Another Take from the Mizzou Side of BCS Screw Job - Page 4

Frazod · 12-03-2007, 09:51 AM

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Mizzou left out of BCS? It's nonsense
BY BRYAN BURWELL
POST-DISPATCH SPORTS COLUMNIST
Sunday, Dec. 02 2007

COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Of course it doesn’t make sense. You know it, I know it, even
the doofuses who continue to perpetrate this idiotic Bowl Championship Series
system have to know just how fatally flawed and hopelessly messed up their
multi-million dollar scam is.

So Sunday night was just one more bit of annoying confirmation of how defective
the BCS is.

From the broad national perspective, to the narrower parochial one, I truly
hate it with all my heart. But since sports is very much like politics --
everything is local -- let’s deal with how Mizzou got robbed Sunday night by
the BCS and its convoluted computers.

Missouri finished its finest season in the history of the program with an 11-2
record, won the Big 12 North, knocked off both arch rivals in Kansas and
Illinois, and the Tigers finished with a No. 6 ranking in the final BCS
standings.

Logic says the Tigers had to get a BCS bowl bid, right?

So why are they sitting on the outside of the BCS with an invitation to the
still prestigious (but non BCS) Cotton Bowl, while five other schools that
ranked lower in the BCS standings -- including the 8th-ranked Jayhawks and
13th-ranked Illini -- received bids to the more preferred BCS bowls?

Seventh-ranked Southern California and Illinois are in the Rose Bowl. Kansas is
in the Orange Bowl, ninth-ranked West Virginia is in the Fiesta Bowl and
10th-ranked Hawaii is in the Sugar Bowl.

So how does any of this make sense? As the news began to filter through the
second floor hallways at the Reynolds Alumni Center on Sunday night, the grim
faces of many Mizzou athletes told the story of the night.

“It’s just a shame we got locked out,” said All-America tight end Martin
Rucker. “How does that happen? Mathematically, logically, it just doesn’t make
sense.”

By the time the Fox network BCS bowl selection show began at 7 p.m., Rucker and
his teammates had already left the building. They couldn’t bear to watch it.
They had been instructed to take the high road and go with the company line
that they’re “excited” to be Cotton Bowl bound.

But Rucker, the senior who has seen Missouri football grow from inconsequential
to important, couldn’t play the game. In the course of 48 turbulent hours, he’d
watched his team go from No. 1 in the country with a legitimate shot at a
national championship bid, to disappointed and disgusted outsiders with their
noses pressed to the glass watching the BCS dance cards being handed out.

Someone asked if this obvious slight was further proof of how badly college
football’s top division needs a playoff system to decide its national champions
and perhaps prevent a situation like this where Mizzou was unjustly left on the
outside looking in.

“I don’t know if you need a playoff system to see that it doesn’t make sense
that one team (Illinois) lost three games and lost to you, and you only lost
two games, and they’re going to a BCS game and you’re not,” said Rucker with a
resigned shrug of his shoulders. “I don’t think we need a playoff system to
understand that, do we?”

You could see the disappointment in their faces as the players got the
official word and most of them quietly left the alumni center without saying a
word. “I have a bunch of players who have a bunch of frowns,” said Pinkel.

But those frowning faces told another story of the night, as well. Is there any
surer sign that Pinkel’s emerging program is heading in the right direction
than the fact that Mizzou football is no longer satisfied with a Cotton Bowl
bid?

Three years ago -- heck, last year -- Missouri loyalists and Tiger players and
coaches would have done somersaults down Broadway if you told them that the
2007 season would conclude with an 11-2 regular season record, a Big 12 North
title, a week on top of the national polls, a legitimate Heisman Trophy
candidate, and a Cotton Bowl bid.

After six years of lesser bowls and underachieving seasons, a trip to a
traditional and prestigious Jan. 1 bowl game, with or without the additional
status of a BCS affiliation, would have been considered a watershed mark for
Pinkel and the Tigers.

So even in the aftermath of the crushing defeat to Oklahoma in the Big 12 title
game, even with the obvious insult by the BCS system, even as some folks will
spend a lot of energy and a ton of venom overanalyzing how the biggest game in
MU football history ended up with a less-than-storybook ending, let’s not lose
sight of the essential ongoing story line.

What happened over the weekend wasn’t the sad end of the story.

The rebirth of Mizzou football is a story that’s just beginning.

Sure-Oz · 12-03-2007, 01:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GonzoRox88

Well..we know for sure they won't be talking about Mizzou and the Cotton Bowl at all.

Publicity is publicity..good, bad, or ugly. Get your name out. That's more than Mizzou will be doing with their bowl game.

KS gets trashed by vt that won't do them any favors. I like Mizzou's chances at making another top 10 run next year, kansas, well goodluck, and mizzou's incoming class is pretty solid and only will get better.

|Zach| · 12-03-2007, 01:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GonzoRox88

Well..we know for sure they won't be talking about Mizzou and the Cotton Bowl at all.

Publicity is publicity..good, bad, or ugly. Get your name out. That's more than Mizzou will be doing with their bowl game.

The OB is already getting pretty good attention. Fron of the NCAA FB page on ESPN. The video has all kinds of good info.

"You might as well take the Orange Bowl with Kansas and put it on Comedy Central cause it is a joke."

eazyb81 · 12-03-2007, 01:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chiefqueen

Let's illustrate this graphically

BCS Bowl -$$$$$$$$$$$

Non-BCS Bowl - $$

Get It?

