tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6237514746199867099.post7660977679636160798..comments2023-06-10T16:19:02.304-04:00Comments on Rough Fractals: Overrated! The Disaster that is the BSC systemStevenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16353954192152571397noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6237514746199867099.post-66032157388981900352009-01-10T16:24:00.000-05:002009-01-10T16:24:00.000-05:00Hollywood,I take exception to your argument that t...Hollywood,<BR/><BR/>I take exception to your argument that the BCS system has any "problems." I think that it pretty clearly works exactly as intended.<BR/><BR/>The BCS is designed to circumvent the NCAA and make the conferences involved lots of money (rather than the NCAA). The BCS is a money making machine, and is working quite well, thank you very much. College Football fans can't get enough of the bowls. They watch them despite their mediocrity. You can't say the same thing about tennis.<BR/> <BR/>Personally, I like the BCS and think it has been a rousing success, because it keeps College Football fresh, interesting, and different. Unlike, for example, college basketball. You don't argue who the best basketball team is every year. March Madness lets us know. I like the fact that in college football I can argue that the University of Washington was better than Miami in 1992. I like the fact that nothing is decided. Why do some people always want everything wrapped up in a nice consumer-friendly package? I think it is more fun to formulate an opinion on who the best team is without having been told. Here, the BCS, AP, and USA Today polls all have declared Florida the winner. <BR/><BR/>As you state above, many people feel that Utah got jobbed. This means that Utah can forever argue that it got screwed. Good for them. But I'm not buying it. Utah beat four ranked teams, including Alabama, but the rest of its victories were against mediocre teams. It did not have to go through a bruising season and cannot seriously be considered as National Champions. It would be like saying that Juno deserved to be best picture last year because it was so much better than everyone expected.<BR/> <BR/>The Movie award season is actually a great metaphor for college football. We have the Oscars, the Golden Globes, the SAG's, and whatnot. Just like we have the AP, ESPN/Coaches, and Harris interactive polls. They all can come up with different winners, and all are fairly arbitrary. If the curious case of Benjamin Button wins the Oscar for best picture, it won't end debate on what the best picture actually was (nor should it). Likewise, Florida won the BCS championship, but didn't in any way end the argument about who the best team is (my pick would by USC). But I'm not worried that the polls didn't agree with me. They only mean something if we choose to give them value.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6237514746199867099.post-54185000368649849862009-01-09T11:46:00.000-05:002009-01-09T11:46:00.000-05:00FractalisciousFractalisciousAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6237514746199867099.post-58713421912432929742009-01-09T11:33:00.000-05:002009-01-09T11:33:00.000-05:00Not only that, moving the big games off new years ...Not only that, moving the big games off new years day is a big mistake. it was a great tradition, to watch the national championship get decided by a number of different games, all on the same day.ezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06082454186126683014noreply@blogger.com