Inside the BCS, unintentional comedy for Nov. 30

by Jeff Nusser on Nov 30, 2009 5:29 PM PST in College Football

On its blog at PlayoffProblem.com, the BCS group posts an article by Dennis Dodd at CBSSports.com (in its entirety and without link, which is a pretty severe copyright infringement, but that's a conversation for another time).

The strongest argument for the BCS in Dodd's piece?

The Bowl Championship Series, by dumb luck more than master plan, has worked this season. For the second time in the BCS era, it’s possible there could be five undefeated teams at the end of the season (Alabama/Florida, Texas, TCU, Boise State and Cincinnati). For the first time, all of them would be playing in BCS bowls.

Success by dumb luck. Ignore process. Point to results. Like I said over the weekend, you seriously can't make this stuff up.

Once again, you have the BCS holding up the argument, "Hey, this system might suck, but at least it doesn't suck as bad as it did before," and, "The have-nots should be happy we've given them a seat at the table at all." I wish I owned my own P.R. firm so I could get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to fail miserably at my job.

Tweet Comment 1 comment | 0 recs |

Do you like this story?

Comments

Left a critical comment at the blog re: copyright

It’s still “awaiting moderation.” So, here it is for you:

It’s nice that you want to post pieces supporting the BCS — although I’d argue that posting a piece who’s best argument for the BCS is that it succeeded more by "dumb luck than master plan" probably isn’t the best way to go — but I just have one question:

Did you receive permission from CBSSports.com to redistribute this in its entirety? If not, you’ve got some serious copyright infringement here — one that won’t be rectified by simply linking back (as you sort of did in your first post).

Not sure who told you that "blog" is synonymous with "illegally republishing articles to support your cause," but let me be the first to tell you that blogs are not for this purpose. This whole new media thing is hard, I know!

But then again, your expertise lies in rigging a system for the college football elite, not in brushing up on copyright law, so I guess we can’t expect you to know that. But now you do. I’ll expect you to fix it.

CougCenter

by Jeff Nusser on Dec 1, 2009 12:13 PM PST reply actions