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"You play oakleyraybanclearance New Year's Eve, and the championship will be played on Monday the 8th, 9th or whatever it ends up being. That's an expensive venture. What are we going to do for those families, let alone the fans?" Smith said. "I worry about the parents of the athletes. They're going to be in a box. I think we need to continue to talk and see if there's a strategy we can put in place legislatively to do something for them. . . . I don't know if it's discounted hotel rooms or something of that nature. We've just got to figure something out." That, he said, was one reason for his and the Big Ten Conference's original preference for staging the semifinals on the home fields of higher-seeded teams. When it became clear that option wouldn't fly, they went with the majority wholesale ray bans sentiment for semis in rotating bowls. The national title game will be put up for bid. Sentiment is strong, too, to keep the playoff at four teams. With more comes a greater chance of overshadowing the regular season, diluting meaning and interest in much the same way the NCAA tournament has basketball's regular season. A set of 12-year contracts will hold off any near-term push for expansion. "I think there's going to be that (clamor for expansion)," Dooley said. "But I hope whoever's making those decisions will hold fast and not let that ray ban sunglasses sale happen."