You do realize that all bowl money is split evenly between teams in the conference, right?

Kansas and OU do not generate any extra revenue from their BCS bowl appearances than any other team in the Big 12.

Pierce · 12-03-2007, 01:17 PM

What if KU somehow beats VT? Then maybe they aren't so fraudulent after all...

The tough part about the MU game is that it is on New Years morning. Talk about a bad hangover for a lot of the country...

eazyb81 · 12-03-2007, 01:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GonzoRox88

Well..we know for sure they won't be talking about Mizzou and the Cotton Bowl at all.

Publicity is publicity..good, bad, or ugly. Get your name out. That's more than Mizzou will be doing with their bowl game.

LOL, getting embarrassed on national television for the 2nd straight game is not good publicity for a football program.

Pablo · 12-03-2007, 01:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by eazyb81

LOL, getting embarrassed on national television for the 2nd straight game is not good publicity for a football program.

So, you don't think getting embarrassed in a marquee game for the second straight time by OU was in any way, shape or form good for the Tigers in terms of publicity?

Sure-Oz · 12-03-2007, 01:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by |Zach|

The OB is already getting pretty good attention. Fron of the NCAA FB page on ESPN. The video has all kinds of good info.

"You might as well take the Orange Bowl with Kansas and put it on Comedy Central cause it is a joke."

but but but they earned it!

Mr. Laz · 12-03-2007, 01:22 PM

the BCS hates mizzou as much as the rest of us ...... what other "take" is there?

Pablo · 12-03-2007, 01:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by |Zach|

The OB is already getting pretty good attention. Fron of the NCAA FB page on ESPN. The video has all kinds of good info.

"You might as well take the Orange Bowl with Kansas and put it on Comedy Central cause it is a joke."

What's the pitch line for the Cotton Bowl?

"Be sure to get up early on New Years Day after you've consumed gratuitous amounts of alcohol, and watch the former no. 1 team play the Heisman trophy winner ?"

As if you didn't care enough about bowl games that weren't the NC, here's the Cotton Bowl!

Woo-hoo..it's the best of the Non-BCS bowls.

KC_Connection · 12-03-2007, 01:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Laz

the BCS hates mizzou as much as the rest of us ...... what other "take" is there?

That's seemingly all there is to it.

KU rules, MU drools.

**Skip Towne** · 12-03-2007, 01:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Laz

the BCS hates mizzou as much as the rest of us ...... what other "take" is there?

Pierce · 12-03-2007, 01:26 PM

Missouri is just not really an attractive football program, and neither is KU. Both schools are not known for football, and recruits outside of the Midwest aren't too interested in going to Columbia, Mo. or Lawrence, Ks.

Apparently, KU was the more attractive team to the Orange Bowl selection committee. Probably has a lot to do with Lew Perkins selling his team hard.

cosmo20002 · 12-03-2007, 01:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by frazod

Why would that be? Seriously, what does Kansas have to offer? Bigger audience? Nope. Missouri's population is more than double that of Kansas. Bigger tradition? Again, no. Kansas has no tradition in football to speak of. More success? NO. We won head-to-head at a neutral field, effectively negating the one-loss season.

Missouri is just generally thought of as inferior to Kansas in general in althetics (probably due to KU's superior basketball program) and as a state (probably due to Missouri's abundance of meth labs and hillbillies).

Bottom line--you lose 2 games, you lose the right to whine about what bowl you get. So you're going to the 8th-best bowl instead of the 5th-best. So what? LSU has two losses--maybe you should whine about not going to the title game.

kcpasco · 12-03-2007, 01:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Laz

the BCS hates mizzou as much as the rest of us ...... what other "take" is there?

Really?

Last I checked Mizzou was #6 and KU #8, I'm no mathematician but seems like Missouri is ranked higher and just the dumb shits at the Orange wanted to suck you off.

Oh and deny it all you want but by the looks of all the radio and tv shows talking about this they tend to agree also

Pablo · 12-03-2007, 01:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sure-Oz

but but but they earned it!

Doesn't matter if we earned it or not. We're there.

Maybe Mizzou should have beat OU one time. Not twice..just one time, and they'd be playing in the NC game.

Mizzou fans call bawl their little eyes out.."it's not fair..the BCS hates Mizzou"..but the simple fact is that nobody cares about MU or KU on a national level right now. They cared about each program for about 2 weeks, and now it's back to the way it was before.

You think anyone on the East Coast is going...man I sure did enjoy watching MU get pounded by OU, I should probably check out the Cotton Bowl on New Years Day. Or the West Coast for that matter?

People will watch the Orange Bowl..if for no other reason that it's a marquee bowl game, and it will be force-fed down their throats.

It's funny how confident you Mizzou fans are that KU will get smashed by VT. Almost as confident as you were that there was no way OU could beat you again. You beat yourselves the first time, and a neutral site was all you needed to prove you were the best.

Did anybody even watch the BC/VT game? Because I did, and I'm about as impressed by the ACC Champs as I am by Hawaii.

12-03-2007, 09:51 AM
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Pierce Veteran Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Over the rainbow Casino cash: $10004900	Missouri is just not really an attractive football program, and neither is KU. Both schools are not known for football, and recruits outside of the Midwest aren't too interested in going to Columbia, Mo. or Lawrence, Ks. Apparently, KU was the more attractive team to the Orange Bowl selection committee. Probably has a lot to do with Lew Perkins selling his team hard. __________________
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