Outrage
Not only is the BCS refusing to risk TCU or Boise ruining the bowl games of one of their AQ conferences, they pit them against one another when they just played each other a year ago in the Poinsettia Bowl. The conservatism (spinelessness) of the BCS does not bode well with the
risk taking nature of college football. TCU is not excited...you could see it in their faces when the announcement came down. "Manufactured enthusiasm" as a friend said and I must agree. They knew they were not going to get their chance against one of the big guys, and neither would Boise. No chance for either team to be like last years Utah...to show the nation they could stand up with the elite...no chance to pad to the case for the BCS to change its precious formula...no chance to prove themselves. Not if the all-powerful BCS has anything to say about it - and unfortunately they do.
Well Said
Yahoo! Sports columnist Wetzel said it well: "The [BCS] is designed to reward the big brands of the sport. Just as important as what you did this week, or this month, is what you did a decade ago. Perception is everything. The BCS sells this as fair....[The BCS] launched a clown-show website...that claims there can’t be a playoff because college football is incapable of figuring out how one might work. Sure, every other sports entity on the planet can do it, but we somehow can’t decide how many teams would be in it or where they’d play and so on? So stop asking. This is a ploy designed to create gridlock. It’s based on the idea fans lack basic mental competency."
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