The Fun In Funeral: 2011 College Football's Dark New Orleans Sendoff
Spencer Hall puts the last words on the 2011 football season.
If there was to be a funeral for 2011, it was only fitting that it take place in New Orleans, and that the somber Crimson Tide be the ones perform the services, and then enjoy the proper festivities of a NOLA funeral march afterwards. Don't mourn the passing of this one, though. No one will, or should. A funeral is still a funeral.
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The inevitable and methodical march towards a playoff continues...
You see it little by little every year…
- When pollsters subvert the process to jump an SEC team over another into the BCS title game (Florida 2006) to avoid a rematch…but not a non-SEC team (OK State 2011).
- When a one-loss team beats an undefeated team that gave them their only loss…and they win the NC (Alabama 2011, Florida 1996) without a deciding game.
- When conference memberships are so geographically jacked up, unmanageable in size, and in a contsant state of flux…in an attempt to land as many schools in AQ conferences. This only increases the chances that a team draws a weak conference schedule and ruins the meritocracy.
- When yet another non-AQ school gets shut out of the BCS system (Houston 2011) in favor of a lesser-deserving, larger-drawing school (VPI 2011).
- When EVERY LEVEL OF ORGANIZED FOOTBALL has a playoff except D1 (FBS) college football…because “Heads in Beds” means more to the NCAA than integrity.
Eventually, the greed of TV dollars and AQ conference status will driver conference sizes larger and larger, will continue to produce perpetually unfair results, and widen the revenue gaps between schools despite wins on the field…until people decide they have had enough.
It is coming…
"Reach down in there...TURN THAT DAMN THING UP!" - Coach Paul Johnson
Not just every level of organized football.....
Every level of any other sport out there has some sense of playoff or entirely “results-based-results”. This is the only one that functions anything like this.
Other than that, nice chronicle of events. I like where this is going.
The Church of Paul Johnson - There's not much to it outside of whooping ass and giving haters the finger. To HELL With georgie!
Yep
Anyone else happy ? We woke up to 3 teams with relatively equal claims to being the “best football team in Division 1.” You can join any of three factions in America right now and view this one as a 3-way split title (UA, LSU, OSU), a two-way split title (UA, LSU), or a “best record” title held by LSU. But, most importantly, what you cannot be is 100% certain that the team you hold up as the 2011 title-holder is definitively NCAA D-1 FBS’s best team.
It is for this reason I will agree that at VERY LEAST, there needs to be a provision for some kind of tie-breaking game if the #‘s 1 and 2 BCS teams are 1-1 against each other. But I most strongly support the idea the top few teams (maybe top 4, i don’t care) face each other in single elimination after bowl season is concluded to determine the best team in the country without room for argument.
I met her on the campus, sir, cheering the Brave and Bold.
The +1 Model
seems to me to be the best compromise out there. In almost every season, there isn’t more than four teams that are at the top that have a legitimate shot at being champions.
Yes, I can't stand it.
I can’t stand it, I tell you.
by Atlanta's original team on Jan 10, 2012 3:38 PM EST up reply actions
Imagine
1. LSU v 4.Andrew Luck: Fiesta 1/2/12
2. Run Ninky Run v 3. T Boone’s Allstars : Cotton 1/3
Sugar Bowl 1/10/12
I hope they split UPI AP SPORTING NEWS.
You'd do it for Randolph Scott!
RANDOLPH SCOTT!
by DressHerInWhiteAndGold on Jan 10, 2012 3:26 PM EST reply actions
It would've been so simple.
Bama and LSU could easily have rematched, but they would’ve first silenced the competition first.
But one must consider even in this scenario the outcome could be a Bama win for LSU and UA to be 1-1 against each other. In that case, I would imagine you’d have to award a split title or allow a tie-breaker game. Not doing so renders their SEC West tilt earlier in the season pointless.
I met her on the campus, sir, cheering the Brave and Bold.
The MNC game unfolded just like I said it would in one of our earlier blog polls
I saw this game earlier in the season and the sequel was just as boring as the original. The best excitement during the entire night was when LSU’s QB threw the pick and then appeared to break one of Bama’s defender’s leg. That actually made me sit up. Seriously, there were like 8 straight FG attempts and they were all from Bama. That game was horrible and should have never been played.
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Fact.
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