11.28
I sure hope all the reports were wrong about you coming to the SEC to have a better chance at a national title. Because your about to be the next victim of the ESPN/ABC asset protection squad. Members include Chris Fowler, Kirk Herbstreit, Lee Corso, Mark May, Rece Davis, Lou Holtz and Brent Musberger. These folks have made sure that just like 2004, you will in no way be playing for a national championship this year. Even if you destroy Arkansas in the SEC championship game, you will be going no higher than the Sugar Bowl. The problem isn’t your team. The problem is that your conference has a television contract with the wrong network. Until the SEC renegotiates its contract over to ABC, you can forget an SEC team in the NC. Michigan didn’t even win their own conference. USC lost to an unranked team. Florida’s only loss was on the road at top-10 Auburn. You tell me who deserves to go. And don’t give me this tripe about USC having a tougher schedule. Florida had one of the hardest schedules in the country.
The audacity of Brent Musberger to campaign on national television for Notre Dame to go to the Rose Bowl against Michigan is almost too much. Michigan already beat them within an inch of their life earlier in the season. If the Rose Bowl chooses Notre Dame over LSU, it will be clear that the SEC should just pull out of the BCS altogether. What use is it being a member of an orginazation that is so influenced by one or two of it’s members that it leaves the rest out in the cold? If it comes down to Ohio State vs. USC in the NC game, and Michigan vs. Notre Dame in the Rose Bowl, the SEC ought to pull out the Monday after selection Sunday. That means that once again the SEC gets nothing more than it’s mandatory conference tie-in to the Sugar Bowl and the Pac-10, Big-10 and Notre Dame get all the rest of the BCS money. When is the SEC going to wake up and learn that they are leaving money on the table every year in this stupid system. We got a little more respect when Roy Kramer was still in charge because he invented the BCS but now that he is gone, the SEC has been kicked to the curb.
And just to finish up with a little SEC love. Georgia beat the ACC divisional champ Georgia Tech over the weekend, and South Carolina beat ranked Clemson, and Florida beat Florida State. The SEC has cleaned up against good non-conference competition this year but we are getting no credit for it because of the Arkansas blowout by USC. Thanks a lot Arkansas. If you could have just put in your freaky magic-trick offense from the get go, maybe we wouldn’t have to endure yet another USC team in the NC game.
