The BCS fights back!!!!!!
deem...@aol.com
honkifyoulovejustice
> http://www.playoffproblem.com/
OK, so you can't tell who made the site by reading its pages.
That doesn't pass the smell test. Time for a WHOIS search...
Oh Jeezus, it's a goddamn Washington GOP Astroturf PR firm!
Deer Loard, it's enough to make you puke.
Registrant:
Trent Duffy
1000 Vermont Ave NW
Suite 900
Washington, District of Columbia 20005
United States
Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: PLAYOFFPROBLEM.COM
Created on: 05-Nov-09
Expires on: 05-Nov-10
Last Updated on: 11-Nov-09
http://www.hdmk.org/biographies/general/trent-duffy.html
Trent Duffy has nearly twenty years of experience in media relations,
strategic communications and public affairs, and has served in top
positions in both the White House and on Capitol Hill. In addition to
his government experience, he has provided media and strategic counsel
to a client list that includes the Sporting Goods Manufacturers
Association, Bracewell Giuliani, LLP, the Natural Products
Association, and Oldaker, Biden & Belair, among others.
Duffy served in the White House for four years, most recently as
Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Press Secretary. In that
role, he worked as a spokesperson and media strategist on numerous
public policy issues, including: economic policy, energy, health care,
homeland security, telecommunications, taxes and trade.
Prior to that, Duffy served as Communications Director for the White
House Office of Management and Budget. There, he developed and led
government-wide communications strategies for the President’s 2003 and
2004 budget, and was heavily involved in promoting the President’s
economic program, and the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003.
Duffy also has extensive experience on Capitol Hill. As
Communications Director for the powerful House Ways & Means Committee,
he developed a strong policy background and an ability to understand,
translate and persuasively advocate on highly technical issues such as
tax and trade policy, Medicare and Social Security.
In 2001, Duffy served as Press Secretary for the Republican National
Committee. He has also worked as Communications Director for Rep.
Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-NJ) and Legislative Aide to Rep. Harold Rogers
(R-KY). In 1997, he was a spokesperson for New Jersey Governor
Christie Todd Whitman’s successful re-election campaign. Duffy has
also worked as Assistant Manager for Federal Affairs at Parsons
Brinckerhoff, an international engineering consulting firm.
Reporters still frequently seek Duffy’s views on current political
news. U.S. News and World Report said he “easily gave the best quotes
out of the West Wing during his three years,” and that “reporters like
him because he was knowledgeable on tricky and technical issues... he
was also honestly blunt.” Duffy has been a guest on Fox News Channel,
MSNBC’s “Hardball with Chris Matthews,” CNN’s “American Morning,” and
C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal.”
McMahone
Everyone here needs to send them nasty comments in their comments box.
SNORKY
Yeah, so?
honkifyoulovejustice
Not a problem if you like Washington sleazeballs getting their
excrement-covered paws into college football.
I hate the BCS as much as anyone, but I don't want interference in
college football from the federal gubmint, even if it's in my favor.
Starcade
Who would participate?
Any school in FBS is eligible. All conferences in FBS are eligible.
Restricting it to the Big Six is no better than the BCS. This is for
all of FBS.
Automatic qualifiers?
11. The 11 FBS conference champions. Probably looking at a field of
24 or so.
Criteria for inclusion?
11 FBS conference champions. Remainder of field determined by a
committee -- no different than the March Madness.
Seedings?
Committee. Polls can be taken into account, but, just as in the March
Madness, the committee decides. (And just as in every other division
too of football, right?)
Where played?
First Round and Round of 16: Campus Sites
Quarterfinals, Semifinals, and Finals at the Four current BCS sites
plus the next three biggest bowls.
When played?
Finals: Saturday before the Super Bowl
Semifinals: Two weeks before that.
Quarterfinals: New Year's Day.
Round of 16: Third weekend in December.
First Round: Second weekend in December.
There's a two-fold canard here:
1) That any playoff would have to be 8 or fewer teams. Any playoff
would have to have at least 16, to cover the 11 FBS conference
titlists. I propose 24.
2) That most of the athletes in FBS football are students of any real
stripe.
If the latter were true, you'd see a call to stop this "ESPN games on
every damn night of the week" situation.
