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This is from CollegeFootballNews.com. I personally think it's an outstanding take on college football. Less than two months and counting....
We Believe...
...the college football season should NOT start before September 1.
...there's no group of eggheads more hypocritical and more full of more hooey than the NCAA and the Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics. From the president emeritus of Notre Dame and commission co-chairman Rev. Theodore Hesburgh referring to college sports, "We're not in the entertainment business, nor are we a minor league for professional sports." This is coming from someone from NOTRE DAME (even though Hersburgh was before the selling out and has always been over-the-top pro-academics.) You know, the school that is college football for NBC (the Notre Dame Broadcasting Network) and has been a minor league team for the NFL for years. You know what, THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT. ND graduates players and is much, much more than just a football school, so why shouldn't they make as much money as possible? An who is the NCAA to tell individual institutions how to run their show? The commission wants to forbid schools from playing in the post-season if they didn't graduate at least half the players who play in that sport, which is an extremely convenient stance to take for someone who represents Notre Dame.
...(cont.) that graduation rates should have absolutely nothing to do with college athletics and college football. Let it be a major like other non-academic pursuits like art, dance or music and let's cut the pretense that college football is anything but a cash cow for the rest of the athletic department and a great PR front for the university. Academics are important, but graduation rates and academic restrictions should be each school's cross to bear. If a school wants to compromise their academic integrity for football, let them. That just makes the Notre Dames, Northwesterns, Stanfords and Michigans look that much better.
...(cont.) the NCAA in it's current form will be obsolete within the next 20 years.
...Friday night college football is just fine for some schools, but not for the the "elite" schools. Let the Mountain West, WAC, MAC and Sun Belt schools get some more publicity and air time. SEC, Big XII and Big Ten schools should stick to Saturday afternoons.
...there aren't too many bowl games. If you don't like them, don't watch. No one's putting a gun to your head.
...if you put a 6'8" basketball player with a 35+" vertical at wide receiver, you'd be unstoppable inside the 10-yard line if you isolated him on one side and threw up a jump ball. Our ideal basketball/receiver? A in-his-prime Dominique Wilkins.
...as time goes on, the college football world will realize how amazing Oklahoma's national title run was last season.
...it was the Sooner defense and not the offense that won them the national title. Josh Heupel was very, very good, but he didn't win them the title.
...there's a new group of superstar Butch Davis-like coaches about to emerge in college football. Dirk Koetter of Arizona State, Walt Harris of Pittsburgh, Mark Richt of Georgia, Gary Pinkel of Missouri, Ralph Friedgen of Maryland, Jim Tressel of Ohio State and Rich Rodruigez of West Virginia were just a few of the new outstanding hires. We consider Bob Stoops, Rick Neuheisel, George O'Leary and Bob Pruett stars already.
...in the next ten years you'll see a new Division-I class with 80 or so teams.
...college football needs power teams to be strong for tradition, but relatively new blood in the mix (like Virginia Tech and Oregon State) to keep the sport rolling.
...within 20 years, you'll see a massive class action suit by college football players against the NCAA for lost wages. The players will be right.
...the five best uniforms in college football are (in no particular order): USC, Auburn, Washington, Notre Dame and UCLA.
...college football players should be allowed to have agents and do endorsement deals while in college.
...the worst uniforms in college football are (in no particular order): Oregon (they look like space age pea pods), Miami, Fl (they look like an XFL team), Oklahoma State (ditch the orange pants with the orange jerseys), Wyoming (the brown and yellow just don't look attractive) and Washington State (we don't dig the all red with the stripe down the side.)
...the college football world doesn't give enough credit to the smaller schools and talent. The only people that do are NFL scouts.
...we're still against a playoff system unless they come up with some sort of Final Four format. Taking the BCS top four teams wouldn't be too much of a hindrance. Last year, Oklahoma vs. Washington and Florida State vs. Miami would've played in bowl games, then the BCS final would be a College Football Super Bowl. In any event, keep the bowls.
...the BCS is actually a pretty good idea, but the powers-that-be have screwed it up. The criteria needs to be more easily definable. Miami fans never really understood the whole strength of schedule factor last year.
...college football players should be able to leave school at any time for the NFL.
...it'd be cool to have more bowls in cold weather. How about Buffalo or Green Bay?
...Chris Weinke was a better college football player than he'll ever get credit for.
...the SEC is great, but it's not the be-all-end-all conference SEC fans would have you believe. The Big XII, Big Ten and Pac 10 are just as storied and have always had just as much talent.
...Classic Sports Network should never give the final score BEFORE the game starts (that goes for all sports.)
...that no conference championship games should be rematches of regular season games. This goes for bowl games too.
...it's a down year in overall college football talent. Even so, college football is inherently set up so it'll never be as dead as college basketball is now.
...the Rose Bowl must be Big Ten vs. Pac 10. Hold the national title somewhere else.
...this will be one of the most fun and competitive college football seasons in recent history and we can't wait for it to start. Then we'll all be confused by the BCS.
