Friday, January 18, 2008

Perhaps the NCAA football will stop being idiots

I want my first blog to be passionate. Something that people will read and think, "he has it" or "he is dumb as a bag of hammers"...in other words, I hope I make an impression and spark discussion. I chose a subject that is fresh in most minds as the college bowl season has come to an end; the absolute need for a NCAA division 1 football playoff (notice no "fsbs" crap for me.) I have always thought the argument against having a playoff was ridiculous and this season has made it all the clearer I am right. LSU national champs! Sure they are.... wonder how Georgia and So Cal feel about that? What is even more laughable is Ohio State being in the game. Perhaps the most impressive team was West Virginia and they were not even under consideration for a spot in the game. I just do not understand how LSU jumps from number 7 to number 2 in the polls just in time to make the "big game." Sure, they won the conference title in the best conference money can buy, but they struggled down the stretch, losing 2 games-classics though they were. All of this is just to say this season was screwy to say the least and produced far too many BCS blowouts to have been considered interesting or entertaining.
But perhaps there is light at the end of the tunnel. It seems the U of Georgia president is now in favor of an 8 team playoff system, which is more than we could hope for, and John Swafford of the ACC seems to also be in support of some kind of plus one game. The only holdouts appear to be the PAC 10 folks with their precious Rose Bowl and the Big Ten, aka THE Ohio State's free pass to a BCS game. It seems that division one players can now be considered as smart as all other division's players as the class room demands may not be as arduous as previously thought and repeatedly stated by conference commissioners and University Presidents, an argument they lost the rights to when they expanded the season to 12 games. It seems many minds can and do change when so many deserving teams get left out in the cold, watching 2 teams that probably could not beat Georgia, Oklahoma, West "by God" Virginia, or So Cal at the end of the season. Maybe, just maybe, these money hungry BCS conferences are starting to realize what we fans have always known...you can fold the existing bowl games into a playoff system and produce a game that will sell out any Pro stadium and rival the Super Bowl in popularity. Could you imagine the football equivalent to the Final Four? Talk about TV ratings and add dollars! It would be astronomical. Oh yeah, and the game would not be too bad either, which is, after all, the point, right?
Thanks for reading
Mike, the "short" of sports

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