The Son of the Bogus and Un-American BCS….The Bogus “Plus-One”
Before we get to the “Debacle in the Desert” (the 1-5 Arizona Wildcats blowout of Rick Neuheisel’s Bruins) last night in Tucson we first must address what we call the….
Son of the Bogus and Un-American BCS
…otherwise called the…
“Plus-One”
…which was written about this morning by Denver Post columnist John Henderson:
A Plus-One is best way to crown national champion, Denver Post
“So I’m minding my own business in a Seattle sports bar Saturday night, and the guy next to me finds out I’m a college football writer. I could’ve predicted the next question as if I passed a homeless man with a cup.
“When are we getting a playoff?”
The week before, I’m in a bar near Stanford and a group of Cardinal fans find out I’m a college football writer. (You’ve heard of chick magnets? Sportswriters are guy magnets, unfortunately.) Guess what they asked.
“When are we getting a playoff?”
Imagine how many fans have asked that question this week since the first BCS standings came out Sunday. The list includes 10 unbeaten teams at the halfway point, the most this late in the year since the BCS began in 1998.
Never has there been a greater need for a Plus-One.”
Yes, John Henderson is hearing the American People right when they as REAL Americans are asking the obvious question that EVERY REAL American would ask when it comes to the Bogus and Un-American BCS…
“When are we getting a playoff?”
….BUT John…come one now…A “Plus One” is nothing more than leaving the Sorry Bastards that don’t give a Damn about the universities, teams, coaches, student-athletes and fans in charge of the pitiful postseason in college football with the most Un-American thing going on in America today…
The Bogus BCS.
The most ridiculous thing that John Henderson writes about in his column though is when he claims that a 16-Team Playoff would somehow make some of the regular season college football games unimportant when the EXACT OPPOSITE is true because a 16-Team Playoff would again make Conference Titles…
Very Damn Important
…because they would guarantee one’s entry into the Postseason Playoff and the other games conference and non-conference games would be EVEN MORE important because if a team doesn’t play well in each of those games the team would have NO CHANCE to play for a National Title by getting into the Postseason Tournament (And playing in a Conference Championship Game would not even guarantee the losing teams in those championship games a spot in the Postseason Tournament because the competition for the “At-Large” selections beyond the Conference Champions is going to be very competitive).
Probably the most nonsensical argument though is that a Postseason Playoff in College Football would somehow reduce the importance, the viewing and attendance of, and thus the TV rights fees for regular season games which may be the STUPIDEST thing we have EVER heard or read in our lives because if that was true then the other directly comparable sport to college football that has a Postseason Playoff would have low regular season ratings as well….right?
Uhhhh,, No Way in Hell.
That only comparable sport to college football that has a Postseason Playoff to determine its champion you ask?
The NFL.
(Please, don’t be so stupid to compare college football to college basketball and their regular and postseasons because they are not the same sports and Americans do not watch ANY level of basketball anywhere near the numbers they watch football on ALL levels which makes the people that compare college football and basketball Very Stupid indeed)
If the propaganda repeaters in the news media that get their talking points from the PR Hacks that run the Bogus and Un-American BCS are right that the college football regular season would somehow be diminished if college football had a Postseason Playoff then that could be proven beyond the shadow of a doubt if the NFL also was experiencing a drop-off in the ratings of the regular season ratings…..right?
No Way in Hell!
