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OSU President: TCU, Boise State don't deserve to play for national title
« on: November 24, 2010, 08:44:45 AM »
Even if TCU and Boise State run the table, they still don't deserve to be in the Bowl Championship Series title game, Ohio State president E. Gordon Gee said Wednesday.

In an interview with The Associated Press, the president at the university with the largest athletic program in the country said that TCU and Boise State do not face a difficult enough schedule to play in the national championship game.

Gee, long an admirer of the BCS and the current bowl system, said he was against a playoff in the Football Bowl Subdivision because it was "a slippery slope to professionalism."

A former president at West Virginia, Colorado, Brown and Vanderbilt universities, Gee said he favoured the "mixed-up mystery" of the current system.

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Re: OSU President: TCU, Boise State don't deserve to play for national title
« Reply #1 on: November 24, 2010, 09:04:40 AM »
More from the pointy-headed academic:

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"Well, I don't know enough about the Xs and Os of college football," said Gee, formerly the president at West Virginia, Colorado, Brown and Vanderbilt universities. "I do know, having been both a Southeastern Conference president and a Big Ten president, that it's like murderer's row every week for these schools. We do not play the Little Sisters of the Poor. We play very fine schools on any given day. So I think until a university runs through that gauntlet that there's some reason to believe that they not be the best teams to [be] in the big ballgame."

Gee, long an admirer of the BCS and the current bowl system, said he was against a playoff in the Football Bowl Subdivision.

"If you put a gun to my head and said, 'What are you going to do about a playoff system [if] the BCS system as it now exists goes away?' I would vote immediately to go back to the bowl system," he said.

He said the current system is better for the student-athletes.

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"You know, it's a mystery," Gee said. "We were No. 1 then No. 11 then No. 7 and we ended up playing for the national championship. I think I kind of like that mixed-up mystery."

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Re: OSU President: TCU, Boise State don't deserve to play for national title
« Reply #2 on: November 24, 2010, 09:15:21 AM »
never, ever ask an academic about the myriad complexities of college football.  you could have asked him what a first down was, and he would have said something about geese.

(and no, I'm not going to pick the fight that we have every time this subject arises :-) )
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Re: OSU President: TCU, Boise State don't deserve to play for national title
« Reply #3 on: November 24, 2010, 09:23:32 AM »
Quote from: Wretched Excess on November 24, 2010, 09:15:21 AM
never, ever ask an academic about the myriad complexities of college football.  you could have asked him what a first down was, and he would have said something about geese.

(and no, I'm not going to pick the fight that we have every time this subject arises :-) )

I'm obviously biased, but comments like this make me wish that both Oregon and Auburn lose this or next weekend.

And I don't want to argue this again either...  :cheersmate:
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Re: OSU President: TCU, Boise State don't deserve to play for national title
« Reply #4 on: November 24, 2010, 09:26:48 AM »
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Re: OSU President: TCU, Boise State don't deserve to play for national title
« Reply #5 on: November 24, 2010, 09:34:13 AM »
Quote from: Ralph Wiggum on November 24, 2010, 09:23:32 AM
I'm obviously biased, but comments like this make me wish that both Oregon and Auburn lose this or next weekend.

And I don't want to argue this again either...  :cheersmate:

however, I do agree with you that if TCU wins out, and doesn't get a shot, then they are getting screwed.
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Re: OSU President: TCU, Boise State don't deserve to play for national title
« Reply #6 on: November 24, 2010, 09:41:15 AM »
Quote from: Wretched Excess on November 24, 2010, 09:34:13 AM
however, I do agree with you that if TCU wins out, and doesn't get a shot, then they are getting screwed.

