ROLLERSKATAGATORPIG LIVES
Thank you, Jim Delany. No one wanted a playoff anyway:
We’re not convinced a pure playoff is the solution, but here’s what’s already happened with the BCS. First, we started off with a pig. Then, the pig was given rollerskates. Then, the rollerskate-pig received a transplant of an alligator’s snout. Once the pig’s head proved to be too heavy with the alligator’s snout, a counterweight was added at the tail in the form of sack of buckshot stapled to its tail.
At this point, the plus one would be sewing another head onto the allipigrollerskatebuckshot beast. But at this point, why not ask Dr. Frankenbowl to break out the staple gun and make it happen? We’re already talking about relative degrees of absurdity. The real problem (Carville) is that the other pig (still) is (hates) the Rose Bowl, and that head’s not coming off without some unbelievable gore.












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So what, people are stupid and shortsighted and don’t know what is best for them.
#26 I don’t think it was the big payouts that pushed the “tens” to the BCS, it was the fact that we couldn’t have a true national championship game in 1998 because Michigan and the other Big/Pac Ten honks wouldn’t play in any other bowl other than the Rose Bowl and against each other. So Nebraska had to play Tennessee because it couldn’t play Michigan, ending up with both teams winning handly and we, the fans, ultimately had crap. Michigan Morons.
I wished the voters would have punished Michigan and the Big Ten that year for their bastardization of College Football and gave Nebraska both titles.
Comment by meatybob — May 2, 2008 @ 4:24 pm
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I’m pretty sure standard offline polls have been taken on the BCS vs. Playoffs issue, with similar results.
Comment by Dava — May 2, 2008 @ 10:53 am
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so espn.com public opinion polls are suddenly scientific representations of what American thinks? I used to work in a polling place (gallup), and I can tell that there is very little reason to put stock in polls conducted without any kind of sample control. Just because internet savvy 18-24 years olds (the kind of people who vote on espn polls, in other words) feel one way about something doesn’t mean that EVERYONE does.
Comment by Carlinthemarlin — May 2, 2008 @ 9:42 am
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MCab - the BCS is actually added such a concept this year. Conferences will be awarded automatic bids based on their running four-year performance. No more than 7 conferences and no fewer than 5 conferences will get auto bids, but it will allow for a non-Big Six conference to earn an auto bid.
Note: this doesn’t override the contracts that conferences have with bowls. The ACC, Big 12, Big Ten, Pac 10, and SEC will always have de facto auto bids as long as they have their contracts, so really it’s only a system that could revoke the Big East’s auto bid or supply an auto bid or two to the smaller conferences.
Comment by Dave — May 1, 2008 @ 4:49 pm
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LOL, by state, Ohio has the most support for the current system at 14%. I wonder why …
Comment by evanshall — May 1, 2008 @ 4:07 pm
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manbearpig!!!! lives. maybe the Rose Cabal will be stuck in a mine cave-in.
Comment by meg — May 1, 2008 @ 3:53 pm
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What about a premiership system like the English Premier League? The BCS is nothing but a division within a division anyway, so we might as well have changing shares in the BCS amongst conferences.
Comment by MCab — May 1, 2008 @ 3:30 pm
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#25 - We had that. It was called the Bowl Alliance. It morphed into the BCS when the Big Ten and Pac 10 decided to get on board after a couple years of missing out on large payouts.
Hey… not a bad idea my good Tiger.
Comment by Dave — May 1, 2008 @ 3:13 pm