Quote Originally Posted by Boom_Boom:
let me ask you a question jimmy.
Just thinking outside the box here, so stay with me.
If the Green Bay Packers played the Carolina Panthers 16 times last season and then played them 3 times in the playoffs and then again in the super bowl...... Would you have considered them a team not
" worthy " because of the competition they played/
What about Alabama 2 years ago when they won the NC. Lets say they played Boise S.T schedule that year. Would you have considered them a team not
" worthy " because of the level of competition they played?
My point is
If Boise would have proven to us over the years that they are a team that doesn't deserve our respect...Guess what? They would have lost all the games they played on the big stage. But guess what? The
DID WIN ALL OF THOSE GAMESIt's time for you to respect that program.
I dont care who you are.... the points I just brought up. ARE DEAD ON.
We are comingling many issues that have no bearing on the Boise/Georgia game, but here goes.
I don't think the NFL comparison is relevant because there is not much seperation between the top NFL teams and the bottom NFL teams. You almost never see a team go undefeated, and you almost never see a team go winless. And even in the most extreme cases a 20-point spread is about the highest line you'll ever see in the NFL, where in college 30-40 point spreads are routine. In short, there is a much bigger seperation between the haves and the have nots in college football.
Secondly there is a playoff system in the NFL so that pretty much weeds out the pretenders.
As to your second point, no Bama should not have played for a national championship if they had played Boise's schedule.
Playing for a national championship, a BCS bowl or even a top 10 ranking is something that needs to be earned, and it is not earned by playing a 1 or 2 game season. In my opinion if Bosie wants top 10 consideration, they would need to play and win 3-4 non-conference road games against legitimate BCS conference teams like the teams from BSC conferences have to do. Then they would have a legitimate resume to be considered for a top 10 ranking and a national championship.
During the same period of time that Boise beat the Oregon schools twice, Oklahoma, and VT, Georgia beat the following teams:
Georgia Tech (4 times)
Auburn (3 times)
South Carolina (2 times)
Mississippi (2 times)
Colorado
Virginia Tech
Oklahoma State
Alabama
Florida
Arkansas
Arizona State
Texas A&M
Tennessee
but yet Boise is great, and Georgia is mediocre?
Nobody said Georgia or Alabama were worthy of playing for a national championship after they beat Virginia Tech. But after Boise got a lucky win against a VT team that was clearly better than them, Boise is worthy of playing for a national championship? That is beyond absurd.
Moreover, rewarding teams for playing nobody just encourages all teams in the country to schedule as many weaklings as they can cram on their schedule. After all, what incentive would anyone have to play a good team. They can just pull a "Boise," and have smooth sailing right into the national championship game.
Rewarding teams who take the easiest possible path with a shot at the national championship would make a complete mockery of college football. Teams that play for national championships should have national championship worthy resumes, not a resume of beating the most pathetic teams in the country. Yes, I can see the day when Troy is playing Ball State for a national championship.
Morevover, just because I think Boise has virtually no shot of of covering the spread against the Dawgs in the Georgia Dome doesn't mean I'm "disrespecting" them in any way.
On Covers you can bet against any team in the country without repercussions, but the minute someone fades Boise, whoa, they are disrespecting them. That's utter nonsense!!! That is particularly so with me, because I have mad respect for Boise. I touted them heavily on Covers for years, and have made a ton of money betting on them. Why would I disrespect a covering machine like Boise? That makes no sense.
Just because I don't think Boise is, or ever has been a top 10 team (except maybe the 2007 season when they beat Oklahoma), or that I think Boise will lose to a team with superior talent doesn't make me a hater. It makes me a realist, and a gambler on the right side of a wager.
I heart Boise, but I'm betting against them in this game because they are not going to win.