Boise State President Bob Kustra is taking a swing at the BCS for being allowed to operate under a shroud of secrecy. He sent an e-mail to other university presidents and conference commissioners Tuesday, one day after analysts discovered an error in the final BCS rankings. The glitch caused BCS officials to revise the computer rankings, moving Boise State up one spot to No. 10 and dropping LSU to No. 11. He says the schools are asked by the NCAA to be transparent on their campuses and share their governance and communications with their faculties and othe constituencies. Yet the NCAA stands silently on the sidelines, allowing the BCS to work its magic with no idea of how accurate its rankings are on a week to week basis. Do you think that could have changed any bowl invitations? Boise did wind up with a "chump" bowl game.
Chump game for the chumps. Go to a tougher conference if you want to be considered for a good bowl game.
He has a point, and it doesn't matter. The BCS, computer rankings in particular, is beyond laughable. Nobody really knows what goes into the computer rankings except the creators themselves, and they claim they're being hamstrung by the BCS in wanting to go to improved ranking algorithms. And these are people with computational backgrounds, mostly in the hard sciences. There's one poll used in the BCS made by some hick in the midwest with a HS education who's made a hobby of ranking teams forever, and somehow he had enough pull to become part of the BCS. It's a joke. But Boise, here's the reality. You play 1, maybe 2, real teams a year. You're not even trying to do what TCU is doing and join a BCS conference to improve your street cred. You lose one of those games with the murderous schedule everyone else has by comparison, and you deserve to go to a "chump" bowl. End of discussion.
I'm guessing Boise is representing the MWC as the #1 team. So unless Boise thinks being BCS #10 would have landed them a BCS at large berth nothing would be different. Since they were always eligible for an at large berth anyway.
I'm actually upset they got stuck in a crappy bowl. Now they don't have to play anybody. The only good thing is that Utah was destroyed by TCU.
Two things; FIRST - agreed, if you put all your chips in one pot and don't win the hand - your busted. SECOND - I absolutely love your avatar - it's ART!!!
Much appreciated, but I can't take credit for it. A friend sent the original to me but the text was too small to read, so I blew it up as big as I could.
