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Screw the Oregonian, what the do people from Oregon know about football? Yes, the Big XII is down this year in football, but I'll put UT up against any team in the country this season, they are that good and you're blind if you don't see it.
excerpted from a story in The Oregonian...
Everyone complains about the Bowl Championship Series, but nobody ever does anything about it. They claim to do something about it, but they don't really.
They make little tweaks to computers, they add the Harris Poll, which is as good an indicator of the top 25 as any random polling of people named Harris could be.
But if they really wanted to fix the BCS, they'd eliminate it.
Since they aren't going to do that, they need to punt the Big 12.
Every BCS controversy for the past four years could have been solved by eliminating the comically overrated, odorous Big 12.
Last season, USC, Oklahoma and Auburn finished undefeated, the Tigers being left out of the national championship game. Oklahoma obviously stank. Eliminate the Sooners, and no problem.
In 2003, the Sooners, who reeked, played LSU for the BCS le. LSU and the Trojans ended up splitting les. Eliminate Oklahoma, and the Tigers and the Trojans face each other. No problem.
In 2002, there wasn't really a problem . . . unless you were Washington State, in which case you got rolled by the Sooners. Still, get rid of them, and WSU has no problem.
Now, 2001. The biggie, especially around here. Nebraska, which was giving off a stench like the inside of our refrigerator on the backend of a two-week road trip, went to the Rose Bowl to play Miami for the le. Eliminate the Cornhuskers, and no problem.
Oregon gets spanked by the Hurricanes instead.
See? The problem isn't the BCS. It's the Big 12. We're not saying Texas isn't good, but at some point you have to pay a price for the company you keep, and someone needs to say it.
A few weeks ago, we caught Mark May on ESPN, and while he wasn't shouting he was saying the strength of Texas' schedule was indisputable. The Longhorns, May pointed out, had won at Ohio State and beaten Oklahoma.
Oklahoma isn't any good. Chalk it up to no quarterback. Chalk it up to last year's pasting by USC and post-traumatic stress disorder. Whatever. Just don't say the Sooners are good.
Down with the Big 12. Remove that wretched, smelly conference and fix the BCS. Don't believe it's bad? Curl up on the couch Friday and catch Texas at Texas A&M (9 a.m., ABC), followed by Nebraska at Colorado (12:30 p.m., ABC).
Screw the Oregonian, what the do people from Oregon know about football? Yes, the Big XII is down this year in football, but I'll put UT up against any team in the country this season, they are that good and you're blind if you don't see it.
We're Oregon! We're just as cool and hip as California! See, see, we can bash the state of Texas too!
Sideways should have been in our state! Our state! We made Pinot Noir first! Waaaaaah!
Oregon is the oklahoma to california's texas, so naturally they'd report like their s stank at a Matt Leinart level of stinkiness.
Jealousy is a biotch.
I do remember Texas Tech destroying Top 5 Cal last bowl season.
An anomaly.
yet the truth.
You're a quack.
Great uniforms, by the way. Only a bona fide Nike genius can pull together such disparate concepts as shower mold, kindergartener construction paper projects, and metal stair treads into one package.
I support Tech and put absolutely no stock in that outcome. Cal went from believing that it should be playing in the Rose Bowl to being delivered up to a far from first tier bowl game. Cal went into that game without either of its starting wideouts as well. In the end, they were beaten badly, but not because Texas Tech had a better football team. At some point, even the quality of a team cannot overcome its disappointment at its fate.
The same thing happened to the K-State team that lost the Big XII le to the Aggies a few years back. They were disappointed at falling not just out of a BCS game, but all the way to the Alamo Bowl. And they were smacked by Purdue in that game. It doesn't mean Purdue was better, though.
Could Cal and K-State have handled those situations better? Sure. But does their failure to compete after such a resounding disappointment mean that their conference is bad? Of course not.
Those uni's are tight!You're a quack.
Great uniforms, by the way. Only a bona fide Nike genius can pull together such disparate concepts as shower mold, kindergartener construction paper projects, and metal stair treads into one package.
You are such an old fogey.
The proper term is "crunk," bizatch.
You make good points, FWD but there also has to be a point where teams stop moping and focus on the game at hand. Cal should have worked Tech but they were too busy being bent about the Rose Bowl. They should have unleashed that anger at Tech.
those uni's are ed up!
But that's my point, I think. If Cal should have worked Tech (and they should have), Tech's win doesn't really say much about the quality of the Big XII vs. the quality of the Pac-10. It seems to me, mikey, that last year's Holiday Bowl shows that a Big XII team can take advantage of a moping Pac-10 team; not that the Big XII's 3rd team was better than the Pac-10's 2nd team.
We'll see how it plays out, but I would generally agree with the proposition that the Pac-10 has more good teams right now than the Big XII, and that the Big XII has been pretty heavily overrated for several years now.
At least it's not this:
When Tech's offense starts to roll they are hard to stop. I believe Tech beats Cal most times they play, but I'm one of the few that gives Tech respect.
I give Tech respect, particularly because Tech is my big college team. But with that said, in a straight up matchup last year, I wouldn't have ever picked Tech to beat Cal. Tech was fortunate to get a chance at Cal at the right time and may end up building the program by virtue of that one win. But I still don't think that one win was particularly valid.
I certainly wouldn't hold it up as proof that the Big XII is better than the Pac-10 anymore than I'd hold up SC's demolition of OU last year for any similar purpose.
Oregon State Animal + Oregon State Fish = stank!
Oregon is lame. Most of the Big 12 teams would dominate Oregon.
Oklahoma obviously stank; they only beat Oregon 31-7.Last season, USC, Oklahoma and Auburn finished undefeated, the Tigers being left out of the national championship game. Oklahoma obviously stank. Eliminate the Sooners, and no problem.
tlongs just happy because the pac10 had 3 good teams this year after years of being the tiest to ever assemble
have yall ever heard of the BIG EAST?
I disagree about the overrated FWDBut that's my point, I think. If Cal should have worked Tech (and they should have), Tech's win doesn't really say much about the quality of the Big XII vs. the quality of the Pac-10. It seems to me, mikey, that last year's Holiday Bowl shows that a Big XII team can take advantage of a moping Pac-10 team; not that the Big XII's 3rd team was better than the Pac-10's 2nd team.
We'll see how it plays out, but I would generally agree with the proposition that the Pac-10 has more good teams right now than the Big XII, and that the Big XII has been pretty heavily overrated for several years now.
Oregon State Animal + Oregon State Fish = stank!
Nice burn.. except for that's not what they wear.You're a quack.
Great uniforms, by the way. Only a bona fide Nike genius can pull together such disparate concepts as shower mold, kindergartener construction paper projects, and metal stair treads into one package.
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