College Basketball Blog

There's a human named Yoni Cohen who has what he calls "College Basketball Blog". I checked it out (because I love college basketball) and it is tremendous. If you want to keep up with college basketball there is a bunch of information there for you, so go at it.

I forget....

....why did I think the Packers were back? They're not back. Where are they?

You know, them losing just gives me another opportunity to proclaim them back at a later date...watch for it.

I know everyone who doesn't play fantasy football hates it, but can I just say that my fantasy team would have turned out better had I put the names of every NFL player on separate pieces of paper and glued them to the wall and threw 12 darts and picked the names the darts hit.

Bucks point guard TJ Ford isn't healing from his spinal injury. He may be gone forever. Their one high (top ten) draft pick of the last 10 years, and he gets death injured midway through his first season. Kill me now.

The Pack is Back

My non-Packer friends hate this phrase, and I don't know why. The Pack always is, in point of fact, back. They come back every year. Football comes back every year.

It doesn't help that the Packers are always good, and that when they win games, as they often do, their fans always refer to them as back. They are in a constant process of leaving and coming back. Such is sports. That we've come up with a handy phrase to refer to this is not a bad thing. The Pack is Back. Especially when they dominate the defending conference champion in their own stadium. Ha, ha.

Ranger reliever Frankie Francisco is going to be deported after whipping a chair at a guy and hitting his wife instead. For some reason, I find this funny. How can people not control themselves? Put that in the ledger, on the side that says, "Baseball players are dumb." More on that someday, but what really is funny is the fact that this evil dude berated Francisco into attacking him, and his wife gets a broken nose out of it. The moral of the story is once again: Do not marry jerks.

LSU and How to Fix the BCS

LSU is not the reigning National Champion, people. Everytime I hear that, it reminds me that college football is the only sport in the world without a real champion. There is a season ending poll, and a BCS championship whose participants are chosen by computer, but no real champion. If anything, USC was the national champion last year because they won the poll that mattered -- the poll that wasn't attached to the BCS. And I don't even like USC.

The BCS would be so easy to fix -- you could have the current system AND an 8-team National Playoff pathetically easy. Here's how to do it:

The 5 Power Conferences (the BCS conferences minus the Big East, which stinks w/o Miami) each get an automatic bid to the group of 8, for each conference champion. This will do 2 things: It will eliminate games in early September having any bearing on the National Championship, and it will keep hope alive for teams that schedule tough and lose 2 non-conference games.

The 3 remaining slots would be filled by the top 3 at-large teams, either decided by the current BCS computer rankings, or by a committee like for the Men's Basketball Tournament. The 8 teams would then be seeded by computer or committee ranking and put into quarterfinals at the home teams' stadiums. The quarterfinals would be played a week or two after the season ends, with the semifinals a week after that. The Chamionship game could be played on Jan 1st if you want it old school, or Jan. 2 if you want a separate special night. The other, totally meaningless Bowls would be played as normal, with the quarterfinal losers pairing off into 2 BCS bowls and playing each other and the semifinal losers playing in the National 3rd Place Game, also a BCS bowl.

You see, everything would stay exactly the same, except you have a proper National Champion and 6 extra post-season moneymaking games. Who would be against this? Also, teams wouldn't schedule all wussy teams in non-conference because there would be no reason to. Conference games would be the ones that really matter, and if they didn't win their conference, they would need schedule strength to get one of the highly competitive at-large bids.

The one downside I see is 4 elite programs getting to play 3 post-season games, taxing those poor kids. Oh, who am I kidding? Those "poor kids" won the athletic lottery. They will have every chance to be successful in life. Don't they owe America 2 extra games once in a while? We'd do it for their kid, if we had the talent. Plus, don't these kids WANT a real National Championship? Don't they WANT adulation and their name in lights as much as possible? Cry no tears for the players, kemosabe. If they didn't want to play college football, they shouldn't be playing college football.

Hey, you and I just wasted some time, because this will never happen. But it's fun to dream...

Grand Opening -- 9/10/04

Hey Sports Fanz,

You ready 4 sum football? You got game?

Ok, I can't do this, not even for a whole line. This is the Sports Ignorant Blog. I made this blog at virtual gunpoint after realizing this sports stuff didn't fit in on my main blog, Epth Nation Blog.

I got a big sports mind, so watch out.