to the ground by a second suspect whom police have not yet identified, and who remains at large.
Police found Hill on campus and arrested him.
Grammar... The difference between feeling your nuts and feeling you're nuts.
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