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.

Clap On, Clap Off

Since the Chia Pet has been covered, I might as well discuss the other pop culture idol given to us by the good folks at Joseph Enterprises, the Clapper! Yes, the Clapper, helping your grandma turn off her TV without getting out of bed since the mid-80s.

What can be said about the Clapper that already hasn’t been said? No, really what can you say? Who cares, it’s a blog!

I’ve often wondered what would happen if you had your TV hooked up to the Clapper and when you had the volume up really loud and the Clapper ad came on? Would it turn your TV off? Is the Clapper designed to ignore its own ad? Will the world just explode from the pure paradox of it all?!

Wow, I have WAY too much time on my hands, and let’s be honest, you have too because you’re reading this damn thing. I know, you’re not suppose to piss off your audience, but hey if it works for Borat (R.I.P., actually I don’t really care, I didn’t find his movie that funny) why can’t it work for me?

With those thoughts I leave you with the world famous “The Clapper” commercial: