Once Again, the BCS Shows It Sucks

With USC’s pounding of Illinois last night, the failings of the BCS showed themselves again. So I propose the following replacement:

There will be 6 bowls in a playoff form: Rose, Fiesta, Sugar, Orange, Capital One (with the Citrus name restored), and the Cotton Bowls. The winners of the 6 major conferences will automatically win a berth to the Rose, Fiesta, Sugar, and Orange Bowls with the Big 10 and Pac 10 Champs facing off in the Rose Bowl (I don’t really give a shit above who plays in the other ones). In addition, there will be 4 at-large bids, with those teams facing off in the Capital One and Cotton Bowls. The winners of those games will face the lowest ranked of the conference champs in the Fiesta, Sugar, and Orange Bowls.

From that point, it will follow a typical playoff format with the venues of the other 6 bowls rotating hosting the National Semis and the National Championchip Game.

All the other bowls will continue to be played as they are now.

Under this system, everyone wins. The NCAA gets to whore itself out even more to the highest bidder for the rights to televised the games. And ESPN gets to keep it’s cash cow of pointless bowls named after a pizza chain’s website.

Of course, the university presidents will oppose this because, “Students will miss too much class.” Bullshit. The “students” on the basketball teams involved with March Madness miss a whole month of class (assuming that they even go to class) and during finals time to less. Hell, bowls games are played while schools are on “Winter” break.

So there you have it, my alternative to the BCS.

What’s the Point of the BCS?

With the creation of the National Championship, the only real function of the “Series” is to provide a rotation of the venue for the game. And that’s it. Hell, one bowl, the Rose Bowl,  is  extremely independent of the other games going as far as having it’s own TV contract separate from the rest of the series. That’s fine with me because in my opinion the BCS needs the Rose Bowl far more than the Rose Bowl needs the BCS. Without the Rose Bowl no one would take the BCS seriously, less than they do now.

I would rather see the National Championship Game be like the Super Bowl and have venues vie to host the game so they can end this BCS crap.

Are Some Teams Destined to Suck?

I’m watching the Lions vs. Packers right now and have concluded that the Lions will never win a Super Bowl. Why? Because they are destined to suck, much like the Cardinals. In fact, the Lions and Cardinals are the only teams to have been in existence since the start of the Super Bowl to never to make it to one. Technically, Cleveland hasn’t been to one either, but they don’t count because the team that was the original Browns (Ravens) did go to a Super Bowl and that they didn’t exist during the late-90s.

Every sport has them, the teams that always suck. Baseball has the Rays, Royals, pretty much the entire National League… Basketball has the Clippers, Warriors, Bobcats, and Bucks. Hockey has, well hockey has been pretty good about every team having a good season every once in a while.

For a lot of the teams mentioned it’s the ownership to blame. Others seemed to be just destined to suck. No matter who’s the coach, the players, they still some how manage to be bad and always find new ways to be bad.

Finally, the NFL did something Right

I actually have to give the NFL credit for allowing the Pats vs. Giants game to be broadcast on CBS and NBC as well as the NFL Network. Originally it was only going to be on the NFL Network which was not an issue for me since apparently I’m one 6 people in the country that actually get the NFL Network which is funny because I never watch it because I view it as a complete waste of time outside the actual football games.

And of course, the NFL turns the whole thing as a giant promo for the NFL Network. But as a promotional tool I thing it backfired since it showed the public that the NFL Network has the worst play-by-play team in all of football with Bryant Gumbel and Cris Collinsworth. Plus they might want to rethink their ad campaign featuring the two guys at the diner as it portrays the typical NFL Network viewer and a single bum that does nothing more that sit on his ass and watch shows from NFL Films, so basically a loser.