sportthink Nov 16, 2007 4:54 AM I've been promoting your blog and website, you do the best job of objectively presenting your opinions, which serve more as evidence. Nice job on the post, couldn't agree more with everything you've said, especially the part about blowing the BCS up. Here's my concern, we end up with an OSU v. LSU NC, which is pretty close to what they wanted from the start anyway. (cut and pasted my comment from Norcalfella's blog for effect)
I will make this short and sweet, but don't you folks realize this college football thing is rigged? I don't care how it ended up the way it did, but the fact is the 2 teams that are clearly not the best are playing for the national championship. If you're a realist, like myself, we all saw it coming. #### on the system for not giving Hawaii a chance. #### on the system for not forcing Ohio State to play a schedule worth a dang. #### on the system for making excuses for a team like LSU losing 2 games. #### on the system for rewarding teams like Kansas and Georgia for not even making it to the conference title game. #### on everyone who doesn't agree with me.
Come on sport, don't be to hard on Ohio State. They still need to nap at times.
You know everyweek the same thing was said. Ohio State has a real test in front of them. It looks like bakery food. Those cupcakes where scheduled by the Big Ten. I wish they played a better team week in and out. But it didn't happen. Life is too short to worry about that.
Marty - Ohio State was clearly positioned to finish in the top slot. I have less of a problem with them, but definitely can't understand how Hawaii isn't in. I mean seriously, whats the point of the playing the season if you're the ONLY team to go undefeated and you get 1 vote in both the ap and coaches. What did you think about Illinois making the Rose Bowl. I thought that kind of sucked, too. Why not a USC v. Georgia Rose Bowl? Who wouldn't watch that? Two teams that lots of people hate.
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I think that if the BCS national title game should turn out to be a dud. Then there ought to be some sort of pregame , interval and post game entertainment for the large part of the male population that'll be watching the event. And after having watched the Victoria's Secret Lingerie model soiree last night. Then what else could one ask for ? And as for June Jones talking up Colt Brennan over Tim Tebow. I'd say to June until your boys actually play anyone of consequence shut the hell up !
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If they can have the Lingerie Bowl prior to the Superbowl. Then why not have the same sort of thing featuring pretty young female underclassmen doing the same thing ? It'd sure raise the temperature and the atmosphere within the stadium don't you think ?
As for how the game will go I still believe that all LSU has to do is just play their normal game to beat the Buckeyes.
The LSU Tigers are far more athletic in apsects of the game and it'll as the game goes on.
The Buckeyes' only saving grace is that Tressel had the experience of having coached in a national championship game and won it. And that's something that one can't be said about Miles at this juncture.
Rigged? I don't know. Self fulfilling prophecy is more accurate. We went through all the scenarios to see what we would need to wind up with game x, y, or z. In that sense, yes it was preordained as the voters just adhered to the Brad Edwards' and other BCS prognosticators of the world.
While I am a BCS apologist (well relative to the traditionalists who hate it simply because it uses - wait for it - computerz!!! It would be one thing if they were pro playoff, but they're not), the system has flaws. If it's designed to determine the top teams at the end of the season, why publush weekly results? That would allow massaging and manipulation of the votes from week to week. Would people be so afraid to make Hawaii a top 10 team, if they didn't know that their cohorts had them in the lower teens all year?
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I've been promoting your blog and website, you do the best job of objectively presenting your opinions, which serve more as evidence. Nice job on the post, couldn't agree more with everything you've said, especially the part about blowing the BCS up. Here's my concern, we end up with an OSU v. LSU NC, which is pretty close to what they wanted from the start anyway. (cut and pasted my comment from Norcalfella's blog for effect)
