Same old BS about BCS

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The annual debate has arisen

again in college football. Yes, there are schools who are not happy

with the BCS (Bowl Championship Series). Well what do you

know.

You can pick a

season and someone is upset, and like clockwork the call for a

playoff will be made and, like the annual tradition it has become,

it will fall on deaf ears.

Ever notice

that the teams that win never complain when they are in the

driver’s seat? You have not heard a word from the most powerful

conference, the SEC, mainly because they have the No. 1 and 2

ranked teams in the country facing each other for the

championship.

If the

presidents of these universities really want change, it would have

happened by now. Instead you have some geniuses thinking this

annual debate is good for college sports. Yeah, just like the

cheating and now other shenanigans that we are learning about daily

that happens on college campuses are good discussion

items.

I am not sure

if there is an element of sports that has become more frustrating

and eventually disgusting as what we have with college sports. As

the pundits in Washington say, now that our political system is

broken, I only wish they had to time to look at the mess we call

college athletics. It makes Washington look like a disagreement at

a Cub Scout meeting, and yet with money that is at stake you would

have thought someone would have called time out by now to fix the

problem. Guess they are too busy counting the money they have

already made.

As for the BCS,

it is so flawed, the leaders of this debacle find themselves either

defending it, tweaking the system of voting, or trying to redefine

what their role is as the ink has yet to dry on the adjustments

they attempt to make. It is a mess and there are no plans to fix

it, which means coaches whose teams are not where they think they

should be will continue to gripe. Only the names of the teams will

change but the situation will remain the same, at least for the

foreseeable future.

While I knew

this would be a tough season for the Rams, I never thought the

snowball that was going down hill has now turned into a

full-fledged avalanche. The only thing to do here is what happens

when that dominos game has gone south or that hand of bid whist has

no hope – you can only say one thing …UNCLE! I

surrender.

Everything that

could go wrong has gone wrong for the team. Starting at the top,

with an owner who has been of the absentee ilk, to a general

manager who has failed in the draft and free agent signings that

have been borderline embarrassing to a coach who has few real

weapons and has decided to be as conservative as Newt

Gingrich. Throw in a collection of aging, under-skilled players and

you have the St. Louis Rams.

Sad but

true.

Before you

start to feel sorry for Stephen Jackson and how it has been

somewhat of a wasted career with respect to him being on a winning

team, I will remind you that he is being paid handsomely to endure.

To be honest, seldom do we see a guy be a pro on and off the field

as he has displayed. Now you can feel sorry for him.

While you may

think as a writer I would enjoy pointing this out, you are

mistaken. We have all run out of things to say about this

situation.

I do have one

suggestion though. As you know, the Rams cannot score and they have

the most unimaginative offense in the last 50 years at least. They

are seldom in games late and, as I look at the schedule, I noticed

that they play this Monday night.

Again, I say,

“Uncle!” as I plead with the NFL and ESPN to go to alternate

programming and spare us. Tongue in cheek, of course, but this has

gotten worse by the week and it cannot be over soon enough. This

will be a season we will not soon forget, although we need to

remember it so it will not happen again.

Welcome back,

Tiger

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Yes, that was Tiger Woods who won a golf tournament Sunday and

wasn’t it a sight that has been missing from the tour?

Woods played

well through out the weekend and went birdie, birdie to win the

Chevron over Zach Johnson, who claimed he did not have his “A”

game. That’s funny how quickly these guys forget, as there was a

time when they would be in the final pairing with Tiger on Sunday

and they could have brought the whole alphabet with them to try and

beat him and they had no shot.

Perhaps this

will be the start of something as the ratings show that Tiger still

has that “it” factor working for him. Throw in the fact that the

Rams were on at the same time and you can only see so many car

wrecks before you say, “UNCLE!”

Same old BS about BCS

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