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DEL.ICIO.USShould the fans get what they want?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Warning: This blog is going to make most of you mad.
For months now I’ve been getting a lot of comments on this blog that essentially say this:
We, the fans, want a playoff in college football. We buy the tickets and we watch the games on TV. So doesn’t college football HAVE to give us what we want?
The answer, gentle readers, is an emphatic no. Why is it no? Simple. And this is the part that is going to make you mad.
The rank and file fan is a very important constituency for college football for the reasons listed above. But fans are not always THE most important constituency when it comes to this sport.
Big East commissioner Mike Tranghese gets high marks from those of us who cover the BCS because he says what’s on his mind, even when it is not popular. He recently gave this comment to my friend Ivan Maisel of ESPN.com:
“My gut instinct is that the vast majority of people would want a playoff. But this isn’t about giving people what they want. I just don’t believe that. This is about creating a model that works and is in the best interest, hopefully, of student-athletes.”
The reality is that if you’re a conference commissioner or an athletics director and your financial success depends on college football, fans are not the only people you have to keep happy. That list also includes:
Television: The SEC will share at least $122 million in revenue when they meet next week in Destin. Of that total, about $50 million will come from televised football. Television is the financial engine that drives college football and is also its No. 1 recruiting tool. You have to keep those folks happy.
Bowls: After expenses, the SEC netted $23.7 million from the bowls during the 2006-2007 academic year. With two teams in the BCS again last season, that figure will probably be higher this year. Last season the bowls gave nine SEC teams and eight ACC teams a place to go after the regular season. The bowls pour over $200 million per year back into Division I-A football.
Sponsors: These folks spend millions on advertising and other kinds of financial support to the schools and the conferences. They expect to get a big bang for their buck. And they expect to be treated well.
Big donors: These folks step up and write the big checks when something has to get done in a hurry, like buying out a coach that you just fired.
Season ticket holders: These people form the core of your financial base and you don’t want to do anything to diminish the value to the regular season. They have a great deal invested in the six or more trips they make each year to watch regular season games.
Players: The athletic and academic demands on players is already intense. Many play 14 games in a season now. An eight-team playoff would add two more games and increase the risk of injury.
But if fans don’t buy tickets or go to bowl games or watch on television then none of this other stuff matters, you say. And of course, you’re right.
There is, however, no evidence-none—that fans are so upset about the BCS that they will withhold their support college football. Division I-A set another all-time attendance record last season during a period when there are more games on television than ever before.
It is the great paradox of college football. You can cuss the BCS all you want, and I’ve certainly done it. But the fact remains that college football is more popular than it’s ever been and the game is generating more money than it ever has. The post-season may be controversial, but it creates a passionate off-season discussion of college football that never existed before.
The people who run college football may be stubborn on this issue but they are not stupid. While controversial, this post-season model, with all of its flaws, is working for the commissioners and their schools. When this model no longer works, only then will they change.
And that’s the truth.
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By SAKA
May 21, 2008 8:52 AM | Link to this
I read your columns, and those of other sportswriters, and think I must be the only college football fan in the country not rabidly screaming for a playoff. College football was just fine for many, many years before the BCS, which should be scrapped. The BCS actually has created controversy, where there wasn’t that much before. For me, being able to sit around arguing the hypothetical “ifs, ands and buts” over whose team was “really the best” in any year, is simply part of the fun of the game.
By Dave
May 21, 2008 9:05 AM | Link to this
Leave the current system alone. College football is the only sport that I still care about. I have had it with all of the pro sports.
Each Saturday is like a playoff game in college football. One loss in a regular season game can ruin a teams championship hopes.
By KR
May 21, 2008 9:06 AM | Link to this
I’ve seen Auburn get burned by the old system in the early ’80s and I saw Auburn get burned by the BCS system in this decade.
I’ve seen Universities that cannot count their achievements accurately.
I’ve seen teams that couldn’t win their conference get a shot at the “National Champion” title.
