[Husker] The fed bringing the heat on the BCS

[David Strong]

> From: Ken Oliver <ksterling at mindspring.com>

> Before you have a playoff vs. BCS discussion, you have to
> decide what you want to determine from it. 
> 
> I want to decide who the best team in the country is. 
> 

You want to decide who the best team in the country is and you think the existing process is good for that?  

Anyway, the purpose of any championship game or tournament or anything is not to determine who the best team is.  It is to determine who wins the championship.  In the 1985 NCAA Men's basketball tournament, the Villanova Wildcats played the Georgetown Hoyas in the championship game.  Georgetown had already beaten Villanova 3 times that year, easily every time.  No one, not before the game, not after the game, would ever say that Villanova was a better team than Georgetown.  But that night, Villanova played the game of their lives, beat Georgetown, and won the National Champhionship.  It was glorious.  So who was the better team?  Who cares.  Who was the national champion?  The Villanova Wildcats.  In the same tournament, when the North Carolina State Wolfpack outplayed, and Jim Valvano outcoached, a remarkably superior Houston team, it was a game for the ages.  Who was the better team?  Not the team that won the national championship. Who was the
 champion... NC State.

You want to determine who the best team is?  Maybe elections and computers are for you.  I'll take the game.

Dave