Comments on: ROLLERSKATAGATORPIG LIVES

By: meatybob

meatybob — Fri, 02 May 2008 21:24:47 +0000

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.

By: Dava

Dava — Fri, 02 May 2008 15:53:31 +0000

I’m pretty sure standard offline polls have been taken on the BCS vs. Playoffs issue, with similar results.

By: Carlinthemarlin

Carlinthemarlin — Fri, 02 May 2008 14:42:03 +0000

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.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 01 May 2008 21:49:34 +0000

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.

By: evanshall

evanshall — Thu, 01 May 2008 21:07:29 +0000

LOL, by state, Ohio has the most support for the current system at 14%. I wonder why …

By: meg

meg — Thu, 01 May 2008 20:53:13 +0000

manbearpig!!!! lives. maybe the Rose Cabal will be stuck in a mine cave-in.

By: MCab

MCab — Thu, 01 May 2008 20:30:30 +0000

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.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 01 May 2008 20:13:13 +0000

#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.

By: NewAZTiger

NewAZTiger — Thu, 01 May 2008 20:07:01 +0000

As the ratings for the sucky non BCS “championship” games continue to tank, they’ll change the system.

I think the SEC, ACC need to get the Big 12 and Big East on board for a playoff, and stage the first round of the playoff to kick off at the same time as the Rose Bowl kickoff.

RATINGS WAR!!!! ANARCHY!!!!

By: Anon

Anon — Thu, 01 May 2008 19:50:20 +0000

#15 – see Big East teams, i.e., UCONN, Pitt, BC (although not this year), etc.

Also, Big Ten decided to extend their upcoming seasons past thanksgiving

By: campayan

campayan — Thu, 01 May 2008 19:35:56 +0000

Anyone think it’s weird that the state of Ohio is in red on that chart? Of all the people benefitting from the bcs…

By: UgasTexan

UgasTexan — Thu, 01 May 2008 19:31:43 +0000

Hakeem Olajuwon thinks college playoffs suck and determine nothing.

UNBEATABLE!

By: WarCardinals

WarCardinals — Thu, 01 May 2008 19:28:31 +0000

I’ve never heard anyone arguing over who’s better between Kansas and Memphis like people argue about the BCS. When it’s played on the field, even if it’s a huge upset, it counts much more than if it’s played on paper or on a computer.

By: Pants McPants

Pants McPants — Thu, 01 May 2008 19:15:12 +0000

Jim Delany is probably the only person I can think of who, if he became a sports agent, would cause teams to hand out Drew Rosenhaus’s business cards to prospective draftees…

By: Erik

Erik — Thu, 01 May 2008 19:14:18 +0000

#11, I think I disagree. If a goal is fundamentally unachievable, as I believe an entertaining indisputable championship to do, then acting as though you are working toward the goal only legitimizes what is an illegitimate exercise.

We don’t need to call it a playoff to call it fun. Let’s not delude ourselves. Let’s just watch and argue about football.