[NU Sports] Never again should we hear ...

[Alan Abrahamson]

You know, Stephen, you want to be, um, careful with your logic ... because
we didn't play Ohio State in 1995 ... but we absolutely -- thanks to Tim
Biakabatuka and those 323 rushing yards, were regular-season champions of
the Big Ten.

On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 9:48 PM, SjT (Stephen J. Truog) <sjtruog at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Not sure you can determine a regular season champ using an 8-game schedule
> out of 12 teams ... yeah, MSU was 7-1 and UW 6-2, but had they played a
> full rotation, who knows.
>
> Sparty lost out on Pasadena last year using some rulebook tiebreaker ...
> this year at least they had a chance to make it to Pasadena on the field.
>
> Their regular season matchup was still one of the best games of the year
> and exciting. The upsets like NU over UNL were just as shocking. And the
> big games like UW/PSU just as meaningful.
>
> The people in favor of a playoff have never claimed that it would make the
> regular season less exciting or less meaningful (and I would argue that
> league title games have shown that it doesn't) ... but OPPONENTS of a
> playoff system have used those claims.
>
> And they are now the ones who have rendered a regular season "game of the
> century" meaningless by giving Alabama a second shot at LSU and a title if
> they win. They're the ones with the hypocrisy here.
>
> So the B(C)S has destroyed the bowl tradition and now it has also
> destroyed the "every game counts" mirage of the regular season ... what
> defense is there of this system again??? A playoff would make more money. A
> playoff would do no more harm on the "student" in student athlete. A
> playoff would keep all of the controversy and talk over who was left out,
> who had an easier road, etc.. A playoff would keep all of the meaning and
> excitement of the regular season games.
>
> The B(C)S couldn't even get the RichRod Bowl right and gave us
> VaTech/Michigan. Yawn.
>
> This is a crap-tastic new low for this system. I am now fully donning
> elephant headgear and rooting for Slick Nick Saban to win the rematch and
> national title so we hear the uproar from the Bayou about how ridiculous it
> is. Maybe once an SEC school gets robbed like that, maybe then the people
> will wake up and realize how truly awful this "worst of both worlds" system
> actually is. B-C-MESS!!! B-C-MESS!!!
>
> GO CATS!!!
> -SjT
>
> PS - On the plus side, an SEC team will finally lose a title game this
> year. :)
>
> * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
> STEPHEN J. TRUOG
> sjtruog at yahoo.com
> GO CATS!!! GEAUX SAINTS!!!
> Super Bowl XLIV Champions!
> ________________________________
>
>
>
> ________________________________
>  From: "shawn.folkes at comcast.net" <shawn.folkes at comcast.net>
> To: SjT (Stephen J. Truog) <sjtruog at yahoo.com>
> Cc: NUSPORTS <nwu-sports at tssi.com>
> Sent: Sunday, December 4, 2011 9:40 PM
> Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Never again should we hear ...
>
>
> No, the opposite is true.  A playoff essentially took away Michigan
> State's right to the Big Ten championship.
>
> I'm not arguing in favor of an LSU/Alabama rematch.  I don't think they
> should do a rematch.  But, I'm also saying you can't have it both ways.
> I'm really disappointed the Big Ten has a championship game when it plays
> cross-division games during the regular season.  It makes Michigan State's
> regular season win meaningless.  So, a playoff system has issues too.
>
> Shawn
>
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: "SjT (Stephen J. Truog)" <sjtruog at yahoo.com>
> To: "shawn folkes" <shawn.folkes at comcast.net>
> Cc: "NUSPORTS" <nwu-sports at tssi.com>
> Sent: Sunday, December 4, 2011 9:48:27 PM
> Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Never again should we hear ...
>
>
> Exactly - a playoff did not diminish what happened in the regular season.
> But the B(C)S just has done that.
>
> So the argument usually used AGAINST a playoff, has in fact been flipped.
>
> GO CATS!!!
> -SjT
>
> * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
> STEPHEN J. TRUOG
> sjtruog at yahoo.com
> GO CATS!!! GEAUX SAINTS!!!
> Super Bowl XLIV Champions!
> ________________________________
>
>
>
> ________________________________
>  From: "shawn.folkes at comcast.net" <shawn.folkes at comcast.net>
> To: SjT (Stephen J. Truog) <sjtruog at yahoo.com>
> Cc: NUSPORTS <nwu-sports at tssi.com>
> Sent: Sunday, December 4, 2011 8:37 PM
> Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Never again should we hear ...
>
>
>
> Wait....isn't that what just happened to Michigan State because the Big
> Ten had it's first playoff?  And, what was the point of Michigan State's
> original win over Wisconsin?  Didn't the Big Ten playoff diminish Michigan
> State's win.....?
>
> Shawn Folkes
>
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: "SjT (Stephen J. Truog)" <sjtruog at yahoo.com>
> To: "NUSPORTS" <nwu-sports at tssi.com>
> Sent: Sunday, December 4, 2011 7:52:36 PM
> Subject: [NU Sports] Never again should we hear ...
>
> ... that a playoff would diminish the regular season of college football.
>
> The B(C)S has just done that, by dismissing LSU's win AT Alabama earlier
> this year and giving Nick Saban a month to prepare for a rematch.
>
> Yawn.
>
> It's nice that Michigan got chosen, but VaTech??? They couldn't even give
> us the RichRod Bowl???
>
> The B(C)S has already made 99% of bowl games -- even the sacred Rose Bowl
> -- meaningless exhibitions played in front of 20,000+ empty seats.
>
> Now they have rendered the regular season -- long considered the best
> argument against a playoff -- meaningless as well.
>
> What a joke. The Big Ten and Pac 12 need to just withdraw from this joke
> and play 5-6 bowls between the two leagues in a bowl week leading up to the
> Rose Bowl. More people would tune in to that anyway.
>
> GO CATS!!!
> -SjT
>
> PS - Urban Meyer and his SEC ilk owe the Big Ten an apology for the
> anti-Michigan/OSU rematch whines of 2007 ... so do the voters that year ...
> at least that was a rematch people actually wanted to see.
>
> I hope Bama wins by a field goal and shows everyone what a joke this B(C)S
> actually is.
>
> * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
> STEPHEN J. TRUOG
> sjtruog at yahoo.com
> GO CATS!!! GEAUX SAINTS!!!
> Super Bowl XLIV Champions!
> ________________________________
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