Tuesday, November 25, 2008

FCS playoff pairings announced - commenters erupt


That would be Division 1-AA for most of us, still.

One of the “advantages” shills for the BCS like to point out in the wizard-behind-the-curtain nature of the BCS rankings process is that the resulting controversy of this entirely opaque process means that “everybody is talking about it” and “it generates a ‘buzz’”.

But do you know what else generates a buzz? Drinking malt liquor through a straw – and like the BCS-induced high, we don’t recommend it for minors, pregnant women or while operating heavy machinery… or anybody else, for that matter.

And by this logic, then, the NCAA men’s basketball tournament, the most perfect playoff system on the planet is a complete dud… because no one talks about it. No one takes off work on the first-round Thursdays and Fridays, no one goes to Vegas during the tournament, company computer servers don’t overload or even crash because no one is streaming live video over the ‘net during working hours and mostly, NO ONE ever participates in the, technically illegal, tournament office pools.

Seriously, what is this March Madness you speak of?

Anyway, the matchups can be found here at AOL Fanhouse accompanyed by vigorous commenting by disgruntled fans.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I have a soft spot in my heart for the Grizz of Montana, just cuz I like watching football played in the snow.

But the real "look out below" belongs to Cal Poly -- they of the beating of D-1 San Diego State and, much more impressively, losing in DOUBLE overtime to the Wisconsin Badgers, in Madison, in late November!

Still, one must never look past perennial power and Michigan-slayer App State.

This stuff just may be worth watching!

- Mongo Gearing Up for His Three Subdivision College Football Viewings a Year