Tuberville speaks out against BCS system, ESPN

Plenty important... There are plenty bowls besides the BCS. If there were no argument against a playoff this wouldn't be a discussion - don't be so short sighted.

Whether polls don't start until midseason, or even till bowl season means nothing - people will still form opinions before the season begins & carry them through the season.

 

of course the games of teams will several losses are important. but only to them and their fans. no one else cares. so in the real world, those games dont matter. might as well be ole miss vs. UK.

there is no argument about bcs vs playoff. just the bowl committees running home with the ball so no one can play. oh, and espn goes along with it like a toadie.

 

here's a group of voters to listen to

this is more like a poll that may have value. read near the bottom

 

true, but you certainly can point out the hypocrisy of the networks that do so purely for their own self-serving interests. The point becomes magnified when you consider that we're talking about amateur sports.

Amateur athletics don't deserved to be manipulated in the pursuit of corporate profits. Either pay the players or remove the bias. Attempting to straddle the fence will only lead to the ruination of the sport as we know it.

 

To be honest with you, I didn't read about the poll. I couldn't get past this.

 

You'd be extremely naive to believe that Big Media isn't in it for the money. The fact that he may be a minority among the voters doesn't change the fact that the overwhelming majority of voters have a limited exposure to the 117 Div-I teams that compete. If they don't gather their information from the media, then where do they get it?

 

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Texas proved itself nationally by winning at Ohio State. USC proved itself by winning at Notre Dame. All SEC schools have proved this year is that they don't like to play tough nonconference games.

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LSU did, and the Tigers put up 35 points and 434 total yards at Arizona State, but no one disputes the belief that LSU has the best talent in the SEC.


Ok, Someone help me out here. He uses ONE game played by the best team in the PAC 10 and ONE game played by the best team in the Big 12 to extrapolate as proof that those CONFERENCES play tough nonconference schedules. Now he does say that LSU played a tough nonconference game, but he will not use that same criteria to give credence to the entire SEC nonconference schedule. This doesn't even take into account the fact if there were no conferences, just rankings, anyone playing schools with the rankings that the unmentioned SEC schools play would have a tough schedule. Why does 1 non conference game weigh more than conference games when it comes to determining SOS? Is a tough non conference game magically more difficult than playing 3 or 4 top 10 teams a year?

 

its just too old of a story for me to get worked up about the media bagging the sec's OOC games.

without getting into reasons for a "weak" SEC OOC schedule-

a quick look at the PAC10's OOC opponents showed 13 good programs (including Arkansas and Northwestern, but not Illinois)

SEC's OOC opponents-13 from good programs, but there are several close calls (Wyoming, UAB, Wake Forest).

Dont forget that the PAC10 has 2 fewer teams, so by this crude analysis, PAC10 OOC schedule is tougher.

brief look at # of OOC opponents from top 10 programs-

7-4 PAC10

 

http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051030/SPORTS/510300347/1002

latest article from the wripter of the quoted article in the OP.

got an email from him thanking me for writing and to tell me he quoted me.

start the line near tiger stadium if you'd like my autograph.


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