Today, the BCS comissioners effectively shot down the Plus-One format that had been suggested as a change to the BCS. ESPN.com has the news here. In response, I have decided to write a few letters to those involved.
Dear Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany:
You are the reason college football is unfulfilling. You and your buddy over at the Pac-10. Your constant opposition to any playoff format to the Bowl Championship Series further enrages all the college football fans across the nation. Especially us here in the South.
You don’t care about the South you say? Just your Midwesterned/North based Big Ten conference? Ah well, you should care Mr. Delany. Because two southern teams from the Southeastern Conference, Florida and LSU, have made the pride and joy of your conference–Ohio State (take your THE and cram it)–have been embrassed in back-to-back years. In addition, the quarterback of the future at Michigan, Ryan Mallet, decided to transfer to a southern school, Arkansas, to better suit his needs. OUCH!
You use the comfort of the Pac-10, your conference athletic directors and the Rose Bowl to make you secure in your opposition. I prefer to agree with former ESPN and current Sporting News writer Dan Shanoff wrote back during the winter–leave the Big 10 out when it comes to a BCS playoff.
Obviously, your league is subpar. A two-trick pony. Worthless when it comes to real college football played here in the South. Hiding behind your Pac-10 buddies, who can slightly play better than you can, is shameful.
Oh and you also can’t count. The Big 10 conference as 11 teams, dummy.
Dear Rose Bowl committee:
Stop pushing your agenda on the Big Ten and Pac 10. You have an amazing bowl, that pretty much suffers because you limit yourself to taking teams from the crappy Big Ten. And usually second tier from the Pac-10, unless Southern Cal slips up. Dont you understand that the SEC and Big 12 are football country? Change is progress, my friends.
Dear other BCS Commissioners:
Men, take the same stand that SEC commissioner Mike Silve and ACC commissioner John Swofford have made. The fans want a playoff. They are the ones who pay your bills. We will leave you, just ask baseball. You can make an easy claim to being the top dog among TV sports. Dump the Pac-10 and Big Ten if they won’t join you. You can easily find champions between the SEC, Big 12, Big East and SEC. Add another conference, the Mountain West usually can contend, if you need to.
And everyone outside Pac-10 and Big Ten country can accept a champion from those teams. Trust me. Maybe even the cries will be for the Pac-10 and Big Ten to join the new fray. Instead, you failed us all.
If only fans talked louder than money. If only.
First off, thanks to statman and friend Corey Price for doing all the leg work on this.
