Gonna say Auburn, think it will be fun to watch Auburn fans have their only national title stripped from them a year or 2 from now. Anything that gives Mike Slive and the NCAA mud for their faces is ok with me.
Really....I hate auburn.....but how can you pull against the sec?? This is a chance for YET ANOTHER sec team to make a statement and win a BCS title! Prove once again that the SEC is by Far and away the best conference out there!
Great point uncle......that's exactly how I feel....we all know that the pac 10 does not play defense, thats why I think that Auburns defense while middle of the road in the sec, will be the best defense oregon see's all year, I think auburns defense will shock oregon.
I don't see how the answer can be anything but AU...I don't want to hear the Pac 10 folks bragging that their team beat the SEC champion. In addition, I want the SEC victory streak to continue. The SEC has never lost a National Championship game since the BCS was created in 1998.
Great post, and as Tusk pointed out, for me, I would rather them not win it then have to give it back down the road. That would be a bigger embarrassment than not winning it at all. Nothing is saying that Cam/AU will be punished down the road for the scandle that surrounds them, and more than likely they won't, which to me is the biggest of all injustices to come out of all of this. As Slive has stated the bylaws need to be changed as quickly as possible, so that this can never happen again. That statement alone says it all. The wrong decision was made, but it was the only decision that could be made.
What is wrong with the NCAA Bylaws, honestly? They were good enough to hold Reggie Bush accountable for his parents choice of housing. They were all encompassing when the USC running back took a free ride across campus in a golf cart. The Bylaws are more principles then specific do or don't. They were created to cover intent, attitude and gray area's of college life. The AD at USC, Haden, is more then beside himself with this, all of a sudden, new, explanation of what these bylaws will not do. The ACC and Big Ten Commissioners are equally beside themselves, have said so and they sleep in the same room with the NCAA. In an attempt to legitimize the seccg and National Championship, they have not only failed to accomplish said goal, they have managed to turn the spotlight on the hypocrisy and underhanded manner they chose to enforce such behavior. Now with our new found definition of "solicitation"out there, it all but guarantees the "inmates will be running the asylum." The NCAA's biggest problem is trying to figure out how they get their keys back. And people wonder how Al Capone stayed in business all those years.
Great points on both sides. Especially LaSalle and Tusk. I'm going to begrudgingly pull for Auburn. More specifically, I'm going to pull for the SEC. If it turns out that Auburn is innocent, great. Win-win. If not, they will have to give up the title and the Heisman. That would be SOO satisfying to see, and the only loser in that scenario will be Auburn. The SEC will still have the reputation of being the strongest in the land. And I don't believe people across the country will start thinking the entire SEC is dirty, because they don't apply that logic to the Pac 10, even after the USC scandal.
Most fans of other conferences have historically thought the SEC as dirty. It's only been recently that the SEC has been shrugging off that label. The loser in all this is the SEC member schools. The SEC has the reputation for being the strongest because it has proven itself year after year on the field in the BCS era. AU may very well do that again, but the cloud that hangs over their program diminishes the other school in the conference who have won the right way. As far as USC, no one applies that logic to the Pac 10 because the conference pretty much sucked from top to bottom until recently.
