...ND coaching and BCS
BCS first, and the 3-way ties thing. For what it's worth, I'd like to point out that this year the BCS is working EXACTLY as intended. The national championship game will likely pair the winners of the 2 undisputedly best conferences, which combine to include 4 of the consensus top 5 (and 5 of the top 7) teams in the country. So, my apologies to USC (not really), but their conference and related strength of schedule wasn't good enough to merit their single loss as a national championship contender.
Although the SEC model worked out fine this year, the Big XII tiebreaker for determining the South division champion is really the problem. By this point, we know that OU is going to the Big XII Championship and, hopefully for the BCS, the national championship. (What a mess it would be if Missouri somehow finds a way to win that game.) But this is a problem with the conference, not the BCS, so don't blame the BCS for this.
I agree that it's unfortunate that Texas and TTU (I hate that people are discounting them because their BCS rank isn't as high in large part because they weren't a preseason top 10 team and lost most recently) apparently won't have a chance to factor into the national title picture, but I don't have a solution for the conference tiebreaker, so to go any further with this would be counterproductive.
However, in response to earlier posts, I am against forced scheduling, in large part because I think it is unnecessary and impractical and I think that it could hurt historical inter-conference rivalries (i.e. ND/UM, ND/USC, Florida/FSU, Iowa/Iowa St., etc.) because who would want to play a 3rd marquee non-conference game if they already have to play 2? I am also against an 8-team playoff because mid-December scheduling interferes with finals and because now you are bringing 2-loss teams into the picture.
Now ND coaching. I am for the most part in agreement with most of the other sentiments posted on this site. I think ND is in a lose-lose situation right now. Therefore, for too many reasons to write on a post that is already too long, I think that the best course of action is to keep Weis for at least one more and probably two more years. Link Weis to Clausen and that class--if he can't get it done in 1 1/2 years, fire him mid-season and be first in line to get a new coach.
Or maybe he'll die from "health complications" before that point.
Sunday, November 30, 2008
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Going back to an earlier comment, Big XII should use the BCS to eliminate the bottom teams of a tie and keep working up until you can do a head to head tie breaker.
As for a playoff, I'd go for four teams. Doesn't cut into finals because it's one extra game for two teams and it seems that most of the time it's that 3rd or 4th ranked team that's getting screwed (not the 8th ranked team).
Final point, I agree with Ookie - tie Weis to Clausen's class. I'm saying the class and not just Clausen because if Clausen keeps playing as is, Dayne Crist can hopefully push him on the depth chart.
Meyer ain't coming back to Notre Dame. He had his chance and chose Florida over the Irish.
Gruden ain't happening either. He'd be a slightly more asshole version of Bill Callahan.
Peterson is a possibility but I don't see the Irish AD going for him.
And I don't see the Irish AD going for somebody like Butch Davis who was once associated with the Miami Hurricanes. You know, that whol "Catholics vs. Convicts" thing.
One of Brian Kelly or Greg Schiano is the next Irish HC after Weis tanks it again in '09.
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