From approximately 9:02 am ET - 9:07am ET ESPN radio's Mike & Mike debated about the most influential media in sports. They concluded the College Gameday crew is #1. Their rationale? The writers who get votes in the AP poll and the coaches who vote in the coaches poll cannot watch games as they are either at a site all day writing or coaching their respective game. Yet, these voters turn to the Gameday crew to see highlights and get their opinion which in turn shapes their vote which in turn impacts the BCS. I nearly drove off the road. Thank you very much for the thesis statement on why the CBSSports.com Top 25 Blog Poll matters (ed: LTP gets a vote in said poll).
You and I have likely more game knowledge than either of the AP and Coaches Poll voters simply by the fact we can watch 8-10 full games on a Saturday. Thus, I contend the Blog Poll will soon be incorporated into the BCS system. When I go into the components of the BCS Rankings next week, you'll see how ludicrous it is. What is it about the Massey or Sagarin computer rankings that gives them credence? A cryptic formula? Any poll that has Northwestern currently ranked #2 behind Alabama should be rid from BCS computation consideration based on common sense. And this coming from LTP!
In full disclosure, LTP had a significant role in convincing CBSSports.com to put the Blog Poll on their platform. And while the week one launch kinks are currently getting ironed out, help me help you by giving us all a rationale voice that will hopefully someday soon actually have an impact on BCS rankings.
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
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YOU can watch 8-10 games on Saturday?!? Dude... you need more kids. Seriously though, your point is very well taken. The polls are a joke. Regardless, I'm the only one I know that still does NOT support a playoff. It pushes the sport even more towards the pros... a phenomenon that I despise, particularly since there is a direct correlation between that phenomenon and the abandonment of the ideal of a STUDENT-athlete.
@look good in purple -- I, TOO, do not support a playoff. I love the bowl system, the importance it places on week-to-week excellence, the pagentry of bowl season, and the inherent fact that WHATEVER playoff system you have will be unfair.
(Don't believe me? If you think the whining is bad from one or two teams that feel they should have been in the current BCS Title game is bad, imagine the exponential whining of possible #5 teams if you did a 4 team playoff, or #9 teams if you did an 8-team playoff, etc.)
Honestly, who even needs an "official" national championship? Do you think Nebraska or Michigan fans feel their 1997 championships are "cheapened" by sharing it with each other? HELL NO! They're both happy to be national champions! And I see nothing wrong with TWICE as many fans being happy to be national champions, even if we (temporarily, immediately after the game) have arguments over who is the "true" champion.
(I guess you could say I'd be happy even if we went back to the old, pre-BCS system, where the Big Ten champ and Pac-10 champ played each other in the Rose Bowl every year, regardless).
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