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Wetzel again blasts the BCS for some fuzzy math

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by kickoff-time, Dec 1, 2011.

  1. Johnny Dangerously

    Johnny Dangerously Well-Known Member

    (Now that it, and not Fox, is the BCS network)
     
  2. Situation

    Situation Member

    I just love how it's never mentioned that the BCS is still better than any system we ever had before, as far as determining a national champion.

    That's a poor reason for supporting and attempting to validate the system.
     
  3. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    Rooting for BCS chaos has become an annual tradition, and I love it as much as anyone, but this is not the year to beat that drum. Nobody has a compelling argument.
     
  4. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    Actually, Situation, I would argue the old bowls followed by polls system WAS better, or at least more honest, in that it made it clear opinion was the determining factor in deciding the imaginary national champion, rather than the subterfuge of having opinion be the determining factor in selecting TWO teams who then play a game for the imaginary championship.
    I agree with LTL this annual argument lacks some the old zip this season, because the argument over the two teams has pretty much died out. I can't think of a better imaginary championship matchup then LSU-Alabama.
     
  5. Johnny Dangerously

    Johnny Dangerously Well-Known Member

    For all of the "BCS chaos!" what-ifs and hand-wringing every October and November, by December it usually works itself out. The rate at which it doesn't is probably no greater, and quite possibly less frequent, than the frequency of controversy about No. 1 for the rest of big-boy college football history.
     
  6. hondo

    hondo Well-Known Member

    Every system used to determine a national champion, starting with the simple AP poll, has been horseshit. So calling the BCS the best system we've ever had is like dysentery is the best disease you can have, compared to Smallpox, malaria and Beri-Beri.
     
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  7. Piotr Rasputin

    Piotr Rasputin New Member

    If you care to note where I either "supported" or "validated" the system, you just let me know.

    It's not false to point out that no one ever tried to put together a proper yearly No. 1 vs. No. 2 matchup before. It would therefore follow that no one should be surprised that this, the first real attempt at it, is far from perfect. I don't understand the constant bitching about it.

    I understand that as it pertains to rankings.

    But I like that the current system allows for TCU making the Rose Bowl.
     
  8. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    Yeah, somehow all of Alabama's and Notre Dame's previous titles are accepted as "fact," as are all the screw jobs (such as FSU stealing the title from Notre Dame in '93).

    When they go to four teams in "semifinal" bowls and a plus-one, that's enough for me. Strikes a great balance between the regular season having tons of meaning and a team still having to win the championship on the field.
     
  9. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    The series of highly disputed national championship debates in the 1990s, such as Notre Dame-Miami-Colorado, and the aforementioned Florida State-ND one are what inspired the BCS -- besides money -- wasn't it?
     
  10. BrianGriffin

    BrianGriffin Active Member

    For me, if would come across as whiny if it weren't so dang true.
     
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  11. JackReacher

    JackReacher Well-Known Member

    See, I think he can -- and does -- speak the truth while at the same time coming off as annoying.
     
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  12. MrHavercamp

    MrHavercamp Member

    I would say "the constant bitching about it" comes from the point you made just before that -- "it's far from perfect." What's wrong with championing a better system?
     
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