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Final Four or BCS Bowl???

Which would you rather for ISU?

  • BCS Bowl

    Votes: 73 61.9%

  • Final Four

    Votes: 45 38.1%
  • Total voters
    118
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jeff76

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Since we are getting close to the Final Four I thought I would pose this question. Which would you rather have? Iowa State playing in a BCS Bowl (Orange, Sugar, Rose, etc) OR Iowa State playing in a final four?

This is difficult for me. I would answer Final Four by a slim margin....BUT if the question would you rather play in the BCS championship or basketball championship I would go with BCS championship. A little messed I know.

Just wondered what peoples thoughts were on CF...
 
BCS bowl, easy.

Not only because I love football more than hoops, but it brings in more money to the athletic department.

BCS bowls = $$$$$$$$$$$$$
 
I would say final four just because at that point in your season you can still be national champion. Unless you're in the BCS championship, you have no chance at national champion.

You should make it a poll as well! Great question!
 
Definitely Final Four! As has been said, you're only 2 games away from winning the National Championship!!
 
I'd have to say final four. You get to watch your team take teams down for a couple weeks, extending your joy and elation much longer than a bowl game that lasts one night.
 
BCS game by far. More money, a LOT more national respect, and many more ISU fans to come alive or "see the light".

If the question were, "Which do you think would happen sooner?" I would definitely say Final Four because I think it will take much less time to fix basketball than it will football.
 
cstrunk said:
BCS game by far. More money, a LOT more national respect, and many more ISU fans to come alive or "see the light".

If the question were, "Which do you think would happen sooner?" I would definitely say Final Four because I think it will take much less time to fix basketball than it will football.
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Not necessarily... Look at a few years ago.

We were "this" close to going to the Big XII Championship twice. If for some odd reason we were to shock the world and beat Texas or Oklahoma in those games, we would have been in a BCS game.

I think it would be easier to win the Big XII North, with the Big XII Championship game, and go to BCS than get into the NCAA bball tournament and win 4 consecutive games, all of which may be solid competition, to get into the Final Four.
 
I am a bigger football fan than bball, so that plays some role. But if you really want to take an athletic dept to the highest of highs, a BCS bowl will do it for you.
 
I would rather see a final four-

You get undivided national attention on your school, i.e. I can remeber more final 4 participants over the last three years than BCS bowl games other than the national title game.

The way they allocate money for the NCAA BB tourney and then the conference split, I am not sure it would make a lot of difference since a lot of the gain would go to keep the respective coach that got it done.
 
BCS Bowl. On top of the money, we could come out of that as a winner and have huge momentum going into the next season. Whereas in the Final Four, you have two more opportunities to lose, and be heartbroken after getting that far (see 2000 -- Elite 8, but similar).

In basketball, there's only two D-1 teams that make a postseason tournament that win their final game.
 
Final Four no problem.

Now if you change the question to football national title game. Then I would probably go with the national title game.

But the final four you still have a chance to win it all. BCS bowl you can get blown out like Iowa vs. USC
 
Knownothing said:
But the final four you still have a chance to win it all. BCS bowl you can get blown out like Iowa vs. USC
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Or you can get blown out in the Final Four and not even make the championship.

Us being in the BCS means we either won the Big XII or we came close to winning it and absolutely dominated everyone else. I think being in the BCS is a better representative of being among the best teams in the country.

George Mason was a good story last year, but they weren't one of the four best teams in the nation.
 
It's easier for teams to fluke their way into a BCS game but you really have to earn a final four berth. To have your school one of the last four playing would be an awesome feeling. Not that it would suck to be in a BCS game but most of the focus that week is still on the national title game so maybe that would be a better comparison.
 
The focus on the Final Four lasts a week. The focus on the BCS bowl games is a full month of pure publicity.
 
EggMcClone said:
It's easier for teams to fluke their way into a BCS game but you really have to earn a final four berth. To have your school one of the last four playing would be an awesome feeling. Not that it would suck to be in a BCS game but most of the focus that week is still on the national title game so maybe that would be a better comparison.
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How do you fluke your way into the BCS when you play in the Big XII?

I think a fair comparison would be Boise State/George Mason.

Which do you think was there moreso based on the quality of the team and which was more fluke-ish?

I would argue that George Mason was more of a fluke because things like that never happen, while Boise State has been knocking on the door of the BCS for a few years now, and it was not completely unprecedented as we saw a team from a mid-major conference in the BCS just a few years prior (Utah).

While it is an outstanding story for George Mason, one that will be told years from now, it likely won't happen to them again -- and it isn't because Jim Larranaga is a bad coach.

I'm not trying to degrade their accomplishment last year because what they did was amazing, and it's still unbelievable to think of the way they took down UConn. I just think that the stars really aligned for them.
 
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