I’ve seen schools try to make the argument that the rules they agreed to shouldn’t apply to them.
I’ve seen coaches publicly lobby to change the voters mind. I’ve also seen evidence that there is similar lobbying going on behind the scene.
The “National Champion” moniker is one that the press needs to sell more of their particular media. The schools don’t really benefit all that much.
Personally, I’m beginning to lose interest in the entire post season. Once the conference championship games are played, I’ll probably stop watching for the year.
WAR EAGLE!
By Herschel Talker
May 21, 2008 9:08 AM | Link to this
We need a playoff so us BullDawgs would get our fair share. We clearly had the best team last year, and I would love to fight Spurrier or anyone who challenges me on that fact.
By Roswell Ed
May 21, 2008 9:08 AM | Link to this
What about the plus one?
Simple as that.
I’m tired of the BCS talk. It’s not perfect but its a lot better than it was and I’m saying that as a fan of the biggest
jobbed team in the history of the BCS.
It’s gotten it right most years and most of you who will comment on this today will never have to worry about being a playoff champion team
i.e. Tech.
I’m pretty sure that there is no way that Nebraska would have made it through or even gotten in the playoffs if they had been around in ‘90.
What do BYU and Tech have in common?
By Concerned
May 21, 2008 9:12 AM | Link to this
A playoff would be bad for the normal season ticket holder. If you are a fan of an SEC, ACC, or Big 12 team, you could potentially have to buy game tickets, plane tickets, and hotel rooms for 3 different weeks starting at the beginning of December. First, the conference championship - then semi-finals in Tempe, New Orleans, Miami, Pasadena, or, in the near future, Dallas - then the championship game in another one of the above cities. (Even if you get rid of the conference championship games, those are 2 trips that would be very expensive.)
Financially, very few loyal fans would be able to afford to watch their team in person. Basically, the game becomes like the Super Bowl - completely corporate. I have had the privilege of going to a couple of Super Bowls. Trust me, it is about as distant to the college atmosphere as one can get. And, I believe, that is a bad thing.
By Hootie Bookems
May 21, 2008 9:22 AM | Link to this
All these people clamoring for a plus one need to realize it is not the end all. A plus one just moves the controversy from Who deserves to be #2? to who deserves to be #4? As long as the BCS model is “choosing” the participants there will be controversy no matter how many teams are in question.
By Roswell Ed
May 21, 2008 9:25 AM | Link to this
Saka you is wrong boy.
I can’t think about who else got robbed but AU comes to mind in ‘84.
AU was #3 going into the Sugar Bowl.
Number 1 Nebraska got beat.
Number 2 Texas who had beaten AU in the 1st(sic) game of the season got beat by a Bulldog team tha AU had beaten 6 weeks earlier,
AU beat UM
and AU stayed 3rd.
Hey Dawg fans-
What time is it in Texas?
One of the best games I’ve ever seen. I watched it in a bar on Bourbon St at the age of 17 before the Sugar Bowl that evening.
By Herschel Talker
May 21, 2008 9:27 AM | Link to this
Concerned, you are not required to go to all 3. This gives the fans an additional chance to see their team in a true championship. All we would need is a plus 1.
By Herschel Talker
May 21, 2008 9:28 AM | Link to this
Hootie, I would rather have people arguing over who should be #4 in the system over who should be in the NC game every year.
By Miles
May 21, 2008 9:39 AM | Link to this
Mr. Barnhart, you’re correct when you allude to the issue of constituency as it relates to the issue of a playoff system in college football. However, to dissect college football simply in terms of dollars and cents denegrates the greatness of the game. The true meaning of the game transcends the almighty dollar.
By Hairy
May 21, 2008 9:49 AM | Link to this
DAWGS would have been champs last year if there would have been a playoff.
By Hootie Bookems
May 21, 2008 9:50 AM | Link to this
8 team playoff
6 BCS Conference Champions - All conference champs are crowned the same way.
2 at large teams - Chosen by either a committee selection, human poll rankings or RPI type of index.
