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Originally Posted by Pierce
While I agree that BCS generally sucks donkey balls, I do not think it is wrong for KU fans to at least BE HAPPY that their team is in a major bowl, regardless of whether or not the team was deserving. They have to live with the Orange Bowl Committee's selection, too.
The one thing KU fans should NOT be doing is trying to justify their BCS bid. There is just no way to do that. Nevertheless, it is what it is and I don't think it is realistic to expect KU fans to not be happy with the result despite how wrong it was.
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Man, I'm getting sick of this stuff. People don't need to justify things if other people don't keep telling them "you're a joke, you don't deserve it, etc.". I'll tell you what, I'll start admonishing the Jayhawk fans who defend them when the other fans stop denegrating them, how about that.
Look at this thread header for crying out loud. Its like saying, "Its OK for you to be happy, but for crying out loud, when the rest of us trash your program you either better agree or just keep quiet".
You Tiger fans want to be mad about something, be mad at the Rose Bowl. Before there was a "National Championship Game", the idea was that the bowls would rotate who got the 1 v. 2 game, on down pairing the top ranked teams against each other. The problem was the Rose Bowl didn't want to do that. They had their precious "tradition" and wanted to be assured that they could keep their pathetic PAC 10/Big 10 mtchup when they didn't have the 1 v. 2 game. So the bowls kept their tie-ins except when it was their turn to host the top game. So that's why you don't have the bowls matching 1/2, 3/4, 5/6, 7/8, 9/10.
You want someone else to blame, blame the BCS. Their the ones who decided no more than two teams from any one conference. If that rule wasn't in place, more than likely, you would be in a BCS bowl as well.
And, I don't know how many of you are aware of this, but schools like Kansas, Missouri, and Hawaii are not the movers and shakers of the collegiate football arena. They weren't the influential schools dictating how this BCS was going to play out. So, don't blame Kansas because SOS is not considered, don't blame Kansas for what the Bowls want to look at when they decide who they want their at-large teams to be. And please stop with the idea that because we lost to MU by 8 points on a neutral field when they were ranked 4, soon to be 1, that all of a sudden were this pathetic team. We're freakin' 11-1. We didn't lose to a Standford at home, we won the games we were supposed to win.
So as far as I'm concerned, KU wasn't competing against MU for a Bowl spot in Arrowhead. That was for the North title and the right to go to the Championship. An at-large bid is not about who is perceived to be most deserving, its whoever is eligible and they want. They wanted KU and they don't have to justify it any more than that. All KU had to do was be elgibile to be selected, and they were that. So, if you don't want us defending it anymore, then go talk about your team and the foe they are playing in whatever non-Orange Bowl event you happen to be playing in. I don't care if the rest of America thinks its the worst game. You want to know what they thought the worst BCS game was going to be last year? OU-Boise St. Yeah, that turned out to be a real crappy game.
Rock Chalk! I'll be watching, and I don't really care if any of you do or not.
-HH