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If you can’t beat ‘em, change the rules!
College football seems headed for Plus-One
SEC Commissioner Mike Slive is in charge of a conference that’s now won six straight BCS titles.
It was SEC Media Days, the annual gathering of hundreds and hundreds of people wandering around the Wynfrey Hotel in Hoover, Ala., with credentials (some of them even journalists) and the requisite visit to the ballroom with the media guides for each school.
There, each media member was handed a gift bag that included mostly stuff that was left in the hotel room for the maids. But there was a nice T-shirt that should have come with a glass of expensive wine and some brie.
It read — “SEC: We Are College Football.”
The subtitle could have read, “It’s our world and everybody else is just playing in it.”
The conference won its sixth straight national title Monday night and will be favored to win a seventh. But you know where the SEC really flexed its muscles?
It got the BCS off its collective rear ends.
They’ve seen enough. They’re tired of hearing, “S-E-C! S-E-C!” at the end of every championship game. The conference commissioners not named Mike Slive have announced that the BCS doesn’t work. Why? I can give you six straight reasons.
So they met in New Orleans not with the idea of tweaking their system, but of changing it drastically. They cannot assure that the SEC won’t have a seventh straight champion, but they can at least make it more difficult.
At least that’s the theory.
When we get to 2014, it seems likely there will be a Plus- One in place, which would mean a national semifinal, probably to take place at two of the current BCS sites. It would be followed a week later by the championship game.
The commissioners have fought the move ever since it was proposed by the SEC in 2008, but they didn’t know the SEC planned to hoard the market on crystal balls.
They have argued that a Plus-One system would lead to a true playoff with eight or 16 teams, and we have always replied, “So what?” They have argued that any kind of playoff would hurt the other bowl games, but the other bowl games continue to decline.
Ratings and attendance were down this bowl season. Some of it was caused by matchups, some of it by the economy, some of it by geography.
They have argued that fans can’t pick up everything and spend the money to travel to numerous games, but the Orange Bowl and Fiesta had 17,000 empty seats combined with only one game for the fans of the respective schools to attend. You’re telling me that semifinal games at those two sites wouldn’t have drawn more fans, better ratings and, most importantly, bigger bucks from television and sponsors?
They have argued that it would be tough on the student-athletes, as if they really care. And while making that argument, they ignore that school is not in session when those games would be played while school is in session when they’re traveling five times a year to distant locales brought on by conference expansion.
But in the end, they would have continued those arguments in the face of facts if the SEC hadn’t created a monopoly on confetti.
Would LSU and Alabama still have met for it all? Probably. But there would have been another step.
How do you know if its been a WILD Xmas Party?
THIS is how…
http://www.trutv.com/video/top-twenty-most-shocking/wasted-santa.html#link=DCZ
Is that Billy Bob Thorton?….”BAaaadddd Santa!”
Christmas, and the NFL
Christmas is right around the corner, and you know what that means: NFL cheerleading squads have busted out the Christmas themed uniforms.
Not a moment too soon, because I know you were all getting pretty tired of looking at gorgeous cheerleaders in “everyday” skimpy outfits, right? Okay, maybe not! Still, we do really like the skimpy Christmas “get-ups”. Thankfully, there’s a place to go where they RANK the best of The NFL has to offer!… http://www.totalprosports.com/2011/12/21/15-best-christmas-themed-cheerleader-uniforms-in-the-nfl/
Enjoy! Oh, and No Thanks to YOU PITTSBURGH!….Apparently suggestive hotties dancing on the sidelines distracts YOUR fans and players! So, jam THAT into your over-stuffed trophy case, and –!…Yeah, I know!…..I would too! — MERRY XMAS!
So, Tim Tebow got the starting job in Denver?
Seems Stephen ASS Smith, The racist ESPN resident asshole has been shoving a little crow down his cake-hole of late. He’s dumber than I thought!
http://search.espn.go.com/skip-bayless/videos/6
yeah, he and Skippy both are!
Seems like Mr Tebow has one Olympian/World class sports figure in his “corner”…
Lindsey Vonn a fan – and friend
“I got to see the Broncos’ amazing comeback win Sunday with Tim Tebow’s family, with his brother Robby and his dad and another brother in their private box. It was really fun. … A lot of people are wondering what’s up with me and the Tebows. I’m just friends with the family.”
- Olympic ski champion Lindsey Vonn
http://www.my-photo-blog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Lindsey-Vonn.jpg
Fat Guy Incarceration, uh, “Vacation” is over!
Apparently they take those posted laws SERIOUSLY in them Island Country’s now -Damn disappearing blondes! Anyway, we’ve been released and the lawyers tell us our time served should be enough.
So, We’re Back!…..We want to Thank all those who sent us letters of support, those really helped get us through the grim times. The things we’ve seen, and the things Doc had to do (for cigarettes) would surely scar a mortal.
Anyway, It’s Bowl Season! and that is the greatest sports Month of the year! We will get rev’d back up this week (still going thru some final delousing treatments) and have LOTS to share with all yee good little boys and girls! — thanks again for your patience!
….hey, yuh,…anyone know how Florida and Ohio State finished up their seasons???
Super Draft Week!
if you haven’t signed up for THE Super Draft! Well, then you’re an idiot!
There is hope for you though, but you’ll have to act fast! Visit www.cincysoftball.com and look for the Super Draft App/Form. It’s not Rocket science! Hell, even Doc managed it! So, sign up! The Draft’s draft is tomorrow night.
If you’re lucky, you’ll get to team up with The Doc himself! Usually when he’s on a softball field, hilarity ensues!
So, cya at MAB (mid-America ball yard) Thursday night, and then ALL day Saturday!
Don’t be like Ronnie Baird, and forever regret the decision to pass on this event! No one who’s ever played in this tourney, didn’t have a good time
Cleveland has this Bar
http://fatguysbarandgrill.com/default.aspx
Soooo, maybe there IS a reason to go to Cleveland, now??