It doesn’t work. It never will. One word. Playoffs.
BCS is a total Mess
Today’s View From the Bull Pen
Priorities
We have them all wrong. From constant news coverage of Jodi Arias and OJ Simpson to athletes getting mega bucks for playing a game, our sense of what is important is completely and totally screwed up. You'd think that we might have learned something from the recent events in Boston. That heroes emerge from even the most difficult of circumstances, but, no, we return to the inane and inconsequential. Amanda Knox. Film at 11.I drew this cartoon after reading the recent story about Andrew Wiggins, supposedly the "next" LeBron James, signing a letter of intent with Kansas. While Wiggins did his best to keep his signing from becoming too much of a circus, it still carried huge weight in the 24/7 news cycle. It made me think of the number of brilliant kids who will walk across graduation stages all over our country in the next few weeks, whose names are only heard as they stride forward to get their diplomas. No newspaper columns are written or press conferences held for valedictorians or honor students, but, hey, dribble a basketball and we hear all about it. Priorities. Yeah. I'd say we have them pretty screwed up.
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lsu- alabama has already been done this season. there is no need for them to play again. LSU and OSU would be a whale of a offense against a pretty stout defense. All the ink on all the pages won’t change the fact that money rules the day in the NCAA.
NO more excuses. Playoffs seem to work in every other sport in college. Its the abundance of money available to the colleges that is at the root of the lack of playoffs and until the money stops talking, thus it will be.
STrive for excellence, nothing but your best.
Gene
Drew, this O-State fan thanks you! Best toon since the Final Four! Several points on this:
>The name of the BCS’s twitter feed is #EveryGameCounts. Except, evidently, the one played just over a month ago.
>OSU Mike Gundy said it best: “Do you want to see a 9-6 game a second time or a 39-36 game for a first time?”
>The Pokes’ only loss was on the road in double overtime after an apparent good field goal was waved off the day of a plane crash that killed the schools’ two women’s hoops coaches.
>If there is a sliver lining in this, it’s that this is another nail in the coffin that will cause the superconferences to eventually rebel, break from the NCAA and form their own 4-team playoff with conference champs, and possibly give the players at least something approaching fair compensation.
>As you all may have picked up, I’m a soccer fan. Right now, the Europe Champions’ League is in the Round of 16, and one of the qualifiers is Apoel, a pro team from that powerhouse known as Cyprus. How did they qualify, you ask? by winning games on the field in a round-robin tournament. If you had let a bunch of writers, computers and coaches pick a field of teams, You can be certain that they’d just pick another traditional power that “had a stronger schedule” or “we KNOW is a better team.”
Hey, I’m with you — I would much rather have seen LSU play Oklahoma State. But the bottom line is that we’re NOT getting a playoff anytime soon. We can talk (and type) until we’re blue in the face, but it’s just not going to happen because the money involved in the bowls is too lucrative to give up. So in lieu of a playoff system, the BCS is the best thing we’ve got, and it’s certainly an improvement over the old bowl affiliation system under which LSU wouldn’t play either Oklahoma State or Alabama — LSU would be in the Sugar Bowl, Oklahoma State would be in the Orange Bowl, and Alabama would end up in the Peach Bowl or Sun Bowl or something. At least a Tigers/Crimson Tide rematch has some intrigue.
True…but intrigue we’ve already seen. It’s like if the season finale of a show was a repeat instead of a cliffhanger.
BTW, Drew – That’s one of the best Pistol Pete’s I’ve seen!
Dear Drew,
Like the swallows returning to Capistrano (hopefully spelled right) the BCS has proven their incompatence. To me this is a re-run screw-up too. Do you recall when CU won the Big 12 title yet it was Nebraska who didn’t win the game getting the championship call?
This whole fiasco could be avoided by adding a simple rule Though I think even “simple rules” would escape these jokers. The rule should be that if you don’t win you conference there is no way you can play for the championship title.
Final thought. Lets say for the sake of debate that Alabama beats LSU for the title. That means no team had gone undefeated. Can we say then for 2011 there is NO #1 team in college football?
All the best
Louis
No disagreement here from this LSU grad. I would love to see us going against OSU and believe they should have gotten the number 2 spot. As it is we will have to be satisfied with beating little Nicky twice in one year.
In my opinion if you can’t when your conference you shouldn’t be aloud to play for the title. LSU won the SEC OSU won the Big 12 Alabama didn’t win anything.