You can't have a playoff without ALL the FBS conference titlists. You
can't do that? Time to get rid of conferences out of FBS.
Forever change the bowl system? How about FOREVER BLOW UP THE DAMN
THING! I don't want every 6-6 podunk school with a reputation getting
to play in January. THAT diminishes the relevance of the regular
season! BLOW UP THE PRESENT BOWL SYSTEM!
Mike
honkifyoulovejustice
You can send a thousand billion kajillion emails, and it won't make a
rat's ass of difference -- I bet they'll all go unread, straight to
the bit bucket.
The site was made by a partisan Washington lobbying firm, and
someone's paying them to politically spin this issue. They don't even
have to reveal who the funders are, 'cause the lobbying firm set
themselves up as a "non-profit organization" explicitly for the
purpose of keeping their donors secret, just like many of the fake
grass-roots "Astroturf" campaigns in Washington. When they say "[This
site] respects the views of all fans and encourages an active and
healthy debate," it's a bald-faced lie.
Starcade
"It’s Successful: The BCS is the best format to match up college
football's number one and two teams while preserving the heritage and
success of the bowl system.
Prior to the formation of the BCS and its predecessors, the number one
and number two teams met in bowl games only eight times in 56
seasons. In contrast, since the conferences agreed to the BCS format
11 years ago, number one has played number two every year by BCS
measurements and, according to the AP poll, numbers one and two have
met eight times. The BCS is the best format ever devised to match up
the nation’s top two teams in a bowl game."
Several canards here: How many times in all these years have we had a
clear-cut 1 and 2? How many times, in the BCS Era, have we had a
clear-cut 1 and 2?
As I just got done e-mailing this joker, the BCS is designed to
DISQUALIFY teams from a championship opportunity they have earned ON
THE FIELD. A question for Mr. Duffy:
If we had a BCS-Conference program have undefeated regular seasons in
2009, 2008, 2006, and 2004 (plus single losses in 2003 and 2002), how
many national championships would they have played for under YOUR
"fair" system?
If Boise State defeats Nevada tomorrow and New Mexico St. a week from
Saturday, that will be their track record this decade. They have ONE
BCS _APPEARANCE_, and there's a good chance they'll be screwed again
out of even getting a BCS invite.
The BCS is designed so that a non-Big Six school never sees the title
again.
If the best two teams are the best two teams, they can win a playoff
and get there.
"College Football is More Popular than Ever: Thanks to the BCS,
regular-season college football has become a true national sport. And
the great traditions and great rivalries continue."
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! The sport is becoming more regionalized
during the BCS Era. The Big East and ACC have become near-
irrelevancies in the BCS in the last six years, and the Pac-10 is
pretty close too. In the last eleven years the BCS has been in
operation:
-- Only 11 schools have played for the national title.
Pac-10: USC (2004 (W), 2005 (L))
ACC: Florida State (1998 (L), 1999 (W), 2000 (L)),
Big East: Virginia Tech (1999 (L)), Miami (FL) (2001 (W), 2002 (L))
-- both were Big East at the time
Big Ten: Ohio State (2002 (W), 2006 (L), 2007 (L))
Big XII: Nebraska (2001 (L)), Oklahoma (2000 (W), 2003 (L), 2004 (L),
2008 (L)), Texas (2005 (W))
SEC: Florida (2006 (W), 2008 (W)) LSU (2004 (W), 2007 (W)), Tennessee
(1998 (W))
-- The SEC conference has the last three national titles, four of the
last five, and is 5-0 in BCS title games.
-- A school from Florida has been in the title game seven times.
Yeah, great national sport.
"Attendance has shot up 35 percent since the BCS’s inception—from 27.6
million in 1998 to 37.4 million in 2008.
BCS television ratings regularly surpass the NCAA basketball finals,
the NBA playoffs and the World Series. In 2009, 26.8 million viewers
watched college football’s title game between Oklahoma and Florida;
17.6 million watched the 2009 NCAA basketball championship game
between North Carolina and Michigan State. An average of 19.3 million
viewers watched each game of the 2009 Yankees-Phillies World Series;
game six had a peak audience of 22.3 million viewers. In the NBA, an
average of 14 million people watched each game of the 2009
championships between the LA Lakers and the Orlando Magic."