NFL Games Rank as 13 of 15 Most-Watched Shows This Fall, Robert Seidman, TV by the Numbers
Program Viewers
1. CBS’ Two and a Half Men (Season Premiere), 9/19 28.7 million
2. FOX Sunday National (mostly Cowboys-Patriots), 10/16 28.4 million
3. NBC Thursday Night Kickoff Game (Saints-Packers), 9/8 27.1 million
4. FOX Sunday National (mostly Giants-Redskins), 9/11 25.8 million
5. NBC Sunday Night Football (Cowboys-Jets), 9/11 25.8 million
6. FOX Sunday National (mostly Packers-Bears), 9/25 24.0 million
7. NBC Sunday Night Football (Eagles-Falcons),9/18 23.4 million
8. FOX Sunday Single (mostly Lions-Cowboys), 10/2 23.3 million
9. CBS Sunday National (mostly Packers-Broncos), 10/2 23.0 million
10. CBS Sunday National (mostly Chargers-Patriots), 9/18 22.7 million
11. CBS Sunday National (mostly Jets-Patriots), 10/9 22.6 million
12. FOX Sunday Single (mostly Chi-N.O. & Dall.-S.F.), 9/18 22.5 million
13. NBC Sunday Night Football (Packers-Falcons), 10/9 22.0 million
14. CBS’ Two and a Half Men, 9/26 20.5 million
15. NBC Sunday Night Football (Steelers-Colts), 9/25 20.4 million
Yes, people in the news media can now quit writing the Complete BS that has been fed to them by the BCS PR Hacks about a Postseason Playoff in college football somehow diminishing the college football regular season which is Complete and Total BS just picked from the air to prop up the Bogus and Un-American BCS…AND….
IN FACT
….a few of us here at Coaches Hot Seat have spoken on multiple occasions with TV network honchos in both Los Angeles and New York over the past few years about what kind of impact that a Postseason Playoff in college football would have on the sport overall, on the college football regular season and how much more money would be generated for intercollegiate athletics with a Postseason Playoff in college football and the answers have ALWAYS been: (College Presidents that have to run big universities with big budgets should pay very close attention here):
1. A Postseason Playoff in college football would have an incredibly positive impact on college football and raise the level of the sport in the mind of American sports fans up to almost the level of the NFL for BOTH the college football regular AND postseason.
2. A Postseason Playoff in college football would make the college football regular season MORE important because a playoff that included conference champions from every conference AND “At Large” teams would REALLY make EVERY game important instead of just a few games that focus on only two teams that might make it a title game 30 plus days after the end of college football regular season.
3. A Postseason Playoff in college football would generate HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS more than the current postseason in college football and would INCREASE the value of college football regular season because sports fans, not just football fans, but sports fans that tune into the NFL each week because they love the game of football would tune-in to watch college football in increasing numbers as they saw that their local and regional teams would have legitimate shots to play in a Postseason Playoff to determine the National Champion all the way until the end of the regular season and then throughout what would be a legitimate Postseason Tournament (as opposed to the Bogus and Un-American BCS that the majority of Americans see as nothing but a BIG Fraud that does not crown a real champion).
The above is straight from THREE Network TV honchos and is something that they could not say in public and sometimes even in private right now because of current contracts they are now operating under but not only is there NO DOUBT that college football would be watched by a much bigger group of the American public if there was a Postseason Playoff but a Postseason Playoff would generate Billions of Dollars more over the next decade for intercollegiate athletics and American universities and colleges than the Bogus and Un-American BCS and it would ENHANCE the college football regular season not diminish it as is often repeated by the propaganda types in the media that are fed BS by the BCS PR Hacks.
By the way just to shut-up the people in the news media forever about a Postseason Playoff in college football somehow diminishing the college football regular season we will compare the TV ratings of college football’s biggest Saturday this fall in the 2011 football season which was Saturday, October 1 when Alabama and Florida were playing at the same time as Ohio State and Nebraska which everyone can agree are 4 marquee teams in the game of college football.
From TV by the Numbers….
Alabama/Florida Tops Wisconsin/Nebraska in College Football Battle
Time Net Show 18-49 Rating 18-49 Share Viewers Live+SD (million)
8:00PM CBS College Football 8-11p (Ala v. Fla.) 2.7 9 7.65
ABC College Football 8-11p (Neb v. Wisc) 1.8 5 5.61
Note in the above ratings that…
Alabama – Florida
…had a 2.7 rating, a 9 share and 7.65 million viewers
Ohio State – Nebraska
…had a 1.8 rating, a 5 share and 5.61 million viewers.
