Wednesday, January 9, 2008

Cry Me A River....Again


so, Georgia President Michael Adams has went and declared all out Jihad on the BCS, leaking stories to the AJC, throwing news conferences, and calling for an eight team playoff to decide the national champ because the BCS is "undercutting the sportsmanship and integrity of the game." you can read that as "undercutting UGA's chances at winning a national title cuz you know they ain't winning the SEC next year...but 2nd place sounds like it might get you in". now i completely 100% agree that we need some kind of a playoff...probably more like 4 teams instead of 8 (because in most non-insane years it's usually easier to figure out who the top 4 teams are) but when you issue a challenge like this in a year when your school was the team left on the outside looking in, it all just wreaks of bullshit. Adams has been against a playoff for 20 fucking years and now that the Dawgs got left high and dry he's gonna do something about it (read that as do nothing about it because everybody knows the Big 10 and Pac 10 and Rose Bowl will never let this happen). now in 2004 when Auburn (a team that ACTUALLY won the SEC, AND went Undefeated...2 things UGA wouldn't know anything about this year) everyone said they were being crybabies....of course that was before Florida destroyed Ohio State in a National title game and ESPN became obsessed with SEC speed and dominance...but hey, those are the breaks when you're a life long Tigers fan.

anyways, although i fully support what Adams is trying to accomplish, it's hard for me to ACTUALLY take it seriously when the motivations are going to be looked at as completely self serving and not really for the "integrity of the game" or what the fuck ever. i'd much rather see the presidents of Big 12 or ACC schools leading this charge so that it wasn't so fucking transparent. all in all though this is allot of wasted time and effort because until the Big 10 and Pac 10 get left feeling the burn of being spurned for BCS titles when they felt they were deserving of them then nothing is ever really gonna happen, but everybody knows that if Michigan or Ohio State are sitting there with one loss in a wide open year like this one, then that healthy "East Coast Media Bias" backed by the Big 10 Homers at ESPN will get them into that title game. until you can fix that problem, then no playoff will ever have a shot.

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