By Fisher
May 21, 2008 9:51 AM | Link to this
i wasnt being serious yesterday when i said we needed more articles about the BCS and a playoff system. for the love of god write something original. this topic has been beaten into (and through) the ground, and your peers at SI and ESPN have covered it much better. please move on. it should be totally obvious by now that there isnt going to be a NCAA playoff anytime in the near future. get over it. move on. stop printing the same three damn article(s) every week.
By mdawg
May 21, 2008 9:51 AM | Link to this
KR, if your a War Eagle you usually stop watching football at the end of your scheduled season anyway so let the teams in the post season games argue this out! Go DAWGS !!!!!!!
By Haywood Jablowme
May 21, 2008 9:52 AM | Link to this
I AM AN IDIOT
By DirtyDawg
May 21, 2008 9:58 AM | Link to this
I’m no fan of a playoff either. As for the BCS, at least it keeps conference tie-ups/contracts, i.e., The Rose Bowl’s PAC-Something and Big Whatevers, from blocking a top-rated team from playing in the ‘Championship’ game. As for the rest of it…whataya have, 25-26 bowl games? That means that fans, players and coaches of 25 or more teams get to go home happy at the end of the season…coaches keep their jobs, they can recruit, bask in the final victory and get ready for next year. With a playoff, there would only be one team that gets to feel that way. Plus, just how many games do you expect fans to go to during a playoff, and where? Cost of tickets, time-off from work, travel, hotels, meals and how many games?
I know the TV folks, the rabble-rousers on the radio and fans that don’t actually pay to go to games as it is, clamor for it, but I don’t think it’s realistic or good for the game.
Do what you can to tweak it to make it as fair as humanly possible, then tee-it-up.
By Richard
May 21, 2008 9:59 AM | Link to this
Don’t want to diminish the regular season?
The regular season is diminished when you schedule teams like Jacksonville State and Gardner Webb. Having to pay season ticket prices for these games actually p** me off more than the BCS.
The regular season is diminished when Oklahoma, West Virginia, Virginia Tech (ok VT might be the exception), USC and Hawaii get left out of the championship game with the same, or in Hawaii’s case, better regular season.
The regular season is diminished because of quotes like “we deserve to play for the national championship because we were undefeated in regulation.”
The regular season is diminished when UGA actually thinks they have a case for the #2 spot even though their regular season wasn’t as good as Tennessee.
The regular season is diminished when voters arbitrarily pick two teams out of a hat to decide the champion despite having not played a snap.
The regular season is diminished when Auburn, Hawaii, Utah and Boise State are denied an opportunity to play for the title despite perfect regular seasons.
And the regular season is rendered completely meaningless by the BCS.
By Hairy
May 21, 2008 10:02 AM | Link to this
We have the toughest schedule in the country but will win them All!!! National Champs in 08!! WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF
By AGTfan
May 21, 2008 10:03 AM | Link to this
While it’s absolutely true that those who run big-time college football don’t care one bit about the fans, it’s a bald-faced lie to say that they have the best interests of the student-atheletes at heart. They care less about the atheletes than they do about the fans. It’s MONEY that they love. It’s MONEY that drives their decision process. Get over the idea that college football is a SPORT. It’s a multi-billion dollar business.
You are right. Nothing will ever change for the better, because the fans don’t want it bad enough to make it happen. I’ve said before that I boycott the BCS, but I’m not willing to boycott college football all-together. I’ll probably keep my personal boycott of the BCS going for a few years and then get tired of it and start watching again. Nothing will change as long as the fat-cats keep getting richer by expoiting student-atheletes and expoiting the fans.
The whole conversation is worthless because we don’t hate the status quo enough to slow down the cash flow.
By PTC DAWG
May 21, 2008 10:15 AM | Link to this
I fail to see how a playoff that included 6 Conference Champions and 2 at large teams would diminish the regular season ONE bit.
Can someone please explain it to me?