There's a possibility that they or Boise won't even make a BCS game, whomever ends up ranked lower in the final BCS standings.
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Re: OSU President: TCU, Boise State don't deserve to play for national title
« Reply #7 on: November 24, 2010, 09:50:27 AM »
Quote from: Ralph Wiggum on November 24, 2010, 09:41:15 AM
There's a possibility that they or Boise won't even make a BCS game, whomever ends up ranked lower in the final BCS standings.

auburn is going to have a tough time at alabama.  I have been waiting for oregon to lose all season.  wouldn't it rock the college football world if they both lost friday? :-)
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Re: OSU President: TCU, Boise State don't deserve to play for national title
« Reply #8 on: November 24, 2010, 09:55:00 AM »
Quote from: Wretched Excess on November 24, 2010, 09:50:27 AM
auburn is going to have a tough time at alabama.  I have been waiting for oregon to lose all season.  wouldn't it rock the college football world if they both lost friday? :-)

I'd love it, but somehow there will be an argument made that a one-loss Auburn or Oregon deserves to play in the title game. :argh:
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Re: OSU President: TCU, Boise State don't deserve to play for national title
« Reply #9 on: November 24, 2010, 09:55:40 AM »
Well, my wife will be happy if Auburn loses to USC.... :-)

I'll live good for a few days.... :-)

....and if USC beats Clemson Saturday, I could have a good 2 or 3  weeks.... :-)

That momma's happy with her team is my only interest in college football.
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Re: OSU President: TCU, Boise State don't deserve to play for national title
« Reply #10 on: November 24, 2010, 10:01:27 AM »
Quote from: Ralph Wiggum on November 24, 2010, 09:55:00 AM
I'd love it, but somehow there will be an argument made that a one-loss Auburn or Oregon deserves to play in the title game. :argh:

they wouldn't dare . . . would they?
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Re: OSU President: TCU, Boise State don't deserve to play for national title
« Reply #11 on: November 24, 2010, 10:15:55 AM »
Quote from: Wretched Excess on November 24, 2010, 10:01:27 AM
they wouldn't dare . . . would they?

It really depends on those who vote in the Coaches poll and the Harris Poll.  The computers averages already have TCU & Boise ranked very highly.  Now it is the humans that can screw this up.
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Re: OSU President: TCU, Boise State don't deserve to play for national title
« Reply #12 on: November 24, 2010, 02:21:21 PM »
OSU? Oh...Ohio State

I was thinking that this was highly out of character for Burns Hargis.  :rotf:
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Re: OSU President: TCU, Boise State don't deserve to play for national title
« Reply #13 on: December 01, 2010, 07:10:32 AM »
Quote from: Ralph Wiggum on November 24, 2010, 08:44:45 AM
Even if TCU and Boise State run the table, they still don't deserve to be in the Bowl Championship Series title game, Ohio State president E. Gordon Gee said Wednesday.

In an interview with The Associated Press, the president at the university with the largest athletic program in the country said that TCU and Boise State do not face a difficult enough schedule to play in the national championship game.

Gee, long an admirer of the BCS and the current bowl system, said he was against a playoff in the Football Bowl Subdivision because it was "a slippery slope to professionalism."

A former president at West Virginia, Colorado, Brown and Vanderbilt universities, Gee said he favoured the "mixed-up mystery" of the current system.

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Considering the weak schedule Ohio State played this year i think i would shut up if i were him!.....Eastern Michigan Gordon? ::)
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Re: OSU President: TCU, Boise State don't deserve to play for national title
« Reply #14 on: December 01, 2010, 07:27:47 AM »
Memo to Ohio State--neither do you as it currently stands.  You lost to Wisconsin, you barely beat Iowa (actually, Iowa beat themselves more than you beat them), and you really have no place to talk about strength of schedule.

Go away, Ohio State.
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Re: OSU President: TCU, Boise State don't deserve to play for national title
« Reply #15 on: December 07, 2010, 11:14:46 PM »
TCU is doing good. Ohio State is weak on the road than at home. I think Oregon and Auburn deserve it the most. One problem with Auburn involving Cam Newton. It is the pay-for-play that got SMU football team the "death penalty".

http://blogs.babble.com/strollerderby/2010/12/05/cam-newton-auburn-to-play-for-bsc-champtionship-despite-cams-dad/
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