[NU Sports] B(C)S ratings and attendance ...

[hakirsch at aol.com]

To me the big negative is too many bowl games. When there were about 5-6 total  bowl games on NYE and New Years day, they were exciting and tradition reigned and I could recite the story for each game. There was The Cotton with Lindsey Nelson announcing and Texas playing someone. There was the Sugar either on NYE or NYD with Alabama playing someone.  There was the Rose with BT/Pac 8 and beautiful Pasadena. The evening finished up with the Orange and a  team from Florida playing Kansas , Nebraska,or maybe PSU.  ND was somewhere wherever needed to fill a spot.  The Gator Bowl was thrown in there opposite one of the others on NYD and that was about it

  But then the liberals ruined it . They have called for dumbing  down the standards so that 70 teams now play.  It's like giving every kid who participates a medal rather than only the ones that do well.  And you thought it was the money and overpaid bowl committees 

Harry 
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-----Original Message-----
From: "SjT \(Stephen J. Truog\)" <sjtruog at yahoo.com>
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Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 21:42:57 
To: Michael Vance<michael.vance at att.net>; nwu-sports at tssi.com<nwu-sports at tssi.com>
Reply-To: "SjT \(Stephen J. Truog\)" <sjtruog at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] B(C)S ratings and attendance ...

Explanation? The B(C)S sucks so much that it destroys all it touches -- even the Rose Bowl. Sure, it's not gone altogether - but it's a shell of its former self.

Look guys, I'm not romanticizing or waxing nostalgic of the good old days -- all I'm saying is that what's happening now sucks. Really sucks. Go forward to a playoff. Go backwards to traditional bowls. Cancel the bowl season altogether and end with the regular season. I don't care what path we take - let's just get the heck out of this B(C)S rut/hellhole we're in now. It's awful. Attendance is down. Ratings are down. Even the Cartel leaders see that this system is a disaster and are scrambling to find some fix that will allow them to keep their stubborn pride and not admit that they created the worst system possible.

I know y'all ask why I rail against the B(C)S so much every year and take such delight it its (too slow, but eventual) demise ... but I'm just amazed so many of you are satisfied with the status quo and make every excuse possible to try and defend it. You're B(C)S enablers! :) You keep making up new excuses why this or that wouldn't work ... or you chant the ESPN line about how the system worked this year ... or repeat fears on how dangerous something else would be ... but you never actually look at what's in front of you. Be honest and look at how many college bowl games you watched in the last decade. Mine has declined significantly. I'll always love college football, but the end of every season just plain sucks now. I dunno. Maybe I'm missing the joy of half empty Orange Bowls, watching the "U" take the field in Pasadena, watching a 6-6 CUSA team against a 6-6 MAC team or having a team declared the "champion" when they couldn't even win their own
 conference.

Or maybe you all just have a higher pain tolerance than me ...

But like I said, I'm loving all the cracks that are showing in the system - I don't necessarily care what happens next, just that this system ends as soon as possible.

GO CATS!!!
-SjT

PS - Not understanding all the NFL hate either ... especially with the round of games coming up this weekend (well, aside from that Houston/Baltimore game) -- now that Bowl Day has been destroyed by the B(C)S, the divisional weekend in the NFL playoffs usually is the best pigskin event on the calendar -- four thrilling games leading to Championship Sunday. Can't wait!
 
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STEPHEN J. TRUOG
sjtruog at yahoo.com
GO CATS!!! GEAUX SAINTS!!!
Super Bowl XLIV Champions!
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 From: Michael Vance <michael.vance at att.net>
To: nwu-sports at tssi.com 
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 10:23 PM
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] B(C)S ratings and attendance ...
 
So what's the explanation for the ratings decline for the Rose Bowl and how does that bolster your case for a return to the "good old days?" You had the true champs from the Big Ten and Pac-12. It was a compelling speed vs. power matchup. Their rankings were comparable. How does that fit in to the SJT view of how things oughtta be?

On 1/10/2012 3:00 PM, SjT (Stephen J. Truog) wrote:
> > From the LA Times ...
> Rose Bowl (Oregon over Wisconsin 45-38): 11.8 rating.
> In 2011, the Rose Bowl between TCU and Wisconsin drew an 13.1 rating. The 2010 Rose Bowl between Ohio State and Oregon drew a 13.8.

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