As it is now, we VOTE on a champion. :(
By Hairy
May 21, 2008 10:15 AM | Link to this
GTFan, I hate to admit it but you are correct! Most of these players are not “students” at all. Most are just biding time on their way to the NFL. So, why mask the reason as taking care of the “student athelete?” It is all about $$$ and always has been!
By Joe
May 21, 2008 10:16 AM | Link to this
Tony, You know what else was popular for a time? Nazism. Popularity doesn’t legitimize this system. Nor does money.
And don’t try to sell us on the notion that these guys are doing what they think is best for the student athletes. I’ve taught and tutored my share of SAs and I know that isn’t true.
By Stone
May 21, 2008 10:17 AM | Link to this
Should of thought of the players before adding the twelth game.
By Haywood Jablowme
May 21, 2008 10:18 AM | Link to this
I am to stoopid to comment on such matters!
By Roswell Ed
May 21, 2008 10:25 AM | Link to this
hhh:
Watch your language, little lady.
Sheriff Justice is listening out there.
By Herschel Talker
May 21, 2008 10:28 AM | Link to this
Where is gerogiagirl today? We need some more non-insightful backing of the DAWGS!!!!
By LikeToBlog
May 21, 2008 10:30 AM | Link to this
The driving force for this decision is not the fans - that is true. It is most certainly MONEY (as with most things).
The money issue isn’t even which (playoff vs. no playoff) would make more money. IMHO, a playoff would generate much more money overall. The issue is who the money goes to.
If there was a playoff, the focus of TV revenue and the general fan will be on the playoffs. Very few would care about any bowl game not involved in the playoff. It is those people that are now preventing playoffs from happening.
For example, the Peach Bowl is currently very successful. It enjoys sell outs for ticket sells and huge TV revenue. But, if there was a 4 game playoff, people wouldn’t care so much about the Peach Bowl and the money would decrease. It is the Peach Bowl types that are snuffing out the playoff possibility.
By Big Orange in 08!!
May 21, 2008 10:37 AM | Link to this
To have an 8 team playoff so fans could financially afford to go, you have to have the first round of games at the top 4 seeds home stadiums. Then you can go to a neutral site to play the “Final Four” and then the Real National Championship.
Yeah Herschel Talker you were “Clearly the best team in the country at the end of the year”. You all may have been the best team at the end of the year, but there was no one that was clearly the best. Don’t think that bc you won the Sugar Bowl against a very mediocre Hawaii team that you were head and shoulders above everyone else. The Sugar Bowl is meaningless. Just like every other bowl that is not the MNC . Which is why we need an 8 team playoff.
By Ramblin Wrecker
May 21, 2008 10:43 AM | Link to this
I totally agree with Tony. A playoff would ruin what is great about college football. The regular season matters…every game. I when I say every game, I don’t just mean every game LSU or Ohio State or USC plays. I mean every game has meaning because of strength of schedule considerations and head to head matchups, and matchups between common opponents of the LSU’s, Ohio State’s and USC’s (or whoever is at the top of the heap competing for a BCS berth). As a GT fan I don’t hold any false hopes that the Wreck will be playing for a national title. But every game GT plays has meaning because of who they play on their schedule. UGA has national title hopes, so how good GT is against Miss State matters to UGA or to anyone who plays Miss State that might have NC aspirations. And that kind of drama adds to the excitement of GT’s season even if we aren’t necessarily contenders. If there was a playoff, UGA could care less how good GT was (provided UGA makes it thru their gaunlet with fewer than 2 losses) because they’d be into the playoff field already. That’s what makes every game exciting and important. That week 3 matchup between New England and Indy means nothing in the NFL, because both NE and Indy will win the requisite number of games thru out the sesaon to get into the playoffs. It doesn’t have the same impact. So for all the BCS’s faults, I don’t want it to be scrapped. Now we can argue all day long about the actual selection process for who gets into the BCS games and NC game, but the system is not broken. I read somewhere that maybe the BCS selection process should be handled with a panel similar to the one that selects the field of 65 for the basketball tourney, rather than biased polls and imperfect computer calculations. I’d be in support of that if the panel was made up of impartial experts. But no playoff!!
