Whose Champion?
Hmm… (Source)Florida took care of business Thursday night and Herban now how has 2nd "title" in four years.
We’re not here to say that the Gators aren’t a fine team. There’s no question they’d open as double-digit favorites against the Buckeyes (and justifiably so). But the finest? Who knows?
In the BCS’s little over a decade of existence, you can say it probably got it right four times or so. And even then, it’s just nothing more than a good hunch.
Please write your congressman. Jam up the AM airwaves. Bankroll a phone bank. Do your part to bring us a playoff system of some kind.
And for all of Tressel’s struggles in the big one-and-overs, he’s that much better of a coach in a playoff system.
It’s late, and I can’t think. Do you think Tressel would do better or worse in a playoff?
The moment Tress retires, I want the AD to throw bling, bitches, and the property rights to half the damn state at Meyer. Ohio State, UM, and Notre Dame are here dream jobs. From here on out, my rooting interests are for Ohio State to do as well as possible (of course) and for UM and ND to be good enough to not want to fire their coaches and hire Meyer. I request you all root accordingly.
I like JT in a playoff for the simple reason that it’s more of a mundane 2 or 3 game journey instead of some uber-hyped finale.
His record at YSU speaks for itself.
Ah. I agree, provided he mixes things up a little bit. Playoffs won’t render his occasional predictability irrelevant.
That being said, I’ll take Tressel over everyone save Carroll and Meyer in almost every instance.
I like Tress in a playoff too…..especially one that starts soon after the season ends.
In order to get the college presidents on board, the playoff would have to be in December- they wouldn’t let football stretch through January, into February. So, Tress has a week or two to prepare for opponents, and they have the same; as opposed to the 5,6 weeks now.
Sadly, there’s more to it than that. The only way college presidents and ADs – including the otherwise-awesome E. Gordon Gee and Gene Smith – will agree to a playoff is if they find a way to have one that guarantees unequivocally that they will be paid more than they are currently paid by the BCS. Until then, we’re SOL, and we’ve got this fucked up system.
Personally, I’d be fine with paying 50 dollars a year as an alumni for a “playoff fee” so they can fund the damn thing/make off like the bandits they are. Schools like Ohio State, Florida, Michigan, USC and Texas, with huge alumni bases, will make a fucking killing. I’m willing to pay for a playoff if it means no more end of the year bullshit like what we’re getting.
No way in Hell I want Urban here. Guy just reeks of a slimey, whiney used car salesman. I can’t stand to even look at him when they pan to him on the sideline. I just see total jerk written all over him.
wtf, here= his
as much as i hate to say it, i think florida is the legit best team in the country. they beat bama, they beat oklahoma, and would in all probability beat texas. big 12 offenses were indeed overrated and florida exposed the best one.
we still need a playoff though, the stupidity of the bcs annoys me more than the drama of a regular season without a playoff amuses me
also, is anybody going to be talking about stoops’ inability to win the Big Game?
No WAY!
Stoops only lost five BCS games in a row, and only three of those were National Championship games! Give Stoops a chance, man.
Now those Buckeyes….they need to be exposed. Alert the media.
The pre-game coverage really irritated me. Stoops has choked away opportunities since winning the national title years ago, but Ohio State – and only Ohio State – carries the “overrated” label. I know we’re hurt by our 1-6 conference showing in bowl games – and that is a totally understandable criticism – but the Big 12 hardly looked like a dominant conference this year. Northwestern absolutely blew the game, Ohio State absolutely blew the game, etc.
I’m in no way disposed toward a playoff at all, but that’s because I’m a traditionalist. I also don’t like the general direction D-I football seems to be moving, and I don’t like money’s saturation of the sport. I’d shuck it all and force folks to earn votes, like in the old days. I have no problems whatever with a split title – but I know I’m in a shrinking minority.
I may be mistaken, but I have always heard that the Ohio State job is an “out” in Meyer’s contract with Florida. Has anyone else heard that?
Someone over at Bucknuts posted his contract, now it wasn’t the newest version of his contract but it was his original when he started down there and there was no such mention of an “out” for any team in it…
I don’t know if he has an “out” but according to this article, his wife has no veto power for ND, tOSU and UM.
http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20081120/COLUMNISTS0306/811200343/1065/SPORTS
That’s probably what I’m thinking of. Thanks, TLB.
Joe I’m with you on that anti-playoff front. A few things really worry me, and you nailed one of them, MONEY. College football could lose all of its romance when playoff money comes into the picture, we’ve already witnessed what BCS money has done. Secondly conference championships could suddenly lose all value and importance if a playoff becomes a simply top-8 teams. These are not things to take lightly…
When he was at Utah, he had an out to go to Ohio State, Michigan, or Notre Dame. There is no such “out” in his current contract.
