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[Lister]

I am an Auburn alumnus.  You do not need to tell me that the BCS is fucked.  I know this already.

[Nabubrush]

Likewise. And the rankings are absurd.

[Asherdan]

Anything you hear about the impossibility of a playoff for D-1 ball is bullshit. The general excuse of not lengthening the season and the impact on the student athlete is straight hooey. Most teams finish their schedules by Thanksgiving, letting players have more slack time to prep for quarter/semesters end. Bowl (or playoff) practices are predicated on this. A three week 8 team playoff could run right after Christmas to the second week of January and finish in time with the start of school. Football at this level is year round anyways, the only setback would be to the offseason conditioning programs of 8 teams. The vested interest of the big daddy bowls, television and ca$h, along with a fear of changing a 'good' thing are what's holding this down.

I'll tell you what, I know the players would dig it and the coaches damn sure aren't afraid of it.

[littlefallsmets]

Basically, the only things holding college football back from a playoff are...

The money guys behind the bowls fearing that change will make them less profitable and the conference guys afraid that sane open competition will take away the arbitrary power of this conference or that.

Eight team playoff, take the four BCS bowls rotate them through the playoffs, every year one of them gets the final, two of them get the semifinal and one of them gets whichever of the quarterfinals they decide is the most interesting television draw... the other three quarterfinals go permanently to the three second-tier bowls with the longest traditions or whatever.

Quarterfinals Christmas week, semis the "traditional" New Years week, the final the week after that.

The six BCS conference champions get six spots, the next best two teams get the other two spots.

All the other crap bowls can still be the consolation games they've been since the BCS started to begin with.

Real. Real. Easy.

Except for the money.

Of course none of this applies to me as a 'Cuse alum as they are the worst team in the least-major of the major conferences.

They ain't goin' nowhere.

[KeithHernandez]

The worst thing about the polls is that they are, themselves, based on preseason polls, which are just guesses.

[Nabubrush]

Fuck me I am in an airport bar and I am, god help me, watching UCLA playing WSU. No such game this weekend, you say? No, I ma watch Mike Riley coaching the worst fuck*ng player ever to happen to the Bolts - Ryan fuck*ng Leaf. Jesus. I might as well start drinking Jaeger and Calmato.

[jaydub]

Fuck me I am in an airport bar and I am, god help me, watching UCLA playing WSU. No such game this weekend, you say? No, I ma watch Mike Riley coaching the worst fuck*ng player ever to happen to the Bolts - Ryan fuck*ng Leaf. Jesus. I might as well start drinking Jaeger and Calmato.

Not to rub too much salt in, but you have to admit, as train wrecks go he was even better than Todd Marinovich.  (Who, incidentally, got busted a few days ago for resisting arrest while - I kid you not - skateboarding illegally.  His resistance might have had something to do with the syringe full of meth he was carrying.)
Edit:  I take it back.  On further reflection Leaf isn't as spectacular a train wreck as Marinovich.  He doesn't even excel at sucking.

[Nabubrush]

He couldn't even give us the pleasure of that, because he is now a reasonably successful college football and golf coach. I want the crank addict skate-boarder! Plus, Marinovich didn't cost anywhere near as much.

[smick]

Jaeger and Calmato.

My head got all swimmy, and my eyes teared up when I read that.  It's like my soul could taste the concept.  When foodies go to hell, they're served fennel and anise stuffed oysters, sauteed in a licorice bridge mix roux.  It goes well with a chilled cough syrup.

[Arachno-capitalist]

I might as well start drinking Jaeger and Calmato.

i seriously felt ill after i read this. so ill i ate a maalox.

[CortJstr]

My head got all swimmy, and my eyes teared up when I read that.  It's like my soul could taste the concept.  When foodies go to hell, they're served fennel and anise stuffed oysters, sauteed in a licorice bridge mix roux.  It goes well with a chilled cough syrup.

I thought that in hell foodies just ate at the Cheesecake Factory and Olive Garden. And Ranch 1 for lunch.

[Arachno-capitalist]

I thought that in hell foodies just ate at the Cheesecake Factory and Olive Garden. And Ranch 1 for lunch.

the fuck you got against the cheesecake factory? that place is on point.

[littlefallsmets]

I know many foodies that consider Arbys to be the worst food on Earth but, like, to be honest, I find it to be slightly better than most fast-food. Basically crude gut-filler and I don't wanna know what the hell is in it but usually better than other fast food equivs.

[linnea]

the fuck you got against the cheesecake factory? that place is on point.

They have awesome cheesecake. Aside from that, they have a huge, terrible menu full of mediocre food.

[CortJstr]

They have awesome cheesecake. Aside from that, they have a huge, terrible menu full of mediocre food.

And I don't like cheesecake. Plus there's always people waiting outside, even when the mom-n-pop restaurant around the corner has free tables from which to enjoy their much tastier food.