The 2008-2009 BCS-FBS National Championship Tournament

I think you tend to ignore the fact that sports are entertainment.

 

It really is incredibly annoying that you even say anything to me. Maybe that's why you keep doing it, because you know that stupidity annoys me more than anything else in the world.

The suggestion that I'm somehow ignoring the role that entertainment plays in sports is typically idiotic. Do you see me saying that they shouldn't be televised? That fans shouldn't be in the stands? That said, entertainment is not the primary reason why sports are played. Entertainment is the primary reason for the WWE, but not real sports. Sports are played primarily for the sanctity of the competition. The fact that a bunch of couch potato assholes want a playoff because they get bored and want more games to distract them from their pathetic lives is not as important as the integrity of the game itself. Not damaging the regular season and rewarding the teams who are most deserving are far more important issues than indulging television audiences.


By all means, tell me how a playoff would benefit the student-athletes. You'd have more games risking more injuries for guys who do not get paid. You'd be devaluing their regular season accomplishments. You'd also be condemning all involved but one team to end their season with a loss. As I've said before, try to imagine what Boise State felt after upsetting Oklahoma. Now try and imagine what they would have felt if a playoff caused them to get crushed by Florida the next week. How would they have felt then? Playoff advocates don't give a shit about the sport or the athletes, they care about themselves and their own boredom.

 

How bout you shut the fuck up and get off my thread if this is all you're gonna do? I could care less what you think, I want to see the playoff, and so does alot more people than you. In other words, KISS MY ASS!

So I used the BCS as a pattern....SO FUCKIN' SUE ME!!! But you can't come up with something better, other than "The BCS is Better" (which is a cop out cause you cant think of anything). Just because I do not agree with it to put two teams in a national title game, doesnt mean Im not for the entire program for it to be used in another way.

 

Good grief, this shouldn't be difficult to understand. It's fine for you to prefer a playoff, just come up with something other than the BCS rankings to use for seeding.

 

why?

 

I already explained this, plus it should be self-evident to anyone with half a brain. The calls for a college football playoff are predicated on the idea that the BCS rankings do not accurately select the top two teams. Therefore it's absurdly hypocritical to then turn around and pretend that the BCS rankings are accurate when using them for seeding. Either they're accurate and no playoff is necessary, or they're not accurate and you shouldn't advocate using them at all.

 

I understand. And if you allow 16 teams in the playoff then it becomes an argument over the 15th, 16th, 17th, and 18th ranked teams instead of an argument over the #1 and #2 teams.

 

But there has to be a better way to seed the teams. I just used the BCS as a pattern, and Collin goes apeshit. One could use the three human polls (AP, ESPN, and Harris) plus use a computer ranking like Sagarin....and get an average on the rankings/seeds.

 

If the Panthers win tomorrow, I hope they just shut it down, pat themselves on the back and feel good about how they won that game. Trying to do anything more might risk losing that warm fuzzy feeling they will have.

 

This is what I'm talking about. You clearly don't understand what I was saying. Because you're not aware of your own intellectual limitations you think you understand it, but you clearly do not. Sometimes it takes you a few days to grasp a concept and sometimes you just never understand it at all.

Look, sports is not about everyone winning and everyone getting a trophy. In my own personal experience I always learned most and was motivated most by failures in sports rather than successes. But anyone who has seen the emotional reactions of players and family members to post-season performances can tell how much the victories mean and how much the losses hurt. If a team had a good regular season but didn't prove themselves to be one of the top teams in the country, then why subject them to ending their season with a loss? Some people excuse it under the pretense of giving everyone a chance, but that's not realistic. We're talking about throwing small schools to the lions just for the entertainment of couch potatoes. Meanwhile winning a bowl game others consider meaningless must be a great feeling to those involved.

You play the regular season to establish yourself and your team. If you deserve to keep playing at that point, then you should get to. If you've been one of the two best teams in the country, then you should get to play for the national championship. If you've been good but not great, then you should play in a "good but not great" postseason event, you shouldn't be given an opportunity for a national title that you don't deserve, especially when you're only there to provide viewers with another game to watch on television, one in all likelihood where you will get destroyed by a team much more deserving than you are.