TheIronColonel;1638908; said:
Winning 4 national championships in a row would be a hell of a lot more impressive if winning the conference wasn't an automatic berth in the MNC, or if one of the other 9 teams in the conference could do anything worth talking about.
Now you are really grasping at straws. Three different teams from one's same conference winning the MNC in three consecutive years and you talk about other teams not doing anything worth talking about? IC, I hope you live to the ripe old age of 100, and that the Bucks win forty more Big-10 titles, every Rose Bowl you play in, and numerous MNCs. But if that fortunate occurrence happens, I very much think that you will have died never experiencing three different teams Big-10 teams winning the MNC in three consecutive years.* The next obvious factor is that you demean the SEC's Bowl record of 6-4 while, I suppose, thinking the Big-10's 4-3 2010 bowl record is far better than ours. One team won a BCSNC, and that was an SEC team. The Bucks win was awesome. But, all due respect, not an achievement equal to a BCSNC. One team had an offensive performance that set the all time BCS passing offense and individual yards record. That was also an SEC team. Maybe you have a bowl game (non-BCS of course) that you thinks stacks up to that accomplishment, and will inform us all. But if not, your comment is silly. My commenting on SEC success is not meant as a slam at you. The Big-10 had a really successful year, and you had a good bowl showing. I have no need to criticize your conference for anything they did this fall. Finally some of the heat is off of you due to the great victory over the Ducks. And I have no desire to insult anything about tOSU, a program that I have grown fond of and that has one of the true coaching greats.
But you leave me wondering how you reconcile the part of your brain that says that SEC victories do not inure to other SEC teams while maintaining that the fourth in a row BCSNC is somehow diminished by you pointing out an SEC bowl win percentage higher than the Big-10s...
As to your "automatic berth to the MNC" slam, anyone with the slightest bit of neutrality has to admit that six of six somewhat validates the premise supporting the "automatic berth". I remember lots of lobbying by Meyer, bitching about his lobbying, but nothing about any auto bid. Anyway, if it is an auto bid, never losing a BCSCG in six tries can have an effect on voters' minds even more compelling than the mighty S-E-C chant.
Congrats on a great season for the Big-10 and for Ohio State, who did the most to bury the myth of Big-10 inadequacy in a highly public manner.
* Of course, that is not meant as smack or an insult, and I've been advised that you don't give a crap about any one in the conference save the Buckeyes - right? I mean, its certainly not a slap at tOSU. You guys have carried the water for the whole Big-10 for years.