Now let’s look at those NFL ratings again which according to the BCS PR Hacks would have low-rated regular season games since the NFL uses a Postseason Playoff to determine its champion….right? NOT!
Program Viewers
1. CBS’ Two and a Half Men (Season Premiere), 9/19 28.7 million
2. FOX Sunday National (mostly Cowboys-Patriots), 10/16 28.4 million
3. NBC Thursday Night Kickoff Game (Saints-Packers), 9/8 27.1 million
4. FOX Sunday National (mostly Giants-Redskins), 9/11 25.8 million
5. NBC Sunday Night Football (Cowboys-Jets), 9/11 25.8 million
6. FOX Sunday National (mostly Packers-Bears), 9/25 24.0 million
7. NBC Sunday Night Football (Eagles-Falcons),9/18 23.4 million
8. FOX Sunday Single (mostly Lions-Cowboys), 10/2 23.3 million
9. CBS Sunday National (mostly Packers-Broncos), 10/2 23.0 million
10. CBS Sunday National (mostly Chargers-Patriots), 9/18 22.7 million
11. CBS Sunday National (mostly Jets-Patriots), 10/9 22.6 million
12. FOX Sunday Single (mostly Chi-N.O. & Dall.-S.F.), 9/18 22.5 million
13. NBC Sunday Night Football (Packers-Falcons), 10/9 22.0 million
14. CBS’ Two and a Half Men, 9/26 20.5 million
15. NBC Sunday Night Football (Steelers-Colts), 9/25 20.4 million
As Joe Friday used to say….
“Just the facts Ma’am.”
You just got the FACTS.
Which means if someone tells you that the college football regular season would somehow be diminished by college football having a Postseason Playoff to determine its champion on the Field of Play just look at that Moron and tell him or her…
“People that run TV Networks admit they would have to pay lots more money for both the postseason and regular season if college football had a Postseason Playoff because college football would become much more popular among the American People because it would attract tens of millions more fans and in FACT the people that run TV Networks completely disagree with you and in FACT the NFL has a Postseason Playoff to determine its champion and it is racking up record TV ratings right now.”
Just to put a cherry on top of the above FACTS about the incredibly positive impact that a Postseason Playoff would have on the game of college football and would help turn college football into the National Pastime instead of the NFL (Sorry, baseball quit being the American National Pastime long ago…although we still love the game of baseball and watch or attend lots of baseball games every year) two Coaches Hot Seat members were in La-La Land (Los Angeles) last night having dinner with one of their TV Network honcho friends and they talked about what the Pac-12 has been doing lately, the realignment scene in college football, the future of the Big East Conference and of course the Bogus and Un-American BCS and their friend reaffirmed again that the only problem with college football having a 16-Team Postseason Playoff is that the financial numbers would be so big that the bidding for that Playoff and for the regular season games in the future years would put lots of pressure on TV/Cable Networks to raise their production, distribution and selling capabilities even more…..although this Network TV honcho said he would love the opportunity to produce and televise a Postseason Playoff in college football because..
“It would become one of the three or four Biggest Events in American Sports right up there with the NFL Playoffs, World Series, NBA Playoffs, NCAA Tournament, The Masters and the Olympics.”
Yes, a 16-Team Postseason Playoff in College Football would be HUGELY positive for the college football and would generate the kind of money that could make ALL I-A college athletic departments profitable and allow athletic directors to do things for their non-football student-athletes that they can only dream about now and would also have very BIG positive impacts on American universities and colleges because the exposure of college football and OUR institutions of higher learning would expand to a much larger audience of Americans that would become more attached to their local and regional teams as they played throughout the regular season and then would follow closely the First, Second, Third and Final Rounds of the Postseason Tournament on an even larger scale LARGER than the NCAA Basketball Tournament (March Madness) now generates among the American public. (And those college and university presidents can turn over in their mind not only the REALITY of their athletic departments making money and giving more money to the academic side of their institution because of all the additional TV money that would be generated by a Postseason Tournament and increased interest in college football overall, but also how much more exposure America’s colleges and universities would get and with more exposure comes more students and more resources to make our institutions of higher learning even better which is the ONLY way we fix the American economy in the short and long-term).
