Alright sports fans for the record, I am not a fan of the BCS, Texas, Texas Tech or Oklahoma. I do like OU better than the others but this love affair that Texas beat OU really matters is tyring. I know, I know. Texas beat Oklahoma on a neutral field but I remember sitting in the living room and watching Texas Tech beat Texas on November 1. I do realize Texas fans have a mental block on this but it's time to say, we didn't get screwed, we just didn't do what we had to do to get things to go our way (Texas was ranked 1 and Tech was 7, don't forget that). Oklahoma beat like opponents of Texas & Tech by more points and beat Missouri by 41 on a neutral field that Texas beat by 30 in Austin. I do believe the BCS had it right with putting OU in the championship game against Mizzou. It's time to get over it and wait. Texas fans, your team could still face OU again in the National Title game if Florida's win wasn't enough over Alabama. I don't think that's the way it will happen but it could very well happen that way.
But seriously, I think Boise State and Utah are really the teams getting screwed this year. All we ask in college football is for 2 teams to go through their schedules undefeated and that's what these 2 teams did. They are the ONLY 2 undefeated teams in the country and they should play for the National Title with the system we have now. It will never happen but it should happen. And I noticed that both teams played about the same type of preseason schedule that OU, Texas and Tech played.
In the age of the BCS and all the griping and whining, it seems to me that the coach who can get out more and whine to the media more gets the most attention. He puts the perception his teams is getting more screwed more than others while others are just going out and killing their opponents. I don't think there is any need to make signs with a score on them to tell us what we already know or rent planes to fly with a score on it. I think those things just make the overall team and fans look desperate and downright stupid. This is supposed to be college football, not how to Bitch and Complain 101.
Every team that's complaining this year should have done what Boise and Utah did this year. Finish every game with a WIN. Don't drop interceptions or forget to tackle a guy with no time left. Show up, especially when you're the number 2 team going to Norman. Win on a neutral field against your biggest rival and a lower ranked team. Just win and if you don't and there is a 3 way tie, live with the system the conferece set in place and YOUR coach and school voted to approve.
And the last time I checked, I haven't seen the Boise or Utah coaches doing the circut whining, printing up cards with scores on them or renting planes to complain about them getting screwed or trying to pursuade voters to go "their" way. All they did was win and that's what every 1 loss team should have done, finish all their games. Only then would you have a right to complain about getting left out.
Sunday, December 7, 2008
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