BCS Question?
It was brought up in a comment over at EDSBS, is the BCS taking joy away from fans? The post included a YouTube video of the final blocked kick that Florida had against South Carolina. (Hopefully one day I can get Aaron to show me how to link YouTube videos). The video showed the Gator faithful go into a frenzy after the play, and the players jumping into the crowd to celebrate. Everyone should experience that type of emotion at least once in their lifetime. Those feelings are great, but after the celebration the fans are forced to think, "how did this win look to the voters?" Does all the focus on the BCS standings take the focus off the field, take some of the joy out of the wins, and magnify the losses?
-Florida has to worry about style points, in stead of pulling out another win in the SEC.
-Oklahoma has to play the "what if" game (and they deserve to), in stead of enjoying this team that has overcome adversity and injuries.
There are plenty of other examples to go along with these two, and I know there is going to be controversy in any system. It just seems like the BCS makes people focus on the negative. Is there anything that can fix this problem and focus on the all of the great games we are treated to week in and week out? I'm really not sure what could be done. What do ya'll think, does the current BCS system rob fans of some of joy they should experience?
It was brought up in a comment over at EDSBS, is the BCS taking joy away from fans? The post included a YouTube video of the final blocked kick that Florida had against South Carolina. (Hopefully one day I can get Aaron to show me how to link YouTube videos). The video showed the Gator faithful go into a frenzy after the play, and the players jumping into the crowd to celebrate. Everyone should experience that type of emotion at least once in their lifetime. Those feelings are great, but after the celebration the fans are forced to think, "how did this win look to the voters?" Does all the focus on the BCS standings take the focus off the field, take some of the joy out of the wins, and magnify the losses?
-Florida has to worry about style points, in stead of pulling out another win in the SEC.
-Oklahoma has to play the "what if" game (and they deserve to), in stead of enjoying this team that has overcome adversity and injuries.
There are plenty of other examples to go along with these two, and I know there is going to be controversy in any system. It just seems like the BCS makes people focus on the negative. Is there anything that can fix this problem and focus on the all of the great games we are treated to week in and week out? I'm really not sure what could be done. What do ya'll think, does the current BCS system rob fans of some of joy they should experience?
posted by Matt at 8:01 PM
4 Comments:
Absolutely. There are 66 BCS-eligible college football programs. There are 119 Division 1-A football programs, so right there we've already got 53 football programs who have absolutely no chance at ever winning a National Championship. 53 schools whose players, fans, students, and alumni will never have their team on the cover of a stupid Sports Illustrated subscription offer.
Of those 66 programs, you've realistically got 20 teams who have a year-to-year shot at winning it all. When any of the other 46 programs (ahem, Rutgers) have a great season, they are not taken seriously, because after all, what have they ever done before this year? 99 teams don't get a fair chance at winning a National Championship.
So is the BCS fair? Not a chance in hell. Not when 2-loss LSU is higher than undefeated Boise State. Not when 99 teams are just hoping to play in the week between Christmas and New Year's Day.
I'm with Jon. No more football.
I've got complete tired-head over this subject. I can't decide what I think. It pretty much sucks any way you cook it. There's always going to be controversy. There's always going to be teams that get snubbed.
We're just lucky we don't root for TCU or Boise St. or one of those teams that no matter how good they play- will never have a shot.
Also, if there was no BCS, I think fans would think about negatives like style points and close losses the same way they do now. There's always going to be polls that determine championships. And fans are always going to wonder how their team's performance affected their standing.
For the record, I'm past the "what if" game. That just brings out anger. I'm too busy enjoying this great turnaround and keeping my mind of full of true college football joy.
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James, your point brings up a theory that I've been thinking about for years. I would like to take those 66 teams and add another 20 or so. Teams like TCU, SMU, Rice, Boise, Frenso, ect., that have a football history but are not quite playing with the big boys right now. So you have about 85 teams, and you cannot play anyone outside of those teams. Hopefully, that would improve those other programs by putting them in the same class as the big boys. It would give us a lot better games week in and week out, unless Texas/Bomar State is your cup of tea. We could also evalute teams better b/c they wouldn't play pointless games agianst UNT, The Citadal, and Buffalo.
It sucks for schools like UNT, ULL, and the others, but they could go down to 1-AA and be competive. Or there could be another league of those types of schools. If a couple of teams become dominate move them up and move some teams down?
Anyways, don't know if that made sense, but I think it might have potential to better college football.
Jon- if there was no football, what would I do. Try to be a better husband?
P.S. LSU is ranked above Boise b/c they lost to Florida and Auburn on the road. Boise is a middle of the pack team (at best) in any other conference. They've beaten Oregon State, but what would they do if they had to play with that same emotion next week against Oregon, the next week Arizona, the next week USC. No team that has to come back to win against San Jose State should sniff the BCS. Did I mention that the only reason I feel this way is that I don't want Texas to play them in the Fiesta Bowl (If we can take care of business)? Nothing personal agaist Boise, though.
Maybe we should have a tournament. But then people would be pissed that they did not get a bid (see March Madness).
Maybe we should have a second game after the national championship game if the loser was previously undefeated (see Jon's argument).
So maybe the two best teams should have a best of three series (but physically and time wise how big of a beating would that be?)
Maybe we should just make everyone have conference championships and the champs play eachother. But there are teams in the SEC that would stay at home that are better than Rutgers or Boise State.
Basically there is no good way to go about this and someone is always going to cry about their team getting the shaft.I think they should just develop a mystery system and not tell anyone what the critera are and how the rankings are determined. Let's have a random lottery ranking. Who cares if you win or lose.
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