[NU Sports] Re: Utah and the playoff ...

[cherron604 at aol.com]

Agree 100%

If Utah wants to win a National Championship, join the Big 12 or the Pac 10

If I were a Utah fan I might feel mistreated, but as an NU fan I do not care at all

The BCS is designed to move as much money as possible to the power conferences, like ours, and then to the schools in those conferences, like us.

We played a game in a warm weather city, lost, but gave a good showing and had a good time.  That is my only concern.

Life is often not fair.  In the early days, If you wanted to be an All-American, or win a National Championship, you had to be out East, preferably Harvard/Yale/Princeton/Penn.  I am sure there were well-coached teams in other parts of the country, and there were probably more talented players than those who made All-American, but those were the rules.  And football dealt with them, and remained strong.

So let's have:

- FBS - Football Bowl Subdivision (Pac 10, Big 12, Big 10, SEC).  I suppose we could let in the ACC and the Big Least also.  And the forgotten Notre Dame

- FWS - Football Whiners Subdivision (everybody else in 'old' Division I).  These guys can have a 16-team playoff and have all the fun they want.  Some might even watch the games...

The FBS might produce about 40 'bowl-eligible' teams so 20 bowls (Orange, Sugar, Rose, Fiesta and BCS Title Game, and maybe 15 more).  All bowls in warm weather cities.  Rose Bowl to always maintain that Big-10/Pac-10 relationship.  No more MA
C/Mountain West bowl games.

Chuck Herron   Tech '85


-----Original Message-----
From: Arthur Miller <artmiller1 at hotmail.com>
To: thehaze at earthlink.net; nwu-sports at tssi.com
Sent: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 11:02 am
Subject: RE: [NU Sports] Re: Utah and the playoff ...




 think the article is ridiculous.  Everyone's a victim, it seems.  Well, I'm 
ot buying the argument that a 12-0 team is always better than a 12-1 team.


f you ask me, the BCS conferences need to separate from the rest of I-A and 
orm our own football subdivision.  There are too many teams in I-A as it is, 
nd this a large part of the difficulty in finding an equitable way of 
etermining a champion.  As a general rule, the BCS programs were playing 
ootball 100 years ago, and made this sport into the incredible spectacle that 
t is today.  Why should they have to share revenues with programs like Buffalo 
nd Central Florida that have been in I-A for only a few years?


hat's my 2 cents.


 Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 07:25:09 -0800> From: thehaze at earthlink.net> To: 
wu-sports at tssi.com> Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Re: Utah and the playoff ...> > A 
errific column - I agree with it 100%> > -----Original Message-----> >From: 
SjT (Stephen J. Truog)" <sjtruog at yahoo.com>> >Sent: Jan 6, 2009 7:15 PM> >To: 
wu-sports at tssi.com> >Subject: [NU Sports] Re: Utah and the playoff ...> >> 
When Obama and Utah agree on something, you KNOW the B(C)S is a bad idea and 
eeds changing.:)> >> >Aside from the typical Big Ten bas
hing, John Feinstein 
ad an interesting column on it in the Washington Post today:> >> 
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/06/AR2009010600092.html> 

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