Wierd Sports Ideas

DeltaSigStan · #1 06-08-2003, 10:01 PM

This is for those who have thought of wierd but maybe possible ways to change/improve sports.

Here's Mine:

We were talking the other night, and we thought of something: In soccer (except in the USA), the two worst teams at the end of the season get relegated to the division below them, while the top two in the division below get promoted to the division ahead of them. So, next year, is Liverpool and Arsenal were to finish last, they would go from the Premier league to Division 1. Each country has their own different variation for promotion/relegation, but you can basically get the gist of it.

Now, do you think this could work in American sports? The worst teams (Padres, Tigers; Clippers, Grizzlies..etc) would be relegated to the AAA or highest minor league below the majors, and the top teams from those leagues would be promoted to MLB, NHL, or NBA.

I know this would cause venue and attendance nightmares, but it might wake teams up that normally suck into changing ways.

Thoughts?

polarpi · #2 06-08-2003, 10:04 PM

I think it's a great idea....like you said, there would be venue and attendance nightmares, but it might wake up the players, coaches, and management to work hard to make sure their team doesn't drop down to another division (especially players that b**** and moan about not being paid enough when they make more money than most professions in the US)

OrigamiTulip · #3 06-08-2003, 10:22 PM

I like that idea.

KSig RC · #4 06-08-2003, 11:28 PM

well, it is completely impossible in any major US sport - baseball is the only one with a true multi-tiered structure, and that's the sport least conducive to this sort of thing, because of the relations between farm teams and the big-league counterparts. If you move the Tigers, say, to AAA, then move up the Columbus Clippers, what happens when the Yankees need a player? Can they just call "up" a player from a team in the same league? After all, they own the rights to that player . . .

Besides, it doesn't fix the problems associated with losing - if anything, it would drive fans away to have a AAA team instead of having the Yankees et al coming in for 2 series a season.

steelepike · #5 06-09-2003, 03:12 AM

It is a great idea but to get it in place here a major overhaul of the system in place would need to be done. This just like Communism looks good on paper but the practical world just isn't ready for such things.

DeltaSigStan · #6 06-09-2003, 03:14 AM

Any else got some weird sport ideas?

#7 06-09-2003, 11:55 AM

What i would like to see, to make the NBA Finals more interesting is this.

Take the top eight teams from each conference, and seed them one through 16 based on records. This year, SA would have been the number one seed and Dallas would have been number 2. Then play the same rounds, but i think that doin it this way will ensure a more competitive finals (even though while i'm saying this, my SPURS are in a dogfight with the Nets)

ANOTHER one we NEED is a NCAA D1 football playoffs. What I'd like to see happen is the following. Baylor leaves the Big XII and goes to CUSA. Arkansas moves to the Big XII, VTech goes to the SEC, Miami, Syracuse, and BC move to the ACC, Utah and BYU join the Pac Ten, and Notre Dame joins the Big Ten(leven).

Take away all of the meaningless out of conference games that teams play. Make all 6 of these conferences split into 2 divisions and play a championship game. The six champions get automatic bids to the playoffs. You then take the next highest 2 ranked teams, whether they be independants, from Mid-Major conferences, or big conference runner ups and they get bids.

Play the first round games at 4 existing bowl sites, for example the Cotton, Fiesta, Gator, and Alamo bowls. The semifinal games and final game would rotate between the 3 major bowls, the Orange, Sugar and Rose. The remaining bowls could be kept, and could be filled with teams that didn't make their conf. championship games but still qualified for post-season play.

That would all happen, in Kitso's perfect world.

Kitso
KS 361 years before the NCAA will make that much sense

DeltaSigStan · #8 06-09-2003, 01:52 PM

I like both of those ideas. In terms of bowls, until the suits decide football is more important than profits, you can expect a bunch of worthless bowl games and BCS controversies

madmax · #9 06-09-2003, 02:18 PM

NFL. When a game goes to ot, I think both teams should get the ball on offense.

moe.ron · #10 06-09-2003, 03:05 PM

I like to see a six pointers from the half-court in the NBA.

For the NHL, if score is tie at the end of the game, that is it. No OT. Of course this does not applies to playoff games.

DeltaSigStan · #11 06-09-2003, 03:27 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Arya
I like to see a six pointers from the half-court in the NBA.

For the NHL, if score is tie at the end of the game, that is it. No OT. Of course this does not applies to playoff games.

That would be cool to see them take half courters the last couple minutes.

As a soccer fan, I HATE TIES!!!!! And for an NHL game to at least attempt to break a tie is good.

moe.ron · #12 06-09-2003, 03:43 PM

I think a the result of a game should be the result. Call me a traditionalist. A tie means both team does not deserve the win or the loss.

It'll be interesting (though I would never like to see it) to see soccer having unlimited substitution.

#13 06-09-2003, 07:38 PM

In hockey and basketball i'd like to see overtime go the following way. At the start of the first OT, you take one player off of each squad. i.e. Basketball goes to 4, hockey goes to, however the hell many they have minus 1.

I'd like to see them keep removing players as the overtime periods drag on. I think in hockey this would especially be waaay more interesting. One of the things i like about Olympic hockey is that the rink is bigger and i think you see more skill play. It'd be cool to reach the 4th overtime in basketball and have a one-on-one full court situation for 5 minutes

Kitso
KS 361 times the NFL needs to adopt college football overtime rules

DeltaSigStan · #14 06-09-2003, 08:30 PM

That reminds me. I think that having NBA and NHL size courts/rinks are hurting us when it comes to international play and increases sloppy boxed in play. Making the dimensions the international regulation size would open up play.

Betarulz! · #15 06-10-2003, 01:16 AM

After watching the Women's College World Series on ESPN a couple of weeks ago, I think that they should make the fields in fast pitch softball bigger. I actually thought it scary to have face a pitch from only 45 feet away.

I read somewhere that some pitcher for the US National team had been pitching to some All-stars from MLB at softball distances and so far she had struck everyone she'd faced out.

I think female athletes have outgrown the size of current softball fields...I mean 9 year old little leaguers pitch from 45 feet, why should adult women do the same?