[NU Sports] I don't care about about BCS $$

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All of which is exactly why the Big Ten, Pac-10 and Rose Bowl had maintained
a contract separate from the BCS TV contract all these years.  I would be
interested in knowing why and how this change got made and exactly what
pressure was put on them to agree to it since they had the ability to take
their marbles and go home as the Pac-10 commissioner threatened to do
several times last year.

As far as I'm concerned the BCS has been a disaster from day one.  It has
diminshed the value of a conference championship as well as all bowls other
than the national championship game.  For most schools' fans now, if you
don't play in the national championship game, then the season was not that
successful, where before the BCS success was measured by conference
championships the standard by which I think schools should still be
measured.  They should also do away with conference championship games,
another abomination dreamed up by and for television (well, Roy Kramer and
television).
Mark

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On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 7:07 PM, SjT (Stephen J. Truog) <sjtruog at yahoo.com>wrote:

>
> Brad -
>
> I actually agree 100% with your analysis - I fully believe the B(C)S is the
> "worst of both worlds" and would love to see the Big Ten and Pac 10 give the
> rest of the conferences a great big mooning and keep our Rose tradition. A
> January trip to Pasadena is better than every other bowl combined! And I
> also agree that if we do wreck this tradition, it better be for a REAL
> playoff at the very least.
>
> > I couldn't care less whether the Big 10 makes BCS money or
> > not. I do mildly care that the BCS takes two Big 10 teams,
> > because in theory that could help Northwestern get a better
>
> I agree we usually get screwed anyway by bowl committees - but we do get
> screwed less when we get two teams in the BCS - plus, the added money for
> our league (and through sharing, for NU) is never a bad thing.
>
> I was simply saying that a lot of people on ESPN were perceiving this as a
> slam at the Big Ten, but I think it winds up actually hurting us far less
> than the Pac 10 or the Rose Bowl tradition itself.
>
> > bothers me. If OSU wins the Big Ten and goes BCS and NU
> > comes in second and winds up in the Barf Bowl while East
> > Carolina, SMU or Idaho is on Colorado Boulevard because of
> > this new policy, who cares about BCS money?
>
> Absolute agreement. Like I said, look no further than the Sugar and
> especially Orange (or the Cotton) to see how much the BCS can destroy a
> grand tradition. The Rose has avoided that for the most part (and the last
> big change - adding the fifth B(C)S game - actually helped Pasadena keep
> this by not having to have the title game replace the Rose Bowl).
>
> Don't throw that away, Rose Bowl committee!
>
> GO CATS!!!
> -SjT
>
>
>
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