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Dick Vitale on the BCS

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I don't know if this has been mentioned yet, but Dick Vitale took a jab last night at the BCS by stating last night during the OSU/UNC game that college basketball is better than college football, because the little schools can beat the big schools. Here is an editorial about it:

[FONT=georgia, times new roman, times, serif]King Kaufman's Sports Daily

[/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]ESPN's basketball guys hammer the BCS. Now that it's not an ABC property, that is. Plus: Hoops whizzing match!

 [/FONT] [FONT=times new roman, times, serif] Nov. 30, 2006 | Really, really interesting to hear ESPN's college basketball guys ripping on college football two nights in a row. It couldn't have anything to do with the fact that ABC no longer has the excloo on the Bowl Championship Series, could it?

Tuesday night the studio crew, especially Jay Bilas, made a few snarky little comments about the BCS method of crowning a champion during halftime of the Indiana-Duke game. On Wednesday, Dick Vitale -- college basketball's most prominent cheerleader -- and his play-by-play partner Dan Shulman let the BCS have it with both barrels near the end of North Carolina's exciting win over Ohio State.

"I want to tell them why college basketball is head and shoulders above college football," Vitale said, referring to his friends, ESPN college football analysts Kirk Herbstreit and Chris Spielman. "Because in college basketball, the little guy, the little team, has a chance against the Goliath.

"The Davids, the Oral Roberts, the programs like Gonzaga, they have a chance. You have no chance in football for a mid-major to go up and beat Ohio State, Michigan, Notre Dame and Southern Cal in football."

"Right," Shulman chimed in.

"Case closed," Vitale continued, "college basketball gets the honors."

"And the other reason," Shulman said, "and I know you feel this one just as strongly, and it applies to Ohio State here tonight: Even if they lose tonight, it does not cripple their hopes to win a national championship."

"Exactly!" Vitale agreed. "After the first two weeks of college football, 90 percent of the schools are eliminated from chasing the dream of being a national champion."
Two Ohio State free throws and a full-shot-clock possession by North Carolina went by without comment during all this.

Vitale has been shilling for college hoops since the first day anyone put a microphone in front of him, and I think I've heard similar rants from him on this subject in previous years.

But there's never been this kind of drumbeat criticism of the BCS or college football on ESPN, which after all still carries a lot of college football games, including an astounding 21 bowl games this year, plus the two ABC will carry, the non-BCS Capital One Bowl and the BCS Rose Bowl.

This is a good thing.

Hardly anybody other than the honchos of the six BCS conferences likes the BCS, but those honchos have a lot of power.

But I'm not sure anybody has as much power in sports as the Worldwide Leader. If the talking heads there have the green light to take potshots at college football for not having a tournament, that might increase the momentum for a tournament just a little bit.

Maybe when the NCAA powers that be get past their urgent worries over whether Boise State running back Ian Johnson might be illegally giving crocheted beanies to charity -- the cur! -- they'll start listening to this new drumbeat.

http://www.salon.com/sports/col/kaufman/2006/11/30/thursday/index.html
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Dickie V is absolutely, 100% right on this. Why are teams like Boise St., Auburn, and Tulane even in D-1 football if they can't even go undefeated and have a shot at the national title?

Why can't we all just look at the feces that is the BCS/Poll System in general, and agree on what it is? It's not even a close argument.
 
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"And the other reason," Shulman said, "and I know you feel this one just as strongly, and it applies to Ohio State here tonight: Even if they lose tonight, it does not cripple their hopes to win a national championship."

"Exactly!" Vitale agreed. "
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Translation: In Basketball individual games don't really mean anything.

Can't wait for CFB to move in that direction.
 
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he has mentioned this same shat before on espn. he was asking why the little guys like the gonzagas and oral roberts never knock off the ohio states and michigans........well DICK it might because they either are A: too small to have a football team or B: nowhere remotely close to being DIA. vitale is the biggest moron in the sports world today and that speaks volumes in itself. and just to mention it since when is gonzaga a little guy in the NCAA bball world? DICK comes in here during the early season talking about his MASSIVE upsets like oral roberts over kansas even though oral roberts made the NCAA tourney last year......please
 
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StadiumDorm;674308; said:
Dickie V is absolutely, 100% right on this. Why are teams like Boise St., Auburn, and Tulane even in D-1 football if they can't even go undefeated and have a shot at the national title?

Why can't we all just look at the feces that is the BCS/Poll System in general, and agree on what it is? It's not even a close argument.
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I'm with you on this.
A bunch of old bingo winners/computers,bcs
making the decisions like they have a clue. To find out a true champion they have to play it out on the field and can't depend on them for the right answer.

playoffs
 
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tsteele316;674339; said:
if they want to dance with the big boys, they should sack up and schedule one in a OOC game.
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Yeah, those advance schedules where have to know how good your opponent is going to be in 5 years. Yeah, those advance schedules where the big schools duck the dangerous little schools.

According to that logic, someone should call Boise St. and tell them to schedule USC, Michigan and Florida for 2011 now... as if all, or any, of those teams would do it.


Translation: In Basketball individual games don't really mean anything.

Can't wait for CFB to move in that direction.
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Ridiculous. If college basketball were like college football, Ohio State would not schedule strong programs like North Carolina and Florida in the same year. Then we'd miss out on some exciting games.

And try telling those guys on the court last night that the game didn't mean anything.
 
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StadiumDorm;674353; said:
Yeah, those advance schedules where have to know how good your opponent is going to be in 5 years. Yeah, those advance schedules where the big schools duck the dangerous little schools.
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With the NCAA recently moving to 12-game schedules, there are still a bunch of open dates at every level of competition in the next few years. And not knowing how good a team will be in 5 years? I think you can be reasonably sure that your average BCS-conference team is going to be better than, say, Sacramento State or Wyoming. If Boise had played 3 Oregon States they'd probably be in better shape rankings-wise right now.
 
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