It's Official- LSU Headed to the Sugar Bowl!--OK, so I'm a degenerate LSU fan- nothing wrong with that. I really love this BCS controversy. I know the BCS isn't perfect, but it's much better than the previous system. Not to mention the fact that it spit out the exact right answer this year. USC is so clearly the least deserving of the 3 one-loss teams. They have the worst SOS AND the worst loss.
The BCS was designed to account for the stupidity in the human polls as well as to actually match up top teams in bowl games. This year, it did both. The media act as if USC is entitled to play for the title merely because they are #1 in the human polls. Well, the system corrected for such idiocy. By what possible standard should USC be ranked ahead of LSU or Oklahoma? Poll voters still operate under an archaic policy whereby they are reluctant to ever leapfrog any team over another. Not to mention their eternal hard-on for any team that was historically good.
When you look at all the facts in a calm, objective manner, it should be obvious that USC got exactly what it deserved. They played NOBODY. They lost to a crappy team. Period.
posted by Nick 11:38 AM
Mississippi State has hired a "diverse" (read: black) head football coach. All the sportswriters are atwitter about what a great move this is- many times expressly listing his skin color as the reason. Rush Limbaugh got in huge PC trouble just for pointing out that the media pulled a little more for Donovan McNabb because he was black. Anyone who denies that this phenomenon exists is being horribly intellectually dishonest.
Tom Lemming of ESPN goes so far as to say that the recruits will identify with Croom just because they are black! Hmm. Sounds to me like we've got some pretty racist football players out there. They will actually go to Mississippi State just because the coach is black?
Look, I'll stop being cute about it. I don't care at all about who State hires. I just want everyone to be honest about racial issues. These are the facts: Mississippi State felt intense pressure to hire a black coach, so they did. End of story. I think it's extraordinarily unlikely that he was their actual first choice. I also think it's extraordinarily irrelevant how many black coaches there are in football.
Why oh why won't people see the obvious racism inherent in hiring people just because they have the proper skin pigmentation? They carp for a color-blind society, but that is clearly the exact opposite of what they want.
posted by Nick 3:51 PM
