Mark Cuban is pretty adamant about this playoff deal.
About mid-December, Cuban told ESPN Dallas that he was considering an idea for an alternative playoff system to determine a national champion in college football.
About a month later, that idea began to take on some tangible qualities as Cuban wrote in his personal blog that he had approached Oregon and TCU about a potential plus-one format.
Well, here we are another month later and, surprise, Cuban has taken another step toward creating a playoff.
Cuban has confirmed that he’s created a limited liability company called Radical Football to “impact college football so that the last two teams playing are the best two teams.”
According to the article in the San Diego County Tribune, Radical Football was registered on Dec. 28 in the state of Texas and has at least one person working for it, Brett Morris, a former digital media consultant and promotions coordinator for Notre Dame athletics. The company still does not have a website and Cuban would not comment as to how many employees he has working on the project.
Cuban has been open to several ideas regarding the format of the playoff, as was evident by Morris’ appearance at SDSU’s International Sports MBA Case Competition at the San Diego Yacht Club. MBA students from 10 universities competed and had one day to develop a viable postseason alternative for college football. The schools were SDSU, USC, Notre Dame, Texas, Florida, Georgetown, UCLA, Duke, Oxford and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.