Wednesday, December 7, 2011

The Bad News BCS



By now all college football fans have had a few days to cool off after being steamed by the bowl game selections. The BCS should officially change its name to the Bull Crap Series, which is part of the NCAA - Not Caring About Athletes. College football has fully become a comedy skit with the constant "realignment" and BCS game selections. It's no longer about student athletes ( who don't get paid by the way) but about money hungry universities. It's been this way for some time already, but at this point the NCAA & BCS are just as corrupt as Enron, News Corp, Ponzi Schemers, etc. The NCAA will suspend a student athlete in a flash for selling his or her $70 jersey, but will not share 1 cent of the multi-millions with these kids that they bring into the NCAA and the universities.

The most recent BCS debacle has chosen two schools (LSU & Alabama) from the same conference within the same division into the 2011-2012 National Championship Game. How can a National championship be decided by divisional opponents? Well that's easy greed, SEC bias, ESPN influence, ignorance, and arrogance. What a nasty combination! There is no doubt that LSU deserves to be in this game, but not so much Alabama. Nearly all of the so called "experts" working for ESPN mainly and CBS of course say that Alabama is the second best team in the country. Their evidence of that you ask? In addition to the "eyeball test", well they play in the SEC and the only loss they suffered was to #1 ranked LSU by three points (on their home field by the way). That logic makes as much sense as asking for change for a penny. In all team sports, its about match ups and playing the actual game. Not what some person thinks or saw how one team played against another. A playoff system like every other team sport on the planet, and every other division in college football would resolve this.

In our opinion Oklahoma State is the team that should be playing LSU. There is an argument that can be made that the #3 team Oklahoma State team lost a game to a lesser unranked opponent. So they lost their chance to play for the title. However, there was a real tragedy that the entire university dealt with just prior to the game they lost. Also, that game was on the road. Though, the most important facts are that Oklahoma State held a noticeably better resume than Alabama with the number of ranked teams they beat and other factors. Besides, most college football fans prefer not to see another boring game with two teams in the same division, competing for the National Championship for that matter. In 2006 there was a very similar situation with Ohio State & Michigan which were the # 1 & 2 teams when they played a very exciting game, unlike LSU & Alabama. Some people said they should play for the National title, but ESPN and its "experts" lobbied that two teams from the same conference shouldn't play for the National title. And it would be unfair for Ohio State to have to beat Michigan again. Nonetheless, Michigan was left out and Florida got the nod to play against Ohio State for the title.

Outside of this championship game nonsense, the rest of the BCS games for this season are a complete disaster. There are teams left out that should've been included and teams included that should've been deserted. And most of the match ups are worthless and uninteresting. The NCAA and College football is only about money these days and not about student athletes having fun while getting an education, and fans getting to see their teams play in bowl games where they deserve to. It has come to whichever schools have the larger fan bases, bank accounts, and influence that are getting ahead. This is starting to feel awfully a lot like rich vs. poor and a popularity contest to see who wins prom king. The only answer to this BCS nightmare is for fans to quit watching these games when they come around. No ratings = No money for the BCS. Then eventually the right thing which is playoffs will come about when the NCAA grows up and stops being greedy. Though, you should not hold your breath because for the NCAA if it don't make dollars, it don't make sense.