"Death to the BCS" book

#27
#27
Your constant whining and moaning and desperate need to be right would make a wee bit more sense if you were a USC fan or UT for that matter. At least you could make the claim your team has actually accomplished something significant in the last 20 years. Unlike U of O of course.
 
#30
#30
As you'll see in the book if you just got it, it's hilarious how bad the polls are in terms of who the voters are. A lot of them don't even watch the games, they just look at the result.
 
#31
#31
govols120 said:
As you'll see in the book if you just got it, it's hilarious how bad the polls are in terms of who the voters are. A lot of them don't even watch the games, they just look at the result.
Click to expand...

and this is different than basketball's selection committee how?
 
#33
#33
droski said:
i believe cal had more, but remember oregon was coming off a top-10 finish. their attendance to the holiday bowl a couple of years back was dismal. they have a loyal fanbase surely, but it's small. Their bandwagonners don't reach ucla or usc levels, but they have a lot of them.
Click to expand...

There are a lot of them right now... 90% are bandwagoners. Ducks go .500 next season and Autzen won't be selling out, and I see a bazillion percent less Duck paraphernalia around town.

To be fair, though, I wouldn't drive two+ hours for a season tickets worth of games every year to see a bad to mediocre product, either.

Back to the book, what's wrong with the bias it has? Yes, they set out to identify all the problems with the BCS, but all it does is lay out facts and the ONLY reasonable conclusion that anybody can come to when viewing all of them is that the bowl system is a gravy train overloaded with shmucks literally taking money by the truckload away from universities (and, in turn, YOUR tax dollars). It's exactly why we have 35 bowl games this year and nearly had to put a 5-7 team in a bowl game, so a few more a-holes can make $80k for organizing ONE football game.
 
#34
#34
milohimself said:
Back to the book, what's wrong with the bias it has? Yes, they set out to identify all the problems with the BCS, but all it does is lay out facts and the ONLY reasonable conclusion that anybody can come to when viewing all of them is that the bowl system is a gravy train overloaded with shmucks literally taking money by the truckload away from universities (and, in turn, YOUR tax dollars). It's exactly why we have 35 bowl games this year and nearly had to put a 5-7 team in a bowl game, so a few more a-holes can make $80k for organizing ONE football game.
Click to expand...

And why do you think our tax dollars have anything to do with the football teams going to bowl games?
 
#35
#35
UTRavens said:
Not very well written (shamelessly biased to an extreme level, which is hardly ever a good thing and isn't one here), and in this particular format and style it would have been better as a series of in-depth blog posts than a book.
Click to expand...

Whenever you pick up a book titled "Death to _______," you shouldn't be surprised that it is shamelessly biased. JMO
 
#36
#36
govols120 said:
As you'll see in the book if you just got it, it's hilarious how bad the polls are in terms of who the voters are. A lot of them don't even watch the games, they just look at the result.
Click to expand...

This is so true. Here is the loss column for the AP Top 25 from the Nov 21 week this year:

1. 0
2. 0
3. 0
4. 0
5. 1
6. 1
7. 1
8. 1
9. 2
10. 1
11. 1
12. 2
13. 2
14. 2
15. 2
16. 2
17. 3
18. 3
19. 1
20. 3
21. 3
22. 3
23. 2
24. 4
25. 4

There were only three teams where the voters didn't just go by record:
- #9 was the team many sportswriters picked to win it all. Sometimes it can be hard to admit you were wrong.
- #19 and #23 were non-AQ teams.
 
#38
#38
GreveHaller said:
And why do you think our tax dollars have anything to do with the football teams going to bowl games?
Click to expand...

Look at the bottom line for programs at public universities. There are plenty at the fbs level that operate in the red, after booster and GAF money is counted. We've already gone over how many of these schools are netting losses by simply playing in these bowl games.
Posted via VolNation Mobile
 
#40
#40
CardassianVol said:
Because the athletic departments at most public universities take state funding. UT is an exception.
Click to expand...

Then its not our tax dollars, its someone else's tax dollars in another state. Considering Vandy is private and Memphis State just plain sucks and rarely goes to a bowl game, there's no tax dollars out of our pocket.
 
#41
#41
milohimself said:
Look at the bottom line for programs at public universities. There are plenty at the fbs level that operate in the red, after booster and GAF money is counted. We've already gone over how many of these schools are netting losses by simply playing in these bowl games.
Posted via VolNation Mobile
Click to expand...

Sucks for them. Not my tax dollars so I really dont care
 
#43
#43
grevehaller said:
then its not our tax dollars, its someone else's tax dollars in another state. Considering vandy is private and memphis state just plain sucks and rarely goes to a bowl game, there's no tax dollars out of our pocket.
Click to expand...

ok. MTSU. Then consider that state governments sometimes need federal funds...
 
#44
#44
well, you made a blanket statement that it was taking money from universities and "in turn YOUR tax dollars" and that's not true at all. UTAD does not take any money from the state and is self funded. Considering this is a UT board the vast majority of fans live, or have lived, in Tennessee there are no tax dollars out of our pockets. What Alabama, Kentucky, or any other state does with their tax dollars really means nothing to us nor is there any reason why we should care. It was trying to make a blanket statement to justify the rant and it doesnt apply to Tennesseans
 
#48
#48
milohimself said:
Yeah. **** them, obviously.

Simply incredible.
Posted via VolNation Mobile
Click to expand...

if you'd like to find out how much our tax dollars went to the athletic departments of Memphis or MTSU, feel free to show it.

Other than that please state a reason why we need to worry about the tax dollars of Kentucky being spent on trips for Louisville, Western Ky, and Kentucky because for the life of me its simple incredible that someone from the state of Tennesse would actually care.
 
#49
#49
So everyone that's not a utk alum living in Tennessee can suck an egg.

Is that your final answer?
Posted via VolNation Mobile
 
#50
#50
milohimself said:
So everyone that's not a utk alum living in Tennessee can suck an egg.

Is that your final answer?
Posted via VolNation Mobile
Click to expand...

How other states deligate their tax dollars is their concern, not mine.

So is your final answer that our (the state of Tennessee) tax dollars go to bowl trips?
 
New posts
You must log in or register to reply here.

VN Store



Back
Top