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The Absolute Worst Argument of All Time
Feb 8th
As you know, I am a proponent of a playoff to determine the D-1 college football champion. I will argue for it until my dying day. I hold firm that is how God intended championships to be decided.
There are many plausible arguments against a playoff. All involve money and control. Then there are those that just reek of utter non-sense and bad schooling.
Take, for instance, the repeated claim that appeared on the Senator’s site today. There are those who contend the Saints victory over the Colts is proof that a playoff will not determine a legitimate champion.
That’s right. There are people walking among us that believe the Colts should be named champion because they THINK the Colts are the better team. Yep, they think their opinions should matter more than the outcome of the game.
In these people’s minds , the outcome on the field matters not when compared with the value of their own analysis. In their mind the Saints victory only serves to prove the BCS is a better system than a playoff.
It probably never occurred to them an underdog could win the BCS game.
Be careful driving to work tomorrow, one of these people may be on the road with you.
BCS: Senator Hatch v. Senator Blutarsky
Jan 30th
I have no doubt Sanford’s Senator Blutarsky is diligently penning a post that will somehow compare efforts to create a legitimate champion in college football’s highest division akin to making the sun rise in the west and set in the east.
There is no arguing that politicians have greater challenges to address than America’s finest sport. The same cannot be said, however, for the Department of Justice.
Tradition and creep, as in the number of playoff participants will surely grow endlessly, will be early arguments presented. Tradition is always a tough argument to win, but those arguments have often been won, and we are better for it. Playoff creep, like any hypothetical, is another difficult argument because the facts and realities exist only in the BCS defender’s mind.
To truly “get the picture”, one must acknowledge the BCS, or any bowl system that gives undue weight to subjective polls and computer programmers, is the errant exception. The rule for deciding a champion is a post season playoff.
A playoff is as normal and logical as the sun setting in the west.
• Encouraging the NCAA to take control of the college football postseason. Now we’re talking. From the beginning, the great divide between college football and every other university-sanctioned sport has been the NCAA’s total lack of control over the gridiron postseason, except to set embarrassingly low minimum standards for bowl games to exist for teams to become eligible to play in them. The Association’s absence from the “championship” system is also the source of the longstanding legitimacy problem of crowning “the national champion” — as far as the NCAA is concerned, in major college football, there has never been any such thing. (It’s telling that it renamed the two divisions within Division I the “Bowl Subdivision” and the “Championship Subdivision,” specifically reserving the latter distinction for the lower tier that competes in a playoff.) An official, undisputed NCAA champion — by any means — would change the entire dynamic of crowning No. 1.
Friday Freeze Out and a Heart Felt Thanks from BUI
Jan 8th
Bama is the Mythical National Champion. The $EC has won four straight MNCs. The SEC has never lost a BCS Championship game. Georgia is unranked in the final poll for the first time since 1996.
In other news, despite Brent Musburger throwing Kirby Smart into the Texas Tech head coaching search, the rumblings have never been louder about him coming back to Athens. I do not know. For the first time, I am starting to think they we can’t afford him. The domino affect of bringing Kirby in at well over $600k/yr on a multi-year contract has to give Damon Evans reason for pause. Richt probably feels like he has been pushed into this Kirby hire and may have a tad bit of resentment about it.
I fully expect Richt to make an offer to Kirby, but I have my doubts everything possible will be done to lure him home.
Pat Forde said the $EC must be stopped. That did not happen. Mike Bianchi is calling not for Tebow or Meyer’s feet to be kissed, but the league as a whole. Kevin Scarbinsky and Jeff Schultz have both bought personal seating licenses on the Bama bandwagon.
Despite the success of this year’s title game, Boise State did go undefeated and the populist rage over the BCS continues to grow. Bill Hancock, the new BCS full-time mouthpiece (as opposed to their part time hired guns) is staying on the offensive against playoff proponents. Mr Hancock now falls on my s-list right behind Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid.
BCS chief knocks playoff || OnlineAthens.com
“I know this is not completely popular, but I believe in it,” Hancock told reporters Thursday at the Football Writers Association of America awards breakfast. “I believe it is in the best interest of the universities.
“College football has never been better and I believe the BCS is part of that.”
So, football season is officially over. We are hiring. We are into the home stretch of recruiting season. Conference play for the basketball Dawgs begins tomorrow with a trip to the Nike/NBA developmental league in Lexington. The Gym Dawgs are breaking in a new coach, talk about big shoes to fill…
There is still a lot going on in the BullDawg Nation. I hope you will continue to check in from time to time to get my take on things.
I started this blog on July 1 of last year. I received 24 hits my first day. Thanks, BernieDawg. On November 1, I moved from blogspot to my own server/domain and upgraded the site a bit. DawgsBUI 2.0 garnered over 67,000 hits with more than 250k pageviews in the final two months of 2009. On December 16, more than 6,000 of you visited.
I can’t tell you how much I appreciate the support. I hope a simple “thank you” will suffice.
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