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Frank Deford - BCS Game
Posted on 1/5/12 at 2:50 am
Posted on 1/5/12 at 2:50 am
I apologize if this has already been posted:
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While I might agree that the BCS doesn't always get it correct, it's pretty clear that the two best teams this year ARE Bama and LSU. Sorry, Frank, you're incorrect this time.
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While I might agree that the BCS doesn't always get it correct, it's pretty clear that the two best teams this year ARE Bama and LSU. Sorry, Frank, you're incorrect this time.
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Posted on 1/5/12 at 5:52 am to cphill
He really mailed that one in - is this what qualifies as a column these days? I know the guy's got gravitas oozing out of his *ss, but that was weak.
There's ample room for some valid arguments against the BCS. He should have made them. Instead he rambled on for a few short paragraphs and hit send.
Weak.
There's ample room for some valid arguments against the BCS. He should have made them. Instead he rambled on for a few short paragraphs and hit send.
Weak.
Posted on 1/5/12 at 5:55 am to cphill
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-- because the teams have been appointed to show up without earning the right to challenge for the title.
The frick? 13-0, with our schedule, is not "earning the right"?
Posted on 1/5/12 at 5:59 am to Y.A. Tittle
With that pencil mustache, Deford looks like that dude that ties a damsel in distress to the railroad tracks. Oh, and this article is pandering and it's a bad take.
Posted on 1/5/12 at 7:01 am to cphill
He's incorrect most times these days. He's fallen into the "Get off my lawn!"
Posted on 1/5/12 at 7:17 am to cphill
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Frank Deford
This dude looks like either a cartoon villian or an extra on the Munsters...I love watching him on Real Sports and he insists on wearing the starched shirts and 3 piece suits while walking around a jr. high football field somewhere in June sweating his arse off.
Posted on 1/5/12 at 7:21 am to slinger1317
Y'all are a sensitive bunch - he didn't say that any team deserved to be there over LSU - all he is saying is that who can say what teams "deserve" it without a playoff?
It's not an anti-LSU article, it's an anti-BCS article. I know tension is getting high later in the week, but relax.
It's not an anti-LSU article, it's an anti-BCS article. I know tension is getting high later in the week, but relax.
Posted on 1/5/12 at 7:59 am to NaturalBeam
quote:This is just showing off.
Remember Diogenes -- the guy who browsed around with a lantern looking for just one honest man? Well, I am the Diogenes of the BCS, for armed with a bullhorn and a searchlight, I've traveled this great land of ours, desperately hoping to find just a single fan of the BCS.
Also, he wrote the novel "Everybody's All-American".
Posted on 1/5/12 at 8:03 am to oilfieldtiger
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Remember Diogenes -- the guy who browsed around with a lantern looking for just one honest man? Well, I am the Diogenes of the BCS, for armed with a bullhorn and a searchlight, I've traveled this great land of ours, desperately hoping to find just a single fan of the BCS
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obviously he did not make it to T-Town this year
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Remember Diogenes -- the guy who browsed around with a lantern looking for just one honest man? Well, I am the Diogenes of the BCS, for armed with a bullhorn and a searchlight, I've traveled this great land of ours, desperately hoping to find just a single fan of the BCS
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obviously he did not make it to T-Town this year
Posted on 1/5/12 at 8:52 am to NaturalBeam
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It's not an anti-LSU article, it's an anti-BCS article. I know tension is getting high later in the week, but relax.
Read to me like it was a pro play-off article as well.
Posted on 1/5/12 at 8:52 am to CSATiger
Note to Frank Deford...if you do nto care about the BCS as you claim, then why are you wasting time writing about it?
Posted on 1/5/12 at 8:55 am to CSATiger
I don't remember Diogenes.
Not everyone's as old as you, Frank.
Not everyone's as old as you, Frank.
Posted on 1/5/12 at 8:57 am to cphill
Stopped reading at "remember Diogenes?" Two is about my limit for references to antiquity in pretentious sports articles.
Posted on 1/5/12 at 9:14 am to Vol Fan in the Bayou
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Read to me like it was a pro play-off article as well.
Oh, I agree. I just thought the line about BOTH TEAMS getting there "without earning the right" was a bit ridiculous when applied to the present scenario and the article was a bit lazily conceived, at best.
I don't think it was meant as a slam on LSU, though.
Posted on 1/6/12 at 12:48 pm to Y.A. Tittle
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Still, we Americans continue, lobotomized, to accept the BCS as legitimate
uhh, pretty sure that's not the case as everyone on here refers to it as the MNC
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I hope you enjoy watching the arranged marriage that the BCS is putting on Tuesday.
Is the game Tuesday?
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the teams have been appointed to show up without earning the right to challenge for the title
So going undefeated, beating two conference champions that have beaten two other conference champions, winning by double digits in all games but one, winning your conference championship game by 32, having the highest points per game average in the toughest defensive conference, and LSU hasn't "earned the right" Geezsh
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Posted on 1/6/12 at 12:49 pm to cphill
guy's got to be nearly 90 years old.
Posted on 1/6/12 at 12:54 pm to Jim Rockford
Ol' Frank was just being PC. That's what he gets for hangin' out with them NPR guys.
Posted on 1/6/12 at 12:55 pm to TheLoupGarou
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That's what he gets for hangin' out with them NPR guys.
I think I adamantly disagree with 98% of his little rants on Wednesday mornings. The other 2% I'm indifferent about or just disagree a little bit.
Posted on 1/6/12 at 12:56 pm to oilfieldtiger
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I've traveled this great land of ours, desperately hoping to find just a single fan of the BCS.
Here's one.
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Posted on 1/6/12 at 12:57 pm to colorchangintiger
I took the piece as more whimsical than weak. There are certainly much better pro-playoff arguments, but they have been made so many times. why make them again? I am extremely pro-playoff and I like to point out that we already have a playoff, just a bad one. It is a one game, two team playoff with the participants selected by about as bizarre and unaccountable a selection committee as could be imagined. LSU's selection happened to be obvious this year, while Bama's was much less so.
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