The nationwide sports landscape is growing tired of roidball and the
National Rigged-Ball Association.
"Fans and Players Love Bowls: The bowl experience is special for the
athletes, bands, cheerleaders and fans; it’s a unique multi-day
celebration they’ll savor the rest of their lives. No other sport has
anything like it. The 2003 Fiesta Bowl, 2006 Rose Bowl, and 2007
Fiesta Bowl are widely hailed as the greatest college football games
of all-time. Through the years, athletes have cited bowl trips as the
highlight of their sports careers. Why mess with success?
From the first Rose Bowl in 1902 to the 34 bowls played today, the
college bowl season is a unique American holiday tradition.
The bowl experience is enjoyed by 68 universities each year with more
than 7,000 student athletes and another 10,000 students participating
as band members or in other on-the-field ways. In absence of the bowl
system, many student-athletes would lose the opportunity. A playoff
would put the great traditions of the bowls at risk."
The 2007 Fiesta Bowl was a kick-and-scream job by the BCS. The Rose
Bowl is the only bowl that I think most college football fans would
miss under a playoff scenario.
But the tradeoff is simple: 68 universities DO NOT DESERVE that
experience. Every 6-6 team with a reputation gets a bowl. And you've
earned NOTHING -- for most schools in FBS, 6-6 is an abject FAILURE!
Don't reward failure.
And then the real laugher!!
"It’s Fair: Every conference has an opportunity to earn annual
automatic qualification into the BCS. At the beginning of every
season, every team has an opportunity to earn a spot in a BCS Game,
including the National Championship Game."
BULLSHIT! Answer my question, sir. If they win two more games, Boise
will have FOUR undefeated regular seasons in the last six years.
WHERE'S THEIR OPPORTUNITY?
"The BCS has increased the access for all teams into major bowl
games."
Make up your mind as to whether you want the BCS to be about 1 v. 2
(which is an argument many apologists give) or about all five bowls.
This year, two non-AQ teams should get in.
"Teams from conferences without annual automatic qualification have
played in the BCS in four of the last five years."
Account that to that the major conferences have really begun to suck
rocks across the board in many of those years.
"Compare that to the previous 54 years, when only six teams that are
currently members of those conferences got a similar chance: BYU in
the 1974 Fiesta Bowl, Wyoming in the 1976 Fiesta Bowl, Rice in the
1961 Sugar Bowl, Wyoming in the 1968 Sugar Bowl, Air Force in the 1971
Sugar Bowl and Rice in the 1947 Orange Bowl."
Fine, but you still DISQUALIFY from the true BCS intention (the 1 v.
2) valid teams from these non-AQ conferences. See above: No non-AQ
team has ever played for a national championship in the BCS Era.
Contrast that to BYU a number of years back.
Mike
SNORKY
Maybe he's turning a new leaf.
xyzzy
That's phunny, I checked out the site after seeing Deems' poast and
before seeing yours and my first thought was "looks a lot like a
political astroturf site, shouldn't they be busy arguing for or
against healthcare refore?"
CheeseHusker dos
There's an Orrin Hatch comment here somewhere.....
CheeseHusker dos
Ari Fleisher is already hard at work.
sw...@yahoo.com
<deem...@aol.com> wrote:
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> http://www.playoffproblem.com/
heh, "bracket creep".
Straight out of a Heritage Foundation report.
Starcade
> On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:16:57 -0800 (PST), "deemsb...@aol.com"
>
> <deemsb...@aol.com> wrote:
>
> > http://www.playoffproblem.com/
>
> heh, "bracket creep".
>
> Straight out of a Heritage Foundation report.
I think that joker would want to do away with March Madness, if he
could get away with it.
Mike
Michael Press
<51560c15-654e-4aac...@u7g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>,
"deem...@aol.com" <deem...@aol.com> wrote:
> http://www.playoffproblem.com/
That is the way I see it. A play off system will hurt
the regular season badly, and will not reduce
controversy. Look at how much trouble the BCS caused.
And what has the BCS done for us? Nothing. Any playoff
system installed will produce more perceived
inequities, crown a nugatory national champion with no
more popular acclaim than the old system, and destroy
college football seasons as we know them. Look at the
way the BCS induces teams to schedule weaker schedules
every year.
--
Michael Press