We Believe...
...the college football season should NOT start before September 1.
...there's no group of eggheads more hypocritical and more full of more hooey than the NCAA and the Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics. From the president emeritus of Notre Dame and commission co-chairman Rev. Theodore Hesburgh referring to college sports, "We're not in the entertainment business, nor are we a minor league for professional sports." This is coming from someone from NOTRE DAME (even though Hersburgh was before the selling out and has always been over-the-top pro-academics.) You know, the school that is college football for NBC (the Notre Dame Broadcasting Network) and has been a minor league team for the NFL for years. You know what, THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT. ND graduates players and is much, much more than just a football school, so why shouldn't they make as much money as possible? An who is the NCAA to tell individual institutions how to run their show? The commission wants to forbid schools from playing in the post-season if they didn't graduate at least half the players who play in that sport, which is an extremely convenient stance to take for someone who represents Notre Dame.
...(cont.) that graduation rates should have absolutely nothing to do with college athletics and college football. Let it be a major like other non-academic pursuits like art, dance or music and let's cut the pretense that college football is anything but a cash cow for the rest of the athletic department and a great PR front for the university. Academics are important, but graduation rates and academic restrictions should be each school's cross to bear. If a school wants to compromise their academic integrity for football, let them. That just makes the Notre Dames, Northwesterns, Stanfords and Michigans look that much better.
...(cont.) the NCAA in it's current form will be obsolete within the next 20 years.
...Friday night college football is just fine for some schools, but not for the the "elite" schools. Let the Mountain West, WAC, MAC and Sun Belt schools get some more publicity and air time. SEC, Big XII and Big Ten schools should stick to Saturday afternoons.
...there aren't too many bowl games. If you don't like them, don't watch. No one's putting a gun to your head.
...if you put a 6'8" basketball player with a 35+" vertical at wide receiver, you'd be unstoppable inside the 10-yard line if you isolated him on one side and threw up a jump ball. Our ideal basketball/receiver? A in-his-prime Dominique Wilkins.
...as time goes on, the college football world will realize how amazing Oklahoma's national title run was last season.
...it was the Sooner defense and not the offense that won them the national title. Josh Heupel was very, very good, but he didn't win them the title.
...there's a new group of superstar Butch Davis-like coaches about to emerge in college football. Dirk Koetter of Arizona State, Walt Harris of Pittsburgh, Mark Richt of Georgia, Gary Pinkel of Missouri, Ralph Friedgen of Maryland, Jim Tressel of Ohio State and Rich Rodruigez of West Virginia were just a few of the new outstanding hires. We consider Bob Stoops, Rick Neuheisel, George O'Leary and Bob Pruett stars already.
...in the next ten years you'll see a new Division-I class with 80 or so teams.
...college football needs power teams to be strong for tradition, but relatively new blood in the mix (like Virginia Tech and Oregon State) to keep the sport rolling.
...within 20 years, you'll see a massive class action suit by college football players against the NCAA for lost wages. The players will be right.
...the five best uniforms in college football are (in no particular order): USC, Auburn, Washington, Notre Dame and UCLA.
...college football players should be allowed to have agents and do endorsement deals while in college.
...the worst uniforms in college football are (in no particular order): Oregon (they look like space age pea pods), Miami, Fl (they look like an XFL team), Oklahoma State (ditch the orange pants with the orange jerseys), Wyoming (the brown and yellow just don't look attractive) and Washington State (we don't dig the all red with the stripe down the side.)
...the college football world doesn't give enough credit to the smaller schools and talent. The only people that do are NFL scouts.
...we're still against a playoff system unless they come up with some sort of Final Four format. Taking the BCS top four teams wouldn't be too much of a hindrance. Last year, Oklahoma vs. Washington and Florida State vs. Miami would've played in bowl games, then the BCS final would be a College Football Super Bowl. In any event, keep the bowls.
...the BCS is actually a pretty good idea, but the powers-that-be have screwed it up. The criteria needs to be more easily definable. Miami fans never really understood the whole strength of schedule factor last year.
...college football players should be able to leave school at any time for the NFL.
...it'd be cool to have more bowls in cold weather. How about Buffalo or Green Bay?
...Chris Weinke was a better college football player than he'll ever get credit for.
...the SEC is great, but it's not the be-all-end-all conference SEC fans would have you believe. The Big XII, Big Ten and Pac 10 are just as storied and have always had just as much talent.
...Classic Sports Network should never give the final score BEFORE the game starts (that goes for all sports.)
...that no conference championship games should be rematches of regular season games. This goes for bowl games too.
...it's a down year in overall college football talent. Even so, college football is inherently set up so it'll never be as dead as college basketball is now.
...the Rose Bowl must be Big Ten vs. Pac 10. Hold the national title somewhere else.
...this will be one of the most fun and competitive college football seasons in recent history and we can't wait for it to start. Then we'll all be confused by the BCS.
