[NU Sports] Sugar Bowl ...

[SjT (Stephen J. Truog)]

Well, looks like a big Bayou blowout for LSU over the
Evil Empire. Thanks BCS - Roll Tigers!:)

I tell you, LSU has a LOAD of talent there, but they
just seem to play so sloppy every time I see 'em on TV
- hence it's not the pasting that Michigan and SC put
on the Irish. But much like the Fiesta Bowl last year
where OSU jumped out to a big lead and then fell
asleep, the Irish may have made a game of it at half,
but the outcome was never really in doubt.

Instead of Fox constantly hyping the Notre Dame
"experience" and giving the Doh!mers a 30 minute
commercial during the last half of the rout, it'd have
been nice to see them raise the biggest question of
the night.

Isn't it time the BCS drops their preferential
treatment of Notre Dame and makes the Irish earn their
big to their (now-annual) bowl (loss) like every other
team? Surely Boise State's win showed that it's time
to give everyone a chance and the Irish should have to
earn that bid like every other school.

Remember that, had Rutgers won that OT game at WVU,
there would have been an two 11-1 teams in the top 5-6
(Louisville and Wisconsin ... both now 12-1) left out
of the BCS in favor of an Irish team that barely beat
two mid-bowl teams in UCLA and GaTech and got
clobbered by the two BCS bowl teams they faced.

They didn't play a tough schedule to earn the bid and
they certainly didn't show they deserved it on the
field. So it's time for the B(C)S to end these special
exemptions for the Irish to sneak into a B(C)S game
where they show time and time again that they don't
belong. It's not like they needed ND to sell tickets
in New Orleans.

They're giving them the big bucks they haven't earned
(nor will they share, unlike every other team in
conferences) and leaving more deserving teams out
who'd give us a better game. Oregon State, Ohio State,
LSU - how much more do they need to realize that
everyone should be on equal footing in terms of
getting BCS consideration.

BTW - I have never seen a team cry as much as the
Irish did that first half. Samardzija looked more like
Krybaby Kobe Bryant out there, screaming for a penalty
every pass play (when often it was #83 in blue pushing
off). And Weiss wasn't much better. It actually seems
like most of the calls have gone ND's way from that
early replay that even Terry Bradshaw could see wasn't
incomplete to the recent play where Zbikowski horse
collared ans spub the LSU player out of bounds and it
was LSU called for unsportsmanlike conduct for
responding. Sheesh.

Go Big Ten!
GO CATS!!!
-SjT

PS - With only one game left, Mark Ament and Neil
Kaplan are deadlocked for the bowl pool title and both
picked OSU. No one else is within one, so congrats to
both for winning the D'Wayne Bates Award. Mark did
better on Big Ten picks, only missing PSU's win over
the Vols - and Mark picked Boise State as well - but
Auburn, Georgia and Florida State's wins helped Neil
catch up and overcome his pick of Oregon.

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STEPHEN J. TRUOG
sjtruog at yahoo.com
GO CATS!!!

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