So Ron Cook puts the fact that Pitt and other teams that go 6-6 will be going to a bowl at the top of his outrage list for college football. Something that everyone has been well aware since it was announced that they were going to 12 game seasons in CFB and there are just way too many bowls.
Looking for it…
Looking for it…
Searching…
Nope, can’t find the outrage. Can’t work up a lather. Hell, I’m having a hard time working up a lather about the other sins he lists:
Penn State going to the Outback Bowl — big deal. It’s a Big 11 tie-in bowl and that’s where they landed in the pecking order. Why does that make them undeserving? Compared to who else in the conference? They may get creamed by LSU or someone like that, but that doesn’t make them “undeserving” so much as point out how top heavy the Big 11 was. Non-BCS bowls are about money and what schools and conferences can bring the most fans for the games. The Big 11 has among the largest fanbases and has historically traveled to bowls well.
Potential Michigan-tOSU rematch for the BCS National Championship. Wait? You mean the BCS is screwed up? Damn, I thought the system was fine. Again, old news.
It’s the feigned outrage in the column that amuses me. These are old complaints wrapped up in an attempt at mouth-breathing anger. Don’t necessarily disagree with them, but spare me the weak emotional effort.
ron cook is a moron, nothing he has ever said is worth a pot to piss in…….
Moron is a kind term, asshole is better like it.
Now, let’s look at the bowl breakdown by assumptions. As in, let’s assume the Big East gets two BCS berths (Louisville and the winner of WVU-Rutgers), Notre Dame gets a berth, and Michigan either gets a title game or BCS bowl berth. That takes out the Gator Bowl from the Big East and Notre Dame, leaving the Big 10 #4 playing there (the Big 10 #3 will be boosted to the Capital One Bowl). For the Big East, that leaves the PapaJohns.com Bowl (assuming a MAC team doesn’t take its place), the Motor City Bowl (which will most likely be a Big East bowl game this year), the Texas Bowl (which would take the WVU/Rutgers loser), the Sun Bowl (but I see a Big 12 team being taken over a Big East team for that), and the International Bowl. So that’s 5 non-BCS bowls, but more realistically 3 or 4. If all 5 bowls take a Big East team (or somehow the Gator Bowl, having a free spot open if it isn’t interested in the Big 10 #4, takes the WVU/Rutgers loser), then Pitt will get a bowl game, as undeserving as it is. However, should that not happen, Pitt won’t get a bowl game, as the International Bowl would take a more competitive 7-5 Cinci team over a roll-over-and-die 6-6 Pitt team.
Hopefully they fire the DC before the L’Ville game, ah, what the hell, wishfull thinking on my part.
Everyone, have a happy thanksgiving.
Why punish the players for the team’s .500 record? It’s been made pretty clear by the ten million posts I have read on this site calling for coaching changes (mine among them) that the problem wasn’t a lack of effort on the player’s part.
I say let them go if they get asked and give the kids an extra 45 days of practice and a small vacation.
But, now that almost every team is playing 12 regular season games the NCAA should make seven wins the bowl-eligible standard.
