And college football will remain a ****ing joke and the only good reason for watching it will be to gamble on it.
In the meantime, with the way it is set up now, they should really just declare whoever wins the SEC as the national champion and be done with it.
They could save a lot of time if they just did it that way....
I've never been a big proponent of the BCS, ever since the first time I watched a team that didn't even win it's own conference (Nebraska) play in the national championship game against Miami a decade ago...
However, all the BCS ever promised was that it would match up #1 vs. #2 for all the marbles.... how the teams get to #1 or #2 is in the hands of of the coaches, media, and computers.
Bottom line is this.... college football could play Rock, Paper, Scissors to decide the champion and it's STILL a lot better than the watered down version of itself the NFL has become... at least rivalries mean something in college football.
There are no rivalries in the NFL... they're only in the fan's heads. Rivalries in the NFL became extinct when free agency came along. Hell, look around... when you see guys like Jason Taylor and Brett Favre in Jet, Viking uniforms... it pounds this point home with the force of a sledgehammer... and that's only two examples... we could go a lot further into it...
Rivalries in college football are 100 years old... and filled with hate.. they only intensify as time passes... they get stronger... which is what makes the regular season mean as much as it does under the current BCS format. They stay with you for a lifetime... it's part of WHO you are. Prime Example: -- DeMeco Ryans was asked a few weeks ago if he hated the in-state rival Dallas Cowboys... his response? "No, I HATE Auburn".... I guarantee 98% of players in the NFL feel the same way.... no amount of money can change that about you once you've experienced it.
The business aspect of the NFL has made it atrocious.... it's all about "so and so is making more money than me"... *****, whine, cry, complain and hold out. It turns them all into big pu**ies. Guys like Albert Haynesworth making 100 million dollars and whining about having to play a position or technique that he "doesn't like"....
Get the **** outta here...
Am I REALLY supposed to be entertained by some idiot who changes his last name to represent a number in Spanish.. meanwhile waiting with baited breath to see what endzone dance he's spent conjuring up all week in practice? WTF?.. Are people really entertained by **** like that? I don't get it...
Guys like Peyton Manning, Drew Brees, etc. along with a few others are about the only thing that even makes the NFL tolerable... there's too many that ruin it nowdays.
The NFL was much better 30 years ago when guys played professional football as a means for putting food on the table.... and rivalries meant something. Personally, I'll always enjoy the last levels of PURE football more (high school and college)... Probably due to the fact that I have many years invested in coaching amateur/scholarship football players...
I have a 16 year old son that's a quarterback in 6-A... two years ago he broke his neck in practice taking a hit while diving for a catch. Let me tell you something, there are no words that can describe the feeling that comes over you as a parent when you SEE that happen...
Fortunately, it wasn't anything permanent... only a slight hairline fracture in his neck.. He wore a neck brace for 3 weeks and was out there selling out to catch footballs again a month later... for FREE.. because he loves the game. Meanwhile, around that same time, you had idiots around here defending a fake like Ginnger that was scared of his own shadow and doesn't have a fraction of the guts or moxy of my teenage son... a fake who was getting paid millions of dollars to do precisely that...
It's all perspective... but the NFL is a ****ing joke if you ask me... and it's getting worse. If the NFL didn't have a season next year due to a lockout, it wouldn't phase me one bit... Hell, I might even get a little more yardwork done if they do... I won't have an excuse to give my ol' lady anymore. She knows my Saturdays are off limits... especially when the Tide is playing in Tuscaloosa.. and always will be.
Now these pampered millionaires are bitching about an 18 game schedule.... Get your a**es out there and play dipsticks... Whether you're an offensive or defensive player, your unit is only out there for about 30 minutes every Sunday anyway... suck it up pansies... There's a lot of jersey wearing, pampered millionaire admirers counting on you...