Texas #1 in BCS.......WTF???

[DrDetroit]

Yes, all this is why you got run from the CFB forum long ago. The only question is who ran you?

Ran?? Uh, okay. I rarely post here, dumbfuck.

[Left Seater]

And you're right, at least I wasn't swimming/diving

Sucks for you then. I have never understood why people want to make fun of swimmers. It is about the only sport where you spend the practice and meet time with girls. Futher swim meets tend to take place over multiple days and you get hotel time with girls. Plus, most of the cheerleaders at my school were swimmers and the eye candy was amazing.

Had football not paid for college swimming likely would have.

[DrDetroit]

How can you claim something is impractical, then claim that it WOULD work? Buehller? Anyone? Pick one side or the other! Impractical means that something is basically not workable. I don't think you even have a firm grasp on where you stand on this issue.

Sorry, but your inability to get it is not my problem. I've been very clear. However, you chose to bastardize my comments.

I was very clear that a playoff would work if the only objective was to crown a true national champion and eliminate the typical discussions of such. Hence, when I then asserted that a playoff was impractical, it should have been clear to any reasonable and honest reader that I was referring to the "not practical" part of impractical. Mgo, you just said it yourself, "basically not workable." You're correct, impractical does mean that...in addition to not practical. Thanks for agreeing with me that I was properly using the word.

I was also very clear about the fact that I don't agree that the goal of determining a true national champion outwieghs other considerations, i.e., that these are student-athletes, students first.

[Killian]

You only addressed it because I brought it up a second time. After I had to bring it up again, you then said you did not know. To me, that was ducking it the first time. So, by your definition, consider "your ass fucking run".

[indyfrisco]

mischaracterizing what I have posted.

Laughing hard over here, man. If someone can get you to post that sentiment yet again in this thread, they'll have my racks.

And here's your winner...

How can you claim something is impractical, then claim that it WOULD work? Buehller? Anyone? Pick one side or the other! Impractical means that something is basically not workable. I don't think you even have a firm grasp on where you stand on this issue.

Sorry, but your inability to get it is not my problem. I've been very clear. However, you chose to bastardize my comments.

[DrDetroit]

You only addressed it because I brought it up a second time. After I had to bring it up again, you then said you did not know. To me, that was ducking it the first time. So, by your definition, consider "your ass fucking run".

No, I didn't duck it the first time. I simply didn't see it. A short post among longer ones do get passed over. An honest oversight.

[Terry in Crapchester]

You are correct about Boston College. They weren't even rumored to go to the ACC at the beginning of the realignment talk. There was more talk of Syracuse going than BC.

Not entirely true. IIRC, here's a rough chronology of the ACC expansion efforts and how they impacted the Big East:

1. At the behest of Florida State, ACC begins consideration of expansion to 12 members. Schools originally targeted for expansion are Miami, Syracuse and Boston College.
2. Va Tech catches word that the ACC is considering expansion that does not include them. They begin to put out word that they would like to join the ACC.
3. ACC meets to consider expansion by inviting Miami, Syracuse and BC. No vote is taken, but North Carolina and Duke express concerns about expansion (note that any expansion would require 7 of 9 yes votes from existing conference members).
4. The Virginia Legislature, fearful that this expansion would destroy the Big East and leave Va Tech homeless, and taking into consideration likely no votes from Duke and North Carolina, begins to pressure UVa's Board of Trustees to oppose any expansion plans which do not include Va Tech.
5. UVa announces it will oppose any expansion plans which do not include Va Tech (under pressure from Virginia legislature).
6. ACC begins to consider possibility of expansion including Va Tech.
7. ACC meets re: expansion, can only agree on adding Miami and Va Tech. Motion passes by bare minimum of 7-2, Duke and North Carolina voting no and UVa voting yes.
8. Va Tech accepts ACC's offer, becomes 10th ACC member.
9. Miami accepts ACC's offer, becomes 11th ACC member.
10. Remaining Big East schools, including ACC spurnees Syracuse and BC, meet and agree to keep the conference together. Among proposals discussed and passed: longer waiting period to leave conference (two years vice one previously) and higher buyout for leaving conference ($5 million vice $1 million previously). UConn agrees to become a football member of the Big East one year earlier than originally planned. Big East begins targeting schools for expansion in 2005, when minimum membership for NCAA conference certification increases from six to eight teams; Louisville and Cincinnati are identified immediately.
11. ACC petitions NCAA for permission to hold a football playoff with 11 conference members.
12. ND and ACC begin discussions about ND joining the ACC in a manner similar to its membership with the Big East, with an eye toward ND becoming a football member of the ACC a decade or so down the road.
13. NCAA rejects ACC's petition to hold a football playoff with 11 conference members for football.
14. Talks between ND and the ACC die; imho, the NCAA's rejection of the ACC's petition was the sole lynchpin for this (the ACC wanted a playoff immediately and ND wasn't willing to commit to joining the ACC in football immediately).
15. BC, despite earlier pledging to help keep the Big East alive, enters talks with the ACC about becoming the 12th ACC member. The ACC votes to give BC membership, and this time, the vote is unanimous (incidentally, I'd note that there have been rumors on the internets that the ACC's divisional alignment was devised during its talks with ND, with ND in BC's position, not sure if that's true).
16. Big East decides on adding South Florida, in addition to Louisville and Cincinnati, to boost its membership to eight.