Now could someone please explain to us why anyone with an IQ over room temperature is not for a 16-Team Postseason Playoff for College Football?
And…no…you cannot spout Absolute Nonsense fed to you by some BCS PR Hacks that have one interest and one interest only…
Hanging onto their very lucrative jobs where they get paid gobs of money with them being paid Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars to do what exactly?
Yes, college football WILL have a Postseason Playoff to determine the National Champion on the Field of Play and we hope that it is the NCAA National Champion that will be crowned because it is past time to toss these Sorry BCS Bastards to the curb and let the people in intercollegiate athletics that know how to stage great Postseason Tournaments run the Postseason Tournament for College Football the NCAA. (Let the Conferences negotiate the TV contracts for the Postseason Tournament and retain control of the money and just pay the NCAA a nice big chunk of money to run a Postseason Tournament for College Football because we believe the NCAA would do a Helluva job doing just that)
Watching the UCLA Bruins get the Hell beat out of them in the Desert from Los Angeles
As we said in the above post about a Postseason Tournament for college football two members of Coaches Hot Seat are in Los Angeles on business and they watched the UCLA – Arizona football game last night with a Network TV honcho friend of theirs who also happens to be a big fan of UCLA sports (all UCLA sports in fact since he and his family only live minutes from the UCLA campus and Pauley Pavilion) and who was terribly disappointed in how UCLA played last night against Arizona.
Los Angeles Times columnist T. J. Simers probably said it all when he wrote after the UCLA – Arizona game…
After ugly loss, little doubt about Rick Neuheisel’s future
“From Tucson — What could be worse for Rick Neuheisel than his team rolling over dead on national TV?
Worse than the embarrassment of not being able to tackle anyone, cover the opposition or stop one of the worst teams in the country from scoring seemingly every time it had the ball?
What could be worse than appearing so inept on offense against a team ranked 116th in the nation on defense?
Worse than being party to a classless brawl?
How about this: “Mr. Guerrero is unavailable for comment,” a UCLA spokesman said at halftime.
Indeed, what more can be said beyond the official announcement that UCLA has fired Rick Neuheisel as head coach?
There no longer is any doubt.”
T. J. Simers has the ability to get right to the point and as anyone can tell about our writing here at Coaches Hot Seat we missed that “getting to the point class” in college, but we digress, and Simers is sadly right that it looks like the 4 year Rick Neuheisel experiment at UCLA will end at the end of this season.
Interestingly….on December 30, 2007 we wrote the following in this Coaches Hot Seat blog:
UCLA fired Dorrell to hire who? Say it isn’t so Dan Guerrero…
“UCLA fired Karl Dorrell to hire who? Please, don’t tell us that Dan Guerrero fired Karl Dorrell to hire Rick Neuheisel, but indeed that is what Rece Davis of ESPN has been saying all afternoon. As several members of Coaches Hot Seat sat around CHS Central tonight and watched the Patriots go 16-0, we were all still stunned that Neuheisel to UCLA is not some kind of crazy dream. A few of us here had the opportunity to interact with Neuheisel when he was the head coach at Colorado and Washington and our experiences with Neuheisel were consistent, and troubling. If you have ever met Bill Clinton in person, then you know exactly what it is like to meet and interact with Rick Neuheisel, and we always wonder with both men if they would not do or say anything to achieve their goals in life. In the press release announcing Neuheisel’s hiring Neuheisel says, “I made some mistakes earlier in my career and I take responsibility for those mistakes. I have learned from that experience and I would never do anything that would reflect negatively on UCLA.” Really? Since Neuheisel is a graduate and former football player at UCLA, he has already embarrassed his school dozens of times with his actions in his career, and now all of the sudden he has seen the light? Please, that is an absolutely outrageous statement to make when everyone knows that the only school around that would dare hire Neuheisel as a head football coach is UCLA. An even stranger thing from