Michigan AD says playoffs are more likely in the future

I think most college football football fans can agree when I say "amen" when a university president, AD, or coach publicly advocates some sort of playoff system. Really, any kind of playoff scenario is better than this BCS travesty.
Pictured at right is Bill Martin, the University of Michigan's AD.

BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF. - Add Michigan athletic director Bill Martin to the list of folks who are viewing some sort of playoff as growing more likely after yet another college football season ending in controversy over the Bowl Championship Series.

"I'd say it's better than 50-50," Martin said when asked how he viewed the chances of the BCS adding at least a post-bowls title game, sometimes called a plus-one playoff model, in the next four years: "A little bit (better)."

But Martin, speaking at Lawry's restaurant with Rose Bowl officials a few feet away, quickly added he didn't want the Rose Bowl to be diminished.

"This is a unique tradition," he said. "We don't want to lose it from a part of the fabric of college football. This is an important deal."

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