Georgia Nation is very upset, some with the BCS and some with Richt's whining

You should check out their boards, both the Rivals and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. But the J-C itself excerpted several sportswriters' takes on what happened in the BCS, and included this from the LA Times, which is absolutely right on:

"Nobody should have a gripe — nobody. . . . Georgia Coach Mark Richt had a beef, wondering why voters decided last week his team could be No. 4 but decided this week it couldn't play for the national title.

" 'I do think we were unofficially disqualified for not winning our conference,' Richt said.

"Solution: Win your conference."

— Chris Dufresne, Los Angeles Times

Mark Richt is right that there is no rule that you have to win your conference. There IS, however, a human element in the BCS formula. Coaches and sportswriters get to decide whether winning the conference is important to them, and obviously it IS.

 

Georgia fans are ripping an Atlanta Journal Constitution reporter cause he said the BCS got it right...It's embarassing the way Georgia fans have reacted to all of this...I would've expected that from Bama fans but not Georgia.

 

It's not just that Georgia did not win their conference; they did not even win their division. That was big.

 

Well all these coaches/fans site the Nebraska and Oklahoma examples of losing their conference championship and still playing in the NCG as their justification. What all those people conveniently forget is the uproar that caused and the subsequent change in BCS policy allowing less weight on computer numbers and putting more control in voters hands.

Richt even said this morning on ESPN that there should be a rule stating that. Pretty much shot down his argument himself. I don't blame him for politicking for his team. Every coach does it. It is a bit funny how many fans argue as if everything is equal. Conference size, strength, OOC, ranked teams played, wins, losses, etc.

If this was the NFL these schools would have a legitimate gripe. If my aunt had balls, she would be my uncle.

 

I'll say it again--I do NOT like Mark Richt AT ALL and I have always disagreed with those who say he's such a nice guy. I don't think it was funny or classy or appropriate for the team to get a penalty after scoring on Florida. I don't think Richt's whining was appropriate (and neither did Jimmy Johnson and Barry Switzer BTW). I thought at the beginning of the season that they'd probably fire Mark Richt at the end of the season because the team seemed to have fallen off a cliff. They were impressive by the end of the year but THAT IS NOT A CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON. But the Dawgs are howling mad. It's actually almost laughable.

 

The situation was ruled by common sense.

 

All Georgia had to do was beat Tennessee. I think when the human voters looked at that game and how Phil blew them out if undermined any possible sympathy votes they could have picked up. We had our beef last year but I don't remember this kind of whining and uprising from our fans. Of course we did get to play ND in the Sugar Bowl and not Hawaii. I guess if Hawaii does an upset on Georgia we won't hear a whimper from those Dawgs.

 

In my uneducated opinion Richt's argument that there is no rule that a team has to win its conference to be voted into the NCG is just as weak as LSU's argument that we are undefeated in regulation. But what annoys me the most is the assumption that since GA was ranked 4th last week, they naturally should move up to 2 this week (which sounds like something a crappy BCS computer would do). There are a lot of people who voted Mizzou and WV 1 and 2 who needed to pick a new 1 and 2. And maybe they don't think GA deserves it. That's how you don't move up to 2. Simple, ain't it?

 

Because of that argument is one of the reasons that the BCS was created...Before the BCS, the polls would just move teams up by default...What the BCS has done, especially with the computer is look at the entire season and not just what have you done for me lately...That's what I don't like about Richt's argument...He knows that if you don't play, it's not a given that you will move up...He's being a little hypocritical I think.

 

Hawaii is going to end all of this of this whining. :wave:





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