Comments on: BCS: bungling, corrupt and stupid

By: Some final thoughts on this year’s BCS debacle and a possible solution to all our problems | Scholars and Rogues

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:35:26 +0000

[...] the BS BCS fails again. Which it always does. But not everyone hates it. I mean, all the corrupt people who profit from it love the system. But there are regular fans who defend it, as well. I have a friend, for instance [...]

By: March Madness vs. the BCS: neither is perfect, but all controversies are not created equal | Scholars and Rogues

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 04:20:56 +0000

[...] there is a difference between a bad system and a poor execution of a good system. The Bungling, Corrupt and Stupid Series is a joke. There are lots and lots of specific problems with it, but let’s focus on the one [...]

By: John

John — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 01:51:28 +0000

I want to get a shirt that say’s ” Bucked by the BCS ….again ” and change the B on bucked to a big “F” Boise State screwed twice in the past 4 years I think that is about how many times the decision makers get laid.

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Fri, 07 Dec 2007 03:34:32 +0000

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By: Dr. Slammy

Dr. Slammy — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:19:44 +0000

Right. When the bought-up whores say “but how would it work,” smack them upside their heads and say “just like it does in every other sport and division you operate.” And if they say anything about the length of the season or the “integrity” of the academic process, smack them again and ask about Ohio State’s 50+ day layoff this year…..

By: Darrell

Darrell — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:00:33 +0000

If there was a playoff system I’d watch a hell of a lot more college football. What shocks me is that these same people who are afraid of losing money could profit even more with a playoff system. Here’s a link to a pretty good playoff model.

http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaaf/news?slug=dw-playoff112707&prov=yhoo&type=lgns

SNL did a great skit about Notre Dame Football, I can’t find it, but it was classic.

By: Dr. Slammy

Dr. Slammy — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 23:59:38 +0000

Again with the content-free bob-and-weave.

You lose all credibility when you jump from an analysis of facts,

That I lose cred is an empty assertion of opinion on your part. Like everything else you say, completely unsupported by evidence or analysis. But do go on.

to a 6 point metaphysical theory

You use this term in a way that makes me think you don’t know what it means.

of the college sports universe that scorches the earth and all its inhabitants.

Ummm, no. I scorch the guilty parties and do so in a fairly specific way. Try reading more closely and stop distorting what I actually said. Because, you know, it’s right up the page in black and white.

You may find yourself amusing and entertaining, and so may some of your audience, but the mind and the pen are not enemies, and some of us still have enough wit about us to recognize when they are at serious war.

A nicely turned phrase. Now would you demonstrate that the mind and the keyboard and some actual facts and analysis met at a party once?

If you believe your summation represents a fair appraisal of the facts, then thereâ€™s no reasonable or rational rebuttal that I have to offer that could possibly influence you.

It’s hard to say whether a reasonable or rational rebuttal would sway my opinion because you’ve not yet offered one. In fact, you’ve not yet offered a single fact, a single refutation of any of my carefully presented facts, a single data point. Nothing. You’re like the half-assed liquor store thief with his hand in his pocket pointing his finger at the clerk so he’ll think you have a gun.

Okay, bluff called. If you have an argument let’s hear it. Otherwise sit down and be quiet.

By: Gepetto

Gepetto — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 23:50:27 +0000

To contend that the system is flawed is one thing. Hardly polemical enough for carpet-bombing-Dresden appetites such as yours. You lose all credibility when you jump from an analysis of facts, even a spun one such as yours, to a 6 point metaphysical theory of the college sports universe that scorches the earth and all its inhabitants. You may find yourself amusing and entertaining, and so may some of your audience, but the mind and the pen are not enemies, and some of us still have enough wit about us to recognize when they are at serious war.

If you believe your summation represents a fair appraisal of the facts, then there’s no reasonable or rational rebuttal that I have to offer that could possibly influence you. Bye bye and happy sanctimonious bombing.

By: Dr. Slammy

Dr. Slammy — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 23:13:28 +0000

The Auburn example is maybe the best ever. Anytime a team gets out of the SEC, easily the best conference in the nation, UNDEFEATED and they don’t get to play for the title, you have a disgrace BY DEFINITION.

By: Toucan

Toucan — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 22:36:13 +0000

Seriously, how can you disagree with anything said in this article. Even fans of schools that have a chance to play for the title know that the system is a farce, they’re just too dishonest to admit it. Remember a couple of years ago when Auburn, USC, Oklahoma, and Utah all went undefeated and they took Oklahoma over Auburn in the title game. Auburn played in the Del Taco Conselation Bowl and won big, Utah plastered a 6-4 Pitt team, and USC used Oklahoma as toilet paper to wipe their title stained asses. Great system.

By: Dr. Slammy

Dr. Slammy — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:59:40 +0000

At my house the basement sniper ports face straight down. Draw your own conclusions.

By: Lara Amber

Lara Amber — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:58:05 +0000

I’m still trying to figure out what “six point inductive leap” means.

How does a basement have sniper ports? What are we defending against, burrowing prairie dogs?

By: JS O'Brien

JS O'Brien — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 19:24:23 +0000

Let’s see, Gepetto says Slammy has a misshapen head and lives in a bunker with sniper ports, then whines about Slammy’s retaliation. Ad hominem for ad hominem.

Let me add my own. I suspect Gepetto is from one of the shining examples of higher ed that manages not to graduate football players from their recreation and apparel classes.

By: Dr. Slammy

Dr. Slammy — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 19:18:31 +0000

I don’t see any evidence that you ever attended any lectures on argumentation at all. I made a case – a case that draws heavily on clear facts. Point to where I’m wrong about any of the BCS facts I note. Any of them. Just one will suffice. You accuse me of twisting facts – point to one.

You walk in here and bitch that you don’t like my case. If you have a REBUTTAL let’s hear it. Otherwise all I’m seeing is attitude, which isn’t really very compelling.

By: Gepetto

Gepetto — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 19:12:39 +0000

I guess Dr. Slammy you weren’t paying much attention when she was teaching argumentum ad hominem, the refuge of the scoundrel without an argument.

By: Dr. Slammy

Dr. Slammy — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 19:07:56 +0000

Lara: It takes a special kind of woman to care so much about so little.

By: Dr. Slammy

Dr. Slammy — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 19:06:54 +0000

Which bowl game do you ~~pimp~~ work for, Gepetto? Or are you an AD at a BCS conference school? Towel boy at NCAA headquarters? Head of the “entertainment committee” for on-campus recruiting at LSU? Give us a clue. Or an intelligent response – whichever you think you’re capable of.

By: Lara Amber

Lara Amber — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 19:06:05 +0000

Sam,

I only have one thing to say:

GO BUCKEYES!!!!

Lara Amber

By: Gepetto

Gepetto — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 18:56:05 +0000

Classic. Start with some facts. Bend them to your disposition, and end up with a six point inductive leap that would have made your college logic instructor pitch your ass out your basement refuge in a rage, if she coulda forced your misshapen head through its sniper ports. LOL.

By: All BCS, All The Time

All BCS, All The Time — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:16:53 +0000

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