Another Reason Why College Football Sucks
Oh goodie. We get to see back to back blowouts in the BCS Championship game. Ohio State will get another shot at getting destroyed by a SEC team. OSU does not deserve to be ranked number 1 in the nation. I don’t care that the Buckeyes are one of only two teams from major conferences with one loss. Ohio State didn’t beat anyone in the final top 20 BCS standings. If the BCS is going to punish Hawaii (who is undefeated) for playing nobody then the Buckeyes should have the same fate.
Hey, LSU where do you think you’re going? Get your ass back here! You don’t deserve to be in the big game either. You guys lost your last game of the regular season to an unranked team! And you come close to losing several others.
Who do I think should be in the BCS title game? I don’t know and I don’t give a you know what. I will never get into College Football until there is a playoff system. Yahoo sports writer Dan Wetzel has a system that works.
There is some debate about this issue. Some good, some not so much.
“There can’t be a playoff system in College Football. The kids would miss too much school.”
People who say this lack mental power. I chuckle to myself while pointing to the fact that division 1 is the only division in College Football without a playoff system. I guess the other divisions don’t care about their own so called student athletes.
“A playoff system would make the regular season less important.”
This argument does have some validity. But let us ponder this. What if there was a 16 team playoff system and a team like USC lost it’s first 2 games? Their season would be “over” because there isn’t a playoff. The excitement of their season would be gone. Most fans that wanted a National Title would stop viewing. But if the Trojans were fighting for a playoff spot, then the importance of the rest of season would be there.
And now for the real debate.
Let’s not kid ourselves people. There is only one real reason why we will never see a playoff system that makes sense. The NCAA runs March Madness and every dollar (sponsors, tv, and gate receipts) goes to the NCAA. The NCAA doesn’t run the bowl games. They are individual entities that have their own sponsors. Why would schools (that have a chance of winning the BCS Title) want to give up money that the bowls pay directly to them? Colleges would much rather get a big piece of the pie then getting the small amount they receive from the NCAA for going to March Madness.
It all comes down to money. Indeed the pursuit of it is the root of all evil. If a playoff system could generate more money, then it would have been implemented a long time ago.
I never understood interventions. What’s the point of being told you drink too much from a room full of reasons why you drink in the first place?
Posted: December 3, 2007 at 4:54 am | by Ryan
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Jason Whitlock is at it again
Jason Whitlock
It didn’t take long for someone to use Sean Taylor’s death as a soap box to preach their nonsense. Columnist (and I use that term loosely) Jason Whitlock is that person.
Whitlock is someone who loves to point fingers at problems but never seems to have a real solution to the enigma. He enjoys bashing his own race and culture just for the sake of being controversial. But when was the last time he called someone of a different race a thug for doing something stupid? Whitlock didn’t even use the “T” word when he was writing about Andy Reid’s troubled kids.
Jason Whitlock calls African Americans who lack common sense members of the Black KKK. In his pathetic excuse for an article Whitlock gives his thoughts on the murder of Sean Taylor.
The Black KKK claimed another victim, a high-profile professional football player with a checkered past this time.
No, we don’t know for certain the circumstances surrounding Taylor’s death. I could very well be proven wrong for engaging in this sort of aggressive speculation. But it’s no different than if you saw a fat man fall to the ground clutching his chest. You’d assume a heart attack, and you’d know, no matter the cause, the man needed to lose weight.
If Jason Whitlock wants to assume then I will do the same. I will assume that Whitlock doesn’t know what the Ku Klux Klan is. I will even assume that he lacks common sense. He needs to read a history book. Sean Taylor isn’t in a better place because he is Black. He is not with us anyone because his killer is a complete animal. Its as simple as that. Race has nothing to do with it. There isn’t any race that will act normal if they are raised in an environment like Taylor’s killer. Most of the time people act like Satan spawns because of where they were raised. Its economic not racial Mr. Whitlock.
Yes, some people might think if a fat man falls down clutching his chest that he is having a heart attack. Are these the same people that assumed Sean Bell should be sent six feet deep on his wedding day? We can not live in a world where we always assume the worst. That is not an opinion. It is fact!
Whitlock refuses to write about the fact that Sean Taylor changed his ways after the birth of his daughter Jackie. I guess assume Mr. Whitlock believes leaving that out will make his thoughts less controversial.
In his “article”, Whitlock’s ignorance continues…
I blame hip hop for playing a role in the genocide of American black men. When your leading causes of death and dysfunction are murder, ignorance and incarceration, there’s no reason to give a free pass to a culture that celebrates murder, ignorance and incarceration.
No, Jason Whitlock. This has nothing to do with music. If hip hop never existed, Sean Taylor would still be dead. These problems were around long before the genesis of hip hop. The truth of the matter is simple to comprehend. Most people that murder, steal, and act like straight fools come from broken homes or down right pathetic environments. When I was growing up I hardly listened to music. I was a bad kid who got in trouble all the time. If I didn’t have my mother and father to set me straight I would most likely be in jail right now. I find it interesting that Jason Whitlock didn’t mention the hip hop culture when Andy Reid’s sons were arrested. I have no choice but to assume (there’s that word again) Whitlock believes hip hop culture is only for Black people. Maybe we can blame the problems the Reid family is facing on movies like Scarface and the Godfather.
At the 50th Anniversary commemoration of the Brown vs Topeka Board of Education Supreme Court Decision, Bill Cosby said it best…
In the neighborhood that most of us grew up in, parenting is not going on. In the old days, you couldn’t hooky school because every drawn shade was an eye. And before your mother got off the bus and to the house, she knew exactly where you had gone, who had gone into the house, and where you got on whatever you had one and where you got it from. Parents don’t know that today.
I’m talking about these people who cry when their son is standing there in an orange suit. Where were you when he was two? Where were you when he was twelve? Where were you when he was eighteen, and how come you don’t know he had a pistol? And where is his father, and why don’t you know where he is? And why doesn’t the father show up to talk to this boy?
Do you see music being called the scapegoat? I think I will agree with the opinion of Bill Cosby over a columnist that just wants to make a name for himself.
I don’t hate Jason Whitlock. I actually feel sorry for him. Its a shame that common sense is not common. And Whitlock is living proof of that.
I never understood interventions. What’s the point of being told you drink too much from a room full of reasons why you drink in the first place?
Posted: November 29, 2007 at 1:10 am | by Ryan
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Sean Taylor dead at 24
Sean Taylor has died. I’m shocked. I’m disgusted. I just can’t understand why crap like this has to happen. Taylor was only 24 years old.
Early Monday Sean was sleeping at his Florida home with his girlfriend. His one year old daughter was also in the room. Taylor tried to protect his family with a machete from an intruder. Shots were fired and Taylor was hit in the upper leg. It looked like Sean was going to pull through, but it wasn’t meant to be. Its a shame Taylor didn’t own a gun. But because of his probation he wasn’t allowed to own one.
Now people have the nerve to say that Sean Taylor got what he deserved. That he was a thug that couldn’t stay out of trouble. The man’s body isn’t even cold yet and people are casting judgment. These same idiots have no idea that after Taylor’s daughter was born he kept his nose clean. Coaches and fellow teammates were impressed with his turnaround.
I’m not going to speculate on the reasons why a daughter no longer has her father. I’m just pissed that people are opening their mouth before the facts come out.
R.I.P. Sean Taylor…
[Redskins’ Taylor dies from gunshot wound]
I never understood interventions. What’s the point of being told you drink too much from a room full of reasons why you drink in the first place?
Posted: November 27, 2007 at 4:01 am | by Ryan
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