AP Does Its Part (washingtonpost.com)
Oh there are so many problems with Wilbon's arguments . . . Where should I begin . . .
"The Bowl Championship Series has been accused of a lot of things, most of them bad. But the Associated Press' disassociation from the BCS amounts to an indictment of the entire system."
Indictment of the system? What do you mean? It's bad because it makes your fellow sportswriters the subject of pressures no intended with the poll, ie BCS football $$$ over what's right. Maybe the writers need to get some integrity and not SELLOUT.
They system is fine considering the alternative. Do you want lock-in bowls where none of the top 3 teams would be facing each other this year? What happens when there are 2 legitimate champions and the rest of the teams suck? What if there are 5 teams that go undefeated? A Playoff would screw someone ...
"The BCS will appoint some blue-ribbon panel that will vote during the season and help select, at the end of next season, the two teams that will play in the Rose Bowl, the next "national championship game. Had there been such a panel this year, undoubtedly, its representatives would have found a way to move Utah and Boise State out of attractive games and give another seat at the banquet table to a team similar to 7-4 Pittsburgh, which nobody outside of Pennsylvania wants to see play. "
A Blue Ribbon panel to determine who's in and who's out. That sounds a lot like the NCAA Basketball tournament selection committee which you think is the greatest thing since sliced bread.
Arguing about something that didn't happen is moronic. How do you know that they wouldn't have put in more mid-majors?
"Still, the AP has undermined all that because the AP poll is the one that truly matters. Its panelists actually vote; I know because I participated in the poll in 1986 when I covered the national college football beat for The Washington Post."
The AP doesn't matter in the NCAA College Basketball world.Who cares. So 18 years ago you covered college football for one year (which then the Post had a terrible sports page) and you're some expert. Oh I forgot, your childhood in the midwest and your college daze at Northwestern have truly prepared you know and love football.
"See, there's one way to do away with most of this junk: settle the thing on the field. You can still have the polls; it's nice to argue over them during the regular season. But in the end, duke it out on the field. The bowl season, since the implementation of the BCS, has become so tiresome. College football reaches its peak in November, not January, because the lobbying and sniping over voting eventually wears us out. The college basketball season builds and builds to an end-of-March climax, and who has ever complained about March Madness?"
They do settle it on the field, during the regular season! The regular season still matters. You get terrible games during the year because they don't matter. Look at the premeire matchup on Christmas day between the Heat and the Lakers. Does the actual game matter? Doe either team have a shot of actually making or missing the playoffs if they lose this game? Of course not, it's just a spectacle where we hope for a fight.
I'd agree, the College Football season is over by Thanksgiving. That's its peak. The rivalry games between Auburn/Alabama, Ohio State/Michigan, etc. It's my favorite time of the year when a rivalry team pulls an upset. That's what college football is about, not the moronic idea of a tournament.
Oh there are so many problems with Wilbon's arguments . . . Where should I begin . . .
"The Bowl Championship Series has been accused of a lot of things, most of them bad. But the Associated Press' disassociation from the BCS amounts to an indictment of the entire system."
Indictment of the system? What do you mean? It's bad because it makes your fellow sportswriters the subject of pressures no intended with the poll, ie BCS football $$$ over what's right. Maybe the writers need to get some integrity and not SELLOUT.
They system is fine considering the alternative. Do you want lock-in bowls where none of the top 3 teams would be facing each other this year? What happens when there are 2 legitimate champions and the rest of the teams suck? What if there are 5 teams that go undefeated? A Playoff would screw someone ...
"The BCS will appoint some blue-ribbon panel that will vote during the season and help select, at the end of next season, the two teams that will play in the Rose Bowl, the next "national championship game. Had there been such a panel this year, undoubtedly, its representatives would have found a way to move Utah and Boise State out of attractive games and give another seat at the banquet table to a team similar to 7-4 Pittsburgh, which nobody outside of Pennsylvania wants to see play. "
A Blue Ribbon panel to determine who's in and who's out. That sounds a lot like the NCAA Basketball tournament selection committee which you think is the greatest thing since sliced bread.
Arguing about something that didn't happen is moronic. How do you know that they wouldn't have put in more mid-majors?
"Still, the AP has undermined all that because the AP poll is the one that truly matters. Its panelists actually vote; I know because I participated in the poll in 1986 when I covered the national college football beat for The Washington Post."
The AP doesn't matter in the NCAA College Basketball world.Who cares. So 18 years ago you covered college football for one year (which then the Post had a terrible sports page) and you're some expert. Oh I forgot, your childhood in the midwest and your college daze at Northwestern have truly prepared you know and love football.
"See, there's one way to do away with most of this junk: settle the thing on the field. You can still have the polls; it's nice to argue over them during the regular season. But in the end, duke it out on the field. The bowl season, since the implementation of the BCS, has become so tiresome. College football reaches its peak in November, not January, because the lobbying and sniping over voting eventually wears us out. The college basketball season builds and builds to an end-of-March climax, and who has ever complained about March Madness?"
They do settle it on the field, during the regular season! The regular season still matters. You get terrible games during the year because they don't matter. Look at the premeire matchup on Christmas day between the Heat and the Lakers. Does the actual game matter? Doe either team have a shot of actually making or missing the playoffs if they lose this game? Of course not, it's just a spectacle where we hope for a fight.
I'd agree, the College Football season is over by Thanksgiving. That's its peak. The rivalry games between Auburn/Alabama, Ohio State/Michigan, etc. It's my favorite time of the year when a rivalry team pulls an upset. That's what college football is about, not the moronic idea of a tournament.
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