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I've had ideas way worse than that.

I think he's already gone. Gary Hughes?

Eh, it's an interesting idea but I don't know if I'd really care if there was no ultimate championship to root for. Yay, you won the Big 10. Here's your trophy, go home. Then everyone would be arguing ad infinitum: the Big 10 sucks anyway! Who cares if you won it, you'd never beat the other conference champs! And yada yada. I don't see it solving much, just creates a whole bunch of hypothetical arguments that would never cease. Not to mention that's essentially what the system was like before the BCS, and yet that didn't stop people from declaring national champions every year. The BCS just added a more objective and standard way to do that. Perhaps a little more objective than what preceded it, but not even close to objective. If we take goony's position, then they should go back to the way it was. If we take the opposite, then they need to let the championship be decided on the field and not by sports writers and coaches. Either way, they should do away with the BCS. The championship is already mostly decided on the field. Coaches and writers have input, but by and large, the best team gets a chance to win its last game and be crowned champ. You still have to win games, both regular season and bowl, to win a championship. This is true, but for the most part it matters when you loose and how high you were ranked before you lost. A case can be made that LSU is the best team this year, yet shouldn't be in the championship game. But really I guess I'm just a bored as you are as I really couldn't care less; I'm pretty much playing devil's advocate (poorly) in this thread.

Was it the same time the Roberts rumors were flying? If yes, there's your answer.

what would you say if I told you I had evidence to suggest that Theriot does not, in fact, find a way to get on base all that well? Inconceivable!

Eh, it's an interesting idea but I don't know if I'd really care if there was no ultimate championship to root for. Yay, you won the Big 10. Here's your trophy, go home. Then everyone would be arguing ad infinitum: the Big 10 sucks anyway! Who cares if you won it, you'd never beat the other conference champs! And yada yada. I don't see it solving much, just creates a whole bunch of hypothetical arguments that would never cease. Not to mention that's essentially what the system was like before the BCS, and yet that didn't stop people from declaring national champions every year. The BCS just added a more objective and standard way to do that. Perhaps a little more objective than what preceded it, but not even close to objective. If we take goony's position, then they should go back to the way it was. If we take the opposite, then they need to let the championship be decided on the field and not by sports writers and coaches. Either way, they should do away with the BCS.

Haha, ridiculous. What is so ridiculous? They cannot compete year in and year out. Two of those teams (South Florida and UConn) have made great strides despite being in Division 1 only 5 years or so, including both of them being ranked this year. I don't see how they have proven they can't compete year in and year out. Another one (Louisville) has been one of the better college football teams in the nation most of the last few years. And does the Big 10 now have to add ND for basketball as well? It's not like ND can join the Big East for football now that you've disbanded it. I assume you're kicking the other 3 independent teams down to 1-B and making them join conferences as well? Plus, if you're going to kick out teams for poor play, then some of the teams in the other conferences should go down to 1-B as well. I don't know why the Big East teams would get singled out when teams like Indiana, Vanderbilt, Baylor, and Stanford have been as bad or worse over the years. I'm not real serious here. Anyway, I think a case can be made that teams that have been in D1 for five years or less should be sent packing. It's not like they have a history, strong following, or a chance. If they are going to a real playoff I could get behind a system that got rid of the bottom feeders in any of the major conferences.

Haha, ridiculous. What is so ridiculous? They cannot compete year in and year out. How long has South Florida been Division 1? 7 years? And they are already competing this year. Louisville competed the prior 2 years, Cincinnati and UConn were top 25 teams this year, and Rutgers was top 10 last year. So yes, ridiculous. They cannot even compete for a conference title year in and year out. They are mostly below .500 teams with an occasional good season. As soon as Louisville and Rutgers lost their coaches they became also-rans.

Haha, ridiculous. What is so ridiculous? They cannot compete year in and year out.

I'd disband the conference and fold: Pac 10 (10 schools) Big 12 (12 schools) SEC (12 schools) ACC (9 schools)+: Pitt WVU Syracuse Big 10 (11 schools)+: ND To division I-b: UConn Cinc. Rutgers Louisville South Florida Eliminating them from title contention? They have the division 1b title game to compete for. :D In reality it wouldn't be hard for me to be persuaded to move the entire conference to division 1b.

Oh.My.Len!

