FBC Week 11 thread: Jack Mildren didn't need no stinkin' spread offense

AQB, the NCAA is an organization composed of schools. The schools in the BCS conferences are its most important members. They have clout, because they could blow the organization up if they chose. It would be the work of an afternoon to form a BCS system for college basketball and start their own tournament, which would deprive the NCAA of most of its revenue.
I don't think it's unreasonable to believe that the NCAA or any organization would fudge its rules or alter its procedures to benefit the powers-that-be. That's the nature of organizations. There's no evidence they've done so, yet, so I give them the benefit of the doubt. If I was an attorney in the employ of Texas Christian University, I would be more suspicious, and preparing to act on my suspicions.
We joke on this board all the time when a scandal goes down at a big school that this means some smaller school will get whacked by the NCAA. Are we all paranoid? Are we all alumni of non AQ conference schools?

 

The Oregon-Cal announcers seemed stunned that the Ducks were milking the play clock on that last drive. Right down to kneeling down at the end -- they appeared to think that it was the first quarter or something. Turrible.

 

Cal-Oregon was actually a pay-per-view 3-D option on my cable system (Verizon FioS) and I assume on many others. So the technical crew for this broadcast had to be the best the network had to offer. So they saved money on the announcers, or Versus just sucks, or both. I vote both.

 

I'm a professed ND hater. Even having said that, how pathetic was it that the ND student section rushed the field yesterday? I'd like to think that it involved either a finely tuned sense of irony on their part....or maybe just a sense of humor...but I don't think so. It actually makes me a bit sad, that this is what Notre Dame seems to have become.

 

Apparently, someone wrote a sarcastic letter-to-the-editor in the student newspaper about how the students should rush the field after the Utah loss because it would mark the most home losses ever by a single senior class. Obviously, that stirred some shit around campus and with the lunatic fringe of the fan base.

I think the rushing of the field after the win was partly in response to that.

 

I DVR'd this game. K-State's third quarter offensive possessions should've been played with the Benny Hill soundtrack in the background... especially the fumblerooski, or whatever the hell that play was.

As for punches... gimme specifics. What quarter, what play, etc. We'll check the tape to see if this point has any validity... but I doubt it backs you up.

 

Um....

 

Wow. No SportsJournalists.com love for FSU kid making a 55-yarder to beat Clemson, a week after he missed a 40-yarder wide right to lose to North Carolina?

 

So basically, you don't want the NCAA to follow it's due process procedure. You want a kangaroo court that dispenses justice now regardless of whether or not they're done gathering evidence and despite the fact they don't have subpoena power and can't force anyone to speak with their investigators.

Of course if they do totally disregard their procedures to make you feel better they then have to dispense the justice YOU want or it's all a sham anyway.

Bullshit.

 

That's right because BCS runs college football not the NCAA. I sure hope the NCAA gets a big kickback from the BCS.

 

AQB, again, I never said any of that. If the NCAA follows its procedures, whatever the hell they may be, fine. But if those procedures come up with declaring Newton ineligible after the fact of the season (and the fact is, if he's eligible for the draft, he'd be an idiot not to done with college ball one second the final gun of whatever bowl game he's in), that means some team or teams got screwed. They're not gonna be happy about, and the investigators might wind up getting investigated themselves, if not in court, then in Congress, where unhappiness with the BCS is a matter of record, and where they always have time on their hands to get on TV.
Arguing that the BCS and the NCAA have nothing to do with each other is laughable. On paper maybe. Again, the same school presidents who agree to the BCS cast the votes in the NCAA. The organizations may have initials, but their membership is the same.

 

If Boise or TCU gets into the title game, they are going to get absolutely run. It's going to be like Florida-Cincinnati last year or Georgia-Hawaii a few years ago.