By bill
May 21, 2008 10:54 AM | Link to this
All you people who are saying UGA was the best team last year?
I guess you have forgotten how good USC was at the end of last year.They like you lost games in the middle of the season.Like you they had a home loss and a road loss.Unlike UGA neither of their losses was a 2-3 touchdown beating.
What is a fact is USC had a number of key injuries at key position including QB.Once they got healthy they got rolling.They crushed this Arizona State team that is supposed to be so good.
They hammered an Illonis team in the Rose Bowl that was far better than that Hawaii team that had no business in a major bowl.
Bottom line look at the guys the Trojans had drafted this year in the first round.Many scouts say every one of the players on USC’s defense last year will be drafted when their time comes.
You guys had a very good team at the end of last year.No doubt about that.But I will always believe USC was the best at the end of last year.
By Ken
May 21, 2008 10:55 AM | Link to this
I,m a huge football fan, both gollege and pro.It dawned on me one day that I love the differece in the two games.College football is played at many different starting times on many different networks and the polls and rankings leave us guessing and in a fervor over every single game.Pro ball is more structured and the regular season is just a long rehearsal for the post season.While the current system is far from perfect do you really want to make it just like pro footbal?Not me!Furthermore, a playoff wouldn,t eliminate the existing problem because your still gonna have the same problems over who gets picked to be in the playoffs.Hey I’m a huge UGA fan and I feel the frustration.They were 4th in the poll and 2 teams ahead of them lost, that should’ve put them in the big game.All the analysts were saying UGA and USC were the best teams at the end of the season,and all the same guys turned around and said something completely different one week later.So as long as K. Herbstriet,M. May,Holtz etc.. are picking the teams it doesn,t matter even if we had a playoff!
By Maryland Dawg
May 22, 2008 8:41 AM | Link to this
Strongly disagree with Tony. In essense, all you are saying is fan interest is subservient to money. Ok. In reality ,the money generated by the sport is due directly to fan interest. Quite the paradox for you.
By gdawginkalamazoo
May 22, 2008 8:41 AM | Link to this
Tony, it is not widely know but Dick Cheney will be taking over as the head of the BCS after this year. You know his motto, “F&*k the fans”. Or is that the official motto of the BCS?
By Rabid Dawg
May 22, 2008 8:49 AM | Link to this
Plus 1 (Final Four) would not affect the Peach Bowl or any other bowls or the student athlete. The BCS is better than before when we had 1 vs 4 and 2 vs 9 and tehn vote. No one would have voted the Giants for the NFL Championship, but they won it on the field. Every game would matter for your team to get into the top 4 spots. Let’s please argue about who should be 4 and then crown a true champion ON THE FIELD
By anotherDAWG
May 22, 2008 9:22 AM | Link to this
Plus 1 (Final Four) would not affect the Peach Bowl or any other bowls or the student athlete. The BCS is better than before when we had 1 vs 4 and 2 vs 9 and tehn vote. No one would have voted the Giants for the NFL Championship, but they won it on the field. Every game would matter for your team to get into the top 4 spots. Let’s please argue about who should be 4 and then crown a true champion ON THE FIELD
By LikeToBlog
May 22, 2008 9:41 AM | Link to this
anotherDAWG - Fine. We have a “plus 1” a few years. Then, those teams without a shot at the “plus 1” will say “what about us?” There will be arguements for a few years until a 8 team play off is created using the 4 BCS bowls. When that happens, who will care about the Peach Bowl? No one!
That is why people involved in the bowls like the Peach Bowl are the ones really preventing any sort of play off. They see the future and they want the money.