Is anyone else tired of seeing SEC win National Championships played in their home state? Why aren’t these SEC teams ever getting matched up against USC in the Rose Bowl? I would take back all my rude comments about the SEC if they could win that game……although I doubt they could against Petie’s NFL factory……as a matter of fact, I think good ol’ Petie is 4-0 against the SEC and 9-0 against the Big Ten………and I’m not sure if any of them have been close……..as much as I hate Pete and USC, I also envy their ability to put an @$$ whooping on non-conference foes.
Would have loved to see Tebow versus USC’s defense, would have been a great matchup…….to bad there is no playoff.
Not gonna happen for another 5 years, at least. NCAA is making too much coin off this mess.
Last night’s game only confirmed to me that USC is the best team.
Florida is fast becoming like Miami in the mid-late 80’s with all their trash talking and recreation management degrees.
USC is the best team, they have 12 NFL draftees and the senior leadership.
Maybe now people will get off OSU’s nuts, Oklahoma plays TWO big games a year, thats Texas and their bowl game. In the last four years now they are 1-7 in those games. 6 of which are BLOWOUTS. Not to mention the year they were throttled by Kansas ST. and still got to play for the title.
At least we lose to top teams and eventual champs, year in and year out OKLA. isnt even the best team in their conference, yet still get more love than teams that CRUSH them like USC.
The BCS can suck a banana!!!!!!
I don’t know if anyone caught it last night, but as time was winding down and Florida was clearly going to win, the commentators started blowing Stoops about how difficult it is to make it to the title game and/or a BCS game every year and that Oklahoma should be proud of what they have done, etc….
What!?!?!? So Oklahoma is at least as big of a choker in BCS games as OSU, but they get accolades while we constantly get told how we should have never been there and our conference sucks and we suck?? National hatred against OSU? Perhaps.
A co-worker of mine is fed up with Bob Stoops. He said he would trade for Jim Tressel anyday. He said at least Coach Tressel beats his rival.
On that note, I was think about Michigan’s downfall this morning listening to the radio. How many of you think Michigan’s downfall has to do with Tressel closing the Ohio pipeline. The HBO special a few years ago highlighted the problem Ohio State had keeping the in-state talent. This has hurt Michigan as much as anything. We can now answer the question Speilman posed, “What would Michigan football be without Ohio.” Tressel has also been able to pick top recruits out of neighboring states as well. This has created a top heavy conference.
On the radio they were talking about Pete Carroll hurting the PAC 10 by scooping up all the top notch talent, which actually made the conference weaker and un balanced.
It all sounded good, I am not a recruiting guru, so I am not quite sure how Michigan is doing in regards to recruiting in Ohio.
RichRod hasn’t had much success recruiting Ohio players. I think their 09 class has one Ohio player that would be good enough to get an OSU offer, Isaiah Bell. Tressel pretty much handpicked what he needed out of the state, but we’re all still crossing our fingers on OT Marcus Hall.
IMO Michigan is having a harder time landing recruits from their own state, and we can credit that to the rising success of Dantonio and the Spartans.
Actually, Rich Rod can have Bell! He is by far the worst Ohio recruit Michigan picked up. i am however, upset that he landed Toussaint and Turner. Toussaint would have been lost in the depth charts at RB so he isn’t a HUGE miss, but he will be a solid player. Turner on the other hand might be a kid that comes back to bite us. The DBs we have or picked up in this class are outstanding, but the kid is still REALLY, REALLY good and will be an impact in Ann Arbor from day 1.
Turner is one guy RR out-and-out beat us for.
Turner went to UM cuz he was virtually a lock to walk in and play. I dont give a shit what your rating is , you need to prove yourself capable of producing on the field in the B10. I dont want a kid who thinks they SHOULD walk right in and start. Id rather him want to learn from the older guys, and if he is good enough so be it. Cissoko was also Mr. World for UM and he didn’t make a huge splash. And wheres “white lightining McGuffie”? This will be DickRods downfall. He’s selling miracle snake oil at UM. Have fun covering DeVier Posey, Turner. Hope the PT is worth four losses to the Buckeyes.
Let me just say I really, really hope you aren’t eating your words in two years.
FYI-McGuffie transfered to Rice, I believe.
I HOPE HARTLINE LEAVES
meyers dream jobs are osu, um, and nd but he has turned down nd once so i dont no if hed ever leave uf. why would leave that comfy positon? i would love to see him in scarlet and grey in about five years but come on tressel is such a good person. i dont we have appreciated him as much as we should. yea the last three years have been disappointing but he has giving us so much we should not be bashing him right now