Posted on 11/28/2005 3:52:48 PM PST by LisaMalia
I hear Temple's looking for a conference.:)
I don't mind the automatic bids, so long as everyone has one.
I don't think the little guys will get represented without them and without the WAC, CUSA and MWC conference champs, then you miss out on TCU (MWC), Fresno State (WAC) and whoever will be coming out of the CUSA championship game.
they aren't actually.
They are entering the MAC next year.
One game, big deal, as opposed to the number of games on TV that schools like Texas, Ohio State, Michigan, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Miami, USC, UCLA, or Notre Dame, etc., get throughout the entire season. College basketball is even worse. ESPN shows the Big Sky Conference tournament at 3:00 in the morning via tape delay.
The Tarnished Domers will get a bid because their AD and other school officials were able to drive a hard bargain with the BCS (thanks in large part to their exclusive NBC contract). As long as they are bowl eligible and can smell the top 10, they just about get whatever they want. No need to join a conference for them. Just play Army and Navy every year, don't screw up, and voila! No team bothers me more than ND. They haven't earned or deserved one iota of what they've gotten in the past 30 years.
I would love for Miami to be a media darling though. Oh that it were true :) Perhaps someday...
Uhhh, why would you say that? Did you see Gary Barnett's press conference after Iowa State lost, putting Colorado into the B12 Champ Game? He looked about as happy as a guy who just won a raffle, with the prize being the chance to wrestle an angry bear. The Buffaloes didn't even bother to show up for last year's game in a similar situation. This year's Texas team is better than the Oklahoma team that pulled Colorado's pants down and spanked their pasty, white bottom. Do you have reason to believe that this year's game will be any different?
Uhhh, when you score 42 points and lose, it aint the offense's fault. They DID exploit the USC defense. It's just that the USC offense is so good, they have been able to overcome their defense getting exploited.
They didn't on a couple drives where USC shut them down when their defense needed a break.....
And they didn't when they had the ball on that final drive.
There was a very obvious hole RIGHT UP THE MIDDLE against USC in that game. Why they didn't run the ball up the middle every other play is a mystery to me. USC didn't have a prayer at stopping it, yet Pat Hill continually went back to the pass and Pinegar isn't that type of QB yet.
Actually, ESPN will be showing playoff games each week and the championship game. Live. Really!
Come on. Notre Dame has a brutal schedule, year in and year out. Additionally, every team gets up for them like it's the Super Bowl. Say what you will about the Irish, but they don't play a soft schedule.
Until you have a Tourney College FB is just bad Fantasy FB.
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And they didn't when they had the ball on that final drive.
I guess we have a different definition of "exploit". Evidently you believe a team has to score every time they have the ball in order to "exploit" their opponent's defensive weaknesses. By that definition even the Indianapolis Colts don't often "exploit" defenses. They have to punt every once in a while, too.
I'll stand by my statement that if you score 42 points, you have "exploited" an opponent's defensive weaknesses and should win. If you don't, it would mean that your defense is getting exploited to an even greater degree. Again, that would indicate a problem with your DEFENSE, not offense.
yeah that is generally what exploit means.
And if you don't exploit the other teams weakness enough to win, then what did you do?
USC sure as hell exploited the fact that Fresno couldn't stop them on the ground either.
Of course then Nevada snuck up on Fresno, but that's another story.
Not really. Exploit means "to make productive use of". Fresno exploited USC's defense to the tune of 42 points. Unfortunately for them, USC exploited their defense for 50 points. BOTH teams exploited their opponents' defensive weaknesses.
yeah but USC exploited them MORE.
When USC couldn't move the ball by other means, they were running it with Reggie Bush off of the left End.
When Fresno couldn't move the ball through the air, they continued to throw it.
LOL. Is there an echo in here? I just said that!
apparently....
And Fresno was unable to exploit them enough to win.
LOL. Yeah, I'm sure after the game the defensive players were sneering at their offensive teammates and saying things like "42 points???!!! All you could score against the #1 team in the country, the team that hasn't lost in like 3 years, is a lousy 42 points????!!! You LOSERS!"
It's the only fair thing to do. Just like in basketball we'll hear whining from the bubble at large teams that don't get in but if you don't win your conference don't complain about not going to the dance.
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