By War Damn Eagle
May 22, 2008 9:48 AM | Link to this
mdawg, You said that AU fans stop watching at the end of the season because we don’t go to the post season? Are you serious? Last time I checked we WIN our bowl games. We don’t get blown out by West Virginia in our backyard. We can actually win our division as well. We don’t go around crying because we got beat by unranked teams to keep us out of the SEC championship. Remember, you have to WIN your division and the SEC to have a shot. That is, unless a computer tells your team that they can’t. Go undefeated and then talk trash. You make great bulldog fans look and sound really foolish right now. UGA has not gone undefeated in 28 years. We’ve done it twice. IF you guys go undefeated it will be a great day for UGA and all of the SEC because you guys face THE TOUGHEST schedule.
By War Damn Eagle
May 22, 2008 10:06 AM | Link to this
bill, hate to burst your USC orgasm but last time I checked, LSU was the best team in the country. They actually WON the NT. Surprised your trojans didn’t cry for a share of the NT like you did in 03. USC is a MUCH over-hyped team. Yes, you guys did beat us but you had a great team. This team is nothing compared to that team. But, then again, the Longhorns beat you on your own turf.
By P Dawg
May 22, 2008 10:14 AM | Link to this
War Damn Eagle, with all due respect, we didn’t get blown out by WV. We only lost by 3 or 4 points. We did, however, get blown out in the first half but fell short after a valiant second half rally.
By War Damn Eagle
May 22, 2008 10:20 AM | Link to this
P Dawg, And still lost. I don’t want to start a war with you or anything but please don’t throw insults at us when you know damn well we go to bowl games and win them. Also, don’t throw around how you guys are national champions when NOT ONE GAME HAS BEEN PLAYED. Prove it on the field and not on some blog. See you at Jordan-Hare West.
By Nole Larry
May 22, 2008 10:35 AM | Link to this
While its true that the fans are not the most important constituency in college football, neither are the press, the presidents, the commissioners, or even the networks. The most important consideration must always be the kids who play the game, who sweat and bleed on those fields to entertain us, and to give the press something to write about. ASk the players how they want championships decided and, to a man, they will all tell you they want to play it out on the field. Ask them how they feel about computers and journalists deciding their fate and they’ll tell them all to shove it and to just let them have it out on the field.
By homemotel
May 22, 2008 10:37 AM | Link to this
The idea that a playoff will diminish the regular season is ridiculous. Last time I checked, people still watch the regular season of the NFL.
Teams should play their normal schedule and the winner of each conference goes to the playoff.
And here’s how it won’t ruin the regular season: You have to win your division to get to the conference title game, which is how you get into the playoff.
It’s not rocket science.
Another reason we don’t have a playoff is not because it will diminish the regular season, but be because it will diminish the tradition of the Rose Bowl making it harder for the Big 10 and Pac 10 to get to the title game.
When you play in a weak conference, the bowl is all a team has. And given the money the Rose Bowl brings in, you’ll have to pry the BCS out of their cold, dead hands before they give in.
Why don’t we let the top teams actually play each other to decide the championship, instead of a bunch of suits, sports writers and has-beens making the decision.
By Joey Hanie
May 22, 2008 10:54 AM | Link to this
Money rules all, there will be no change………………”GO DAWGS”
By Haywood Jablowme
May 22, 2008 11:49 AM | Link to this
To the fake Haywood Jablowme….I agree….You’re an idiot who is too stupid to comment on such matters.
Now that the BS is over with, I will comment on such matters and say this……As long as there are 34 bowl games bringing in millions of dollars to the respective schools and conferences involved, there will be no playoff in college football. The NCAA will never allow a playoff to be staged in major bowls to be used as neutral playoff sites with the remaining 2 teams meeting in the BCS title game. That would cut the bowl schedule by at least 20 bowl games and who knows how many millions of dollars. Again, college football, like all other major sports, will bow to the almighty dollar no matter what the fans want to see.
By Old School
May 22, 2008 12:17 PM | Link to this
I wish we could go back in time just before the BCS was dumped on us and realize what should have been done.
