tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33624629.post9145486082566023830..comments2024-03-28T03:18:35.837-04:00Comments on Dan Shanoff: Let's Put This Year's BCS Drama Behind UsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33624629.post-10582072798288938512008-12-08T13:26:00.000-05:002008-12-08T13:26:00.000-05:00Ummm....gonna have to call BS here, Dan. You've b...Ummm....gonna have to call BS here, Dan. You've been one of the biggest complainers of the WHOLE system, yet, YOUR team gets in and its "Lets put it behind us". I'm out. You have just lost my respect with this one.The Keitherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12442557862602572255noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33624629.post-56417271898650087862008-12-08T13:22:00.000-05:002008-12-08T13:22:00.000-05:00Dan, your premise is excellent, but the last line ...Dan, your premise is excellent, but the last line in your post completely undermines your theory--that the coaches are no more serious than the average fan is a particularly galling insult to the lion's share of college fans everywhere.<BR/>I can't think of but a handful of people in the press (blogs included) and my personal circle of friends whom given the power that you ascribe to these coaches and their ability to call the BCS's bluff wouldn't do so. Like now. Or better yet, five minutes ago.<BR/>There is no shortage of fans whom given the president-elect's ear and an anti-trust exemption to saber rattle with wouldn't hesitate to bring about a playoff in one form or the other starting tomorrow. There's lots of ideas out there (I personally favor using the BCS bowls as quarter-final games--hello New Year's Day bowl Mecca; top six rated conference champions and two highest ranked wild cards with the proviso that ANY team who finishes undefeated gets in even if it means a play-in game or two), but the point is it's not the fans holding this thing up: You think Bevo's backers would care about stepping on a neutral field with Utah right now if it meant a semi-final rematch with Oklahoma in two weeks?<BR/>You are absolutely right to rip Carroll, Stoops, Brown, Paterno, Meyer, et al for talking playoffs when they're ranked #6 and being strangely silent when their name gets called for the championship game. But college football nation is smarter and more pragmatic than these individual names--we know that this system is irrevocably broken and aren't afraid to say so regardless of who's in the title game. The difference is we fans don't have the power to change this. To project the coaches' (and AD's, and university presidents') laziness on to college football fans as a whole does a disservice to passionate knowledgeable fans everywhere.Trenchman003https://www.blogger.com/profile/10761980433717220382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33624629.post-84686280027956499102008-12-08T12:34:00.000-05:002008-12-08T12:34:00.000-05:00First, let's clarify something: Mack Brown and Pe...First, let's clarify something: Mack Brown and Pete Carroll and Joe Paterno can't make that call to snub their BCS invites. That is the Ath Dir and Univ Pres decision to make. Don't blame the coaches.<BR/><BR/>Second - the reason these guys aren't going to leave their conference is that they immediately have a scheduling problem -- and potentially could get stuck playing the other I-A independents, Sun Belt, etc. etc. A mass BCS exodus will only happen if several schools jump ship at the same time and, you are right, that's too much of a prisoner's dilemma for there to be any real cooperation there. The school that takes the risk could get left out in the cold. But so long as you agree to group Florida in with all these schools you are castigating, though, because they aren't any different, I am more or less with you.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08579208677946952792noreply@blogger.com