[personal] Re: [Husker] BCS - Am I alone?

[andy at knipp.com]

I firmly believe in a limited playoff.  Top 6 teams, no guarantees to 
conf champs, ND, etc. Of course how do you choose the 6 ? Polls/BCS ? 

Top 2 get byes, next 4 play, winners play nos 1&2. Winners play.

Can't do best of 3. There are good reasons we do not have 3 games in a 
row, Fri-Sat-Sun. 

That limits the number of possible winners. Still gives the regular 
season champs a break for winning.

me

>----Original Message----
>From: Sklarbodds at cox.net
>Date: Dec 5, 2006 13:06 
>To: "Husker List"<husker at tssi.com>
>Subj: Re[2]: [personal] Re: [Husker] BCS - Am I alone?
>
>Hello Husker Fans,
>
>SD> Even 1 game doesn't determine which team is better.  Do you 
really
>SD> think KSU is better than UT?  Do you really think UCLA is better 
than
>SD> USC?  How about ISU when they beat NU in
>
>Sorry forgot to finish this sentence before I sent it.
>
>What it should have said, "How about ISU when they beat NU in 1992?"
>NU was ranked #7 and ISU was something like 2-6 coming into the game
>(sorry I can't remember exactly.)"
>
>Sorry to reply to my own post.
>
>-- 
>Go Skers,
> Skylar                            mailto:Sklarbodds at cox.net
>
>SD> Hello Husker Fans,
>
>ML>> Problem is, define "best". What criteria can you use to 
determine who
>ML>> is "best", unless it's whether or not one team would beat 
another if
>ML>> they played? And how can you know if one team would beat 
another,
>ML>> unless you actually play the game? If your position is that a 
person
>ML>> can determine if team A is better than team B without an actual 
game
>ML>> involved, then we should just skip ALL the games, not just the 
bowls.
>
>SD> That's still a pretty flawed argument for a playoff though. You 
claim
>SD> that a playoff is the only way to determine who is the best team, 
well
>SD> IMHO, the ONLY way to determine who the best team would be over 
14
>SD> games, not 2 or 3 in a playoff. That just determines who the 
'hottest'
>SD> team is at the end of the year.
>
>SD> Take Pittsburgh last year. They didn't have a very good season, 
but
>SD> they squeaked into the playoffs and had a great final 4 games.
>SD> Especially after the way they've started this year I don't think
>SD> anyone in their right minds would call them the 'best' team last 
year.
>SD> They simply got hot at the end (and were helped by some phantom 
calls
>SD> I might add).
>
>SD> So adding a playoff DOES NOT get you the best team, it just gives 
you
>SD> a champion.  I would argue that the BCS does a better job 
figuring out
>SD> who the BEST team is, (even though again we're still looking at
>SD> crowning a 'champion').
>
>
>
>SD> The best way to determine who is the best is to see who plays the 
best
>SD> over a long stretch of times because you can only get lucky so 
much.
>SD> That's one thing I love about baseball.  NOBODY makes the 
playoffs in
>SD> baseball by a fluke.  There's no such thing.  Even then, they 
still
>SD> play 5-7 times just to make sure that the better team moves on.
>
>SD> Since the sport doesn't allow a best-of-series, IMHO, this is the 
next
>SD> best thing.
>
>
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