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Dave chooses his words wisely. Note his last sentence. If the BCS schools ever go on their merry way, we will still be competing at the highest level available to UofA.

There has to be football and MBB to at least try to make some attempt to support the "building process". Without those, the bubble bursts sooner rather than later. I'm not even certain that for most schools, the bubble ever bursts because most of the players are publicly funded schools. That being the case, regardless of how bad it gets, the taxpayers will soak up the costs. Worse yet, they will just continue to increase the student fees. It's vulgar and obscene on many levels, yet we all continue to watch and support.

I couldn't hear the announcers where I was watching the game, but weren't there two flags. One for interference and one for off sides? The offside ruling was taken because it was dead ball and forced NIU to kick again?.?.

Dave saves me a lot of time above. With the exception of the talking about spring football.

The mac isn't flourishing now. It's neither alive, nor dead....sort of like the ncaa's version of a zombie. Dambrot and Bowden aren't going anywhere. I"ve mentioned it before, but I'll say it again...the links in the Deadspin article say the same thing. The "Building Process" is so out of control, the only way to sustain it is forcing the general student population to pay excessive student fees financed through student loans and through taxpayer dollars. It's the only answer for schools like Akron and most BCS level schools as well. The "facilities" and everything that word encompasses are mostly completed. Now the real cost is maintaining them. It is going to be a huge challenges for universities, but they did it to themselves and there was never anyone out there even hinting that it might be a mistake.

The lesson for me and the mac right now is the quality of football is very good. I don't care to watch football at a level below the nonBCS D1A teams. High school football does nothing for me, but that's just my opinion. I understand the kids are playing hard, but it just doesn't interest me. What I saw in Akron two Fridays ago was quality football played and coached at a level similar to the tosu/michigan and Auburn/Alabama game. Entertaining for anyone watching.

It's truly insane.

Article My bet is Temple is the tip of the iceberg.

What about when Slowhio State loses?

Slowhio really got out run, out coached and out toughed by a better msu team. Congratulations to Mark Dantonio for solidifying himself as the top coach in the BT with the best team. Congratulations and a fond farewell to the BCS for once again being right about who should be in the title game.

This game was evidence that bcs movement isn't over until all games are played. All conference championships have two good teams. Auburn and tosu had better come ready to play today.

I don't follow off season developments very closely, but he is a name and Ogeron is another name that comes up. Coming from a Mac school he will be a younger version of Grobe. In reality, when your two greatest coaches are Jim Grobe and Peahead Walker, howcould you go wrong?

Oddly enough, this has not impacted their average points per game. That stat remains the same.

Because the endless desire to defend tosu by people from Ohio has reached a mass paranoia level. Just watch cable news tonight instead. You can catch on the War on Christmas stories.

You and I see the world very similarly. I like the ncaa tournament because it feeds my impatience. I like quick resolutions to things and the ncaa tournament provides that escape for me. One game, you go home or keep going.

True. Nothing is perfect.

Actually, MLB, NBA and NHL all have better playoff systems as a team must win a series of games over another team to prove they are better. Nobody can have a bad game and be out of the playoffs.

Happens all the time in the NCAA Basketball Tournament. The mistake people make is believing a tournament decides the best team of a group. That is a mistake for a couple of main reasons. 1. Teams match up differently and since not every team in a tournament plays each other, it is impossible to prove which is better of that group. 2. A tournament rewards being great for a short period and not a greater body of work. See NC State with Valvano. A tournament does not always reward the best team in the country. It rewards the team that was able to make it through a bracket system without losing a game. There is a difference there.

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I actually agreed with everything he said about NIU last year. His main argument was NIU had lost to a horrible Iowa team and didn't deserve a BCS game because of it. In my opinion, that is a true. This year, he has not dumped on NIU because they are undefeated and the deserve to be there. I would agree. NIU deserves to be there this year. This just in. Herbstreit will be on Fox News tonight with Bill O'R to discuss the War on Christmas.

It's all ESPNs fault....

I'd watch it 12 months a year if it was offered. I watch the CFL for crying out loud. I think that between the American obsession with football and gambling degenerates, there is a huge market for football. ESPN televises college spring football practices and they are the most boring displays of football out there.

It has almost gotten to the point of insanity. They are driven insane by what their paranoia tells them is disrespect and aggression towards them. They think that somehow, every conference, especially the SEC and their henchmen at ESPN are leading the charge against them. SEC fans could care less about tosu and the sec is televised on CBS for crying out loud. I've really become aware of it since I moved from Ohio. It is very, very, very strange.... Very strange. They have created a bizarre world for themselves. I guess if they stopped obsessing about tosu though, they would just conjure up something else to be paranoid about...Like the war on Christmas that doesn't exist.

Good post. You are exactly correct in what I put in bold. It gets little attention because the national championships are played at a time when everyone is talking NFL playoffs and BCS bowls. Play it at a time when fans aren't talking about the two biggest football groups, or much at all for that matter, and you may really have something. "Hit'em where they ain't." - Willie Keeler

I wouldn't put coaches in it. They are going to work where they can get a job and in reality, there are very few head coaching jobs at the D1A level so they will work wherever and whenever they can. Where could Bowden get $300K a year? Doing television for maybe a little more. A coordinator at a BCS school would pay at least double $300K. The guy is coaching because he wants to and has a passion for it.