Get rid of all conference tie-ins with bowl games. Why should an undefeated Big Ten champion play in the Rose Bowl while an undefeated SEC champion plays in the Sugar??
Put a cap on the number of bowl games. Bowl games used to be a reward, now they’re just an extra game. At the end of the season, no matter who it is, #1 should play #2, #3 vs #4, #5 vs #6, #7 vs #8 and #9 vs #10. Everyone else stay home; better luck next season. And if there are still 2 teams left without a loss, split the title and make THAT the controversy everyone argues makes college football so loved. How absurd is it to turn on a bowl game at 11:00 in the morning between two 6-6 teams and see maybe 9,000 spectators in the stands??????? Yeah, big money maker. How many teams have actually LOST money going to these peon bowl games???
Find a computer generated poll that works; because frankly, coaches don’t have time to put in the effort of deciding where to rank teams (except their own) and the media is about as clueless as a blonde with amnesia.
By Greenville Dawg
May 22, 2008 12:54 PM | Link to this
I agree with SAKA post at the very top. The system is fine as it is today. Take the #1 ranking with a grain of salt and enjoy the season. BTW, in case you lot didn’t realize this - our defense is going to be SICK this year.
By Denver Dawg
May 22, 2008 7:52 PM | Link to this
I hope West Virginia goes undefeated next year along with at least 2 other teams and gets locked out of the Championship game. Let’s see if that c0cksvcker will be singing the same tune when WVU fans destroy the campus in a riot.
By O-Zone
May 22, 2008 9:55 PM | Link to this
Hey Dawgs, let’s have a 4 man play off. We will put Hamilton and Houston against Thurman and Grant. No knives allowed.
By JJ the Jet Plane
May 23, 2008 1:23 AM | Link to this
Hey Ramblin Wrecker. Is that your name because you drive a wrecker and don’t know where you’re going. Looks as though you had an actual Tech Graduate write your blog for you. Mainly because it was full of sh!t.
By YELLOWJACKETS REQUIRED
May 23, 2008 1:50 AM | Link to this
If you like Terrence Moores columns, Don’t read this. I have a question.
Seems as though from high school through the pros, negros get into trouble a higher percentage of the time and numerically. Again, my question is WHY?
Joe Hamilton, Houston, Ball was always causing some sh!t. Odell Thurman, Charles Grant, Quincie Carter, Ricky Williams, DON’T FORGET M I C H E L L E V I C K!
When they’ve in college the coaches kind of keep things under wraps, but turn them loose in the Asphalt Jungle and the boys act like they don’t have sense enough to pour p!ss out of a boot.
Maybe Terrence Moore can answer the question for us.
As for a playoff,. If you want one or don’t want one, petition your particular college president. They are the ones who control the purse strings. Threaten to withhold your pledges if they don’t do what you want them to do. One thing we all must remember, most of the people bellyaching about to “playoff or not to playoff”, never graduated from college. Therefore they probably don’t donate anything to their institution of higher learning. So, MCF is right when he says the BCS says” Damn the fans”.
The “fans” don’t contribute anything to the universities if they didn’t go there.
By chibuzz
May 23, 2008 8:46 AM | Link to this
GIVE IT A REST!!!!
You guys have been moaning about this since Jan. UGA did not win the SEC. There are lots of great teams in the country that can claim number 1 but if you don’t win the conference then you don’t deserve the national championship. That applies or SEC, ACC or any other conference. Even with a playoff that same rule should hold true.
Get out of your chairs and go cover some news instead of spewing out the same crap every week with a different package.
By sean daly
May 24, 2008 5:55 PM | Link to this
No question, we will not have a playoff for the championship any time soon. The solution for me is easy, enjoy the game and follow the regular season and do not want watch any bowl games especially the Rose Bowl.Make a choice and avoid lousy matchups Illinois vs.USC Georgia vs. Hawaii and do not scream for a playoff,this will not happen till they(College Presidents,Conference Commissioners)need the cash end of story. boycott the bowls ,hurt them in the pocketbook