I'd disband the conference and fold: Pac 10 (10 schools) Big 12 (12 schools) SEC (12 schools) ACC (9 schools)+: Pitt WVU Syracuse Big 10 (11 schools)+: ND To division I-b: UConn Cinc. Rutgers Louisville South Florida

Hawaii and Kansas. They need to quit pretending that teams from the WAC, MAC, C-USA, Mountain West, and Sunbelt are D-I, this isn't basketball. In my opinion they should make D-Ia Big 10 SEC ACC Big 12 Pac 10 D-1b WAC MAC C-USA Mountain West Sun Belt Each division has a 10 team playoff, with the top two teams from each conference getting into the playoffs. The teams in each division only play schools in their division during the regular season and total records count for playoffs, not just conference records. Edit: Oh, and the money generated gets distributed evenly to all institutions in each division. These are places of higher learning after all. I think you are painting with a bit of a broad brush. The Sun Belt, MAC and CUSA (in its current form) can't compete, I agree. But the WAC (Boise, Hawaii, Fresno St) and Mountain West (BYU, Air Force, TCU, Utah and occassionaly Colorado St) conferences have solid, if not upper-level, DI programs. Not one of those schools will ever come close to the BCS championship game. The best that they can hope for is what Hawaii accomplished this year. They have to decide what matters. If it is money, keep the system the same but find a way to more evenly distribute the money. If finding the best team matters most, they need to winnow away the lesser conferences and go to a playoff. I also forgot to mention that ND should be forced to join a conference.

Hawaii and Kansas. They need to quit pretending that teams from the WAC, MAC, C-USA, Mountain West, and Sunbelt are D-I, this isn't basketball. In my opinion they should make D-Ia Big 10 SEC ACC Big 12 Pac 10 D-1b WAC MAC C-USA Mountain West Sun Belt Each division has a 10 team playoff, with the top two teams from each conference getting into the playoffs. The teams in each division only play schools in their division during the regular season and total records count for playoffs, not just conference records. Edit: Oh, and the money generated gets distributed evenly to all institutions in each division. These are places of higher learning after all.

I think Romney wins. Fox News is so far up his ass it is pitiful. I've been watching a lot of Fox News to get an idea of who the behind the scene money wants to win and it clearly is Mit. They did the same sort of thing with W 7 years ago. A Romney win is good for liberals because he has little chance of winning the general, even against Hillary.

I'm pulling for an upset of sorts. Obama Edwards Clintion

Why can't MLB get involved in drafting players from Japan? What I mean is why can't a team do the research and draft a guy like Darvish like they do for the amateur draft? Also, why don't they have a draft for non-North American players. Why should the Mets, Yankees, and Red Sox get to gobble up all the superior Caribbean players?

Forced out..same thing. It's tough to say he was forced out when the University has offered him an Associate AD position. I think he saw that the game was passing him by. No Game for Old Men.

Hail to the Victors!

Well, he split his time between AA and AAA last year and hit a combined .325, 14 HRs, 40 doubles, slugged .505, and was selected Dodgers' Minor League Player of the Year. Sure sounds like he has the potential to be a very good major league SS. As for Crede being garbage, the Dodgers are rumored to be thinking about Rolen (expensive, injured garbage). Also, getting anything out of Crede would be worth ditching Pierre (plus $15 million) and the other $21.5 million owed to him. a sub 850 OPS in Vegas is pathetic. These Park Factors are probably pretty crappy (as all park factors are), but still thought I should post them. http://www.baseballthinkfactory.org/files/oracle/discussion/minor_league_park_factors_2006/ you dont need to post them. everyone (should) know this Park factors are right up there with wins for a pitcher in metric importance. Outside of a few exceptions the numbers mean nothing. Park factor is a term people use when they want to appear to know something that others don't. http://www.baseballthinkfactory.org/btf/scholars/furtado/articles/usingpf.htm

Odd how a thread can grow two pages in a half an hour to no posts in five days. Crazy stuff can happen I'm still waiting with baited breath to see what the "Orioles insiders" have to say...

That's a great article. It prefectly sums up my opinion.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3168534 I wonder if he'll hire the same team OJ put together to find the perps. responsible for his wife's murder?

My memory is pretty bad so I don't know about ranking this team, but I will say this; I'm very optimistic that they will win the division again and I think they have a decent shot a making it to the World Series. The NL is pretty weak. Edit: The bolded part is probably not a good sign. :wink:

Maybe so, but I'm betting they beat LSU.