[NU Sports] Tide rolls, yawn!

[hakirsch at aol.com]

While some of you may call me crazy for asking, but to those out there advocating a football playoff what would suggest if an Ivy League school was rated in the top 4 (or 8) at the end of the season since I believe they self are self banned from playing in the post season ?
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-----Original Message-----
From: hakirsch at aol.com
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:21:09 
To: Mike Nolan<nolan at tssi.com>
Reply-To: hakirsch at aol.com
Cc: SjT \(Stephen J. Truog\)<sjtruog at yahoo.com>; Michael Vance<michael.vance at att.net>; nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com<nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com>; nwu-sports at tssi.com<nwu-sports at tssi.com>
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Tide rolls, yawn!

I have always enjoyed these discussions on who is # 1 which occur without a playoff system. Not that the NCAA tournament guarantees us the best with its system, but it does generate the best team under the given rules (ie who prepares their squad the best for an end of the season 3 week run). The only difference in football is there are few rules to go by. Only that the regular season counts a lot, with later being generally more valued than earlier and that the BCS championship game winner will be declared #1 by at least one poll.

Thus the lack of a playoff system not only keeps the chat boards probably busier than with one, but can result in more than one team legitimately claiming a first spot (although in my mind--not this year).  My only disappointment this year (besides NU's bowl loss!) is that we didn't have 3 undefeated teams going into the bowls again and arguing about who got robbed 

Harry 


------Original Message------
From: Mike Nolan
To: Harry
Cc: SjT \(Stephen J. Truog\)
Cc: Michael Vance
Cc: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com
Cc: nwu-sports at tssi.com
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Tide rolls, yawn!
Sent: Jan 10, 2012 8:05 AM

> SJT is more knowledgeable and certainly much more passionate about college =
> football than I will ever be .  But anyone waking up this morning and think=
> ing that the BCS system is flawed based on the evidence of the 2011 season =
> will never be happy with the outcome.  Does anyone not think that the S.E.C=
> . was not the best conference ?  Does anyone not believe that based on the =
> regular and post season (Bowls plus Championship game)  that the 2 top team=
> s weren't Bama and LSU ,whichever order you desire ?   =

All we really know is that in 8 quarters plus overtime, LSU was able to
put up only 3 field goals against Alabama.  How another top 10 team
like Okie State, Stanford, Oregon or even bowl-flop Wisconsin would 
have done is an unanswered question.  How high powered offenses like 
Boise State and West Virginia would have done is also an unanswered 
question.  West Virgina scored almost as many points against LSU as 
'Bama did, in half the time.  

Yeah, they're probably the two best defenses in the country
(ie, the best that money can buy), I'm not nearly as convinced 
they were (or are) the best two overall teams.

Those thrilling games by 'Bama against Kent State, North Texas,
Georgia Southern (that's not a proper name for a school, that's 
a railroad!) should earn a derisive comment from Gordon Gee, but 
I guess he's off getting another tattoo.  

Do I think a playoff is a better answer?  Not really, but I think
we'll get one within the next 6-8 years, and it won't quell
the complaints, just change who's complaining and what about.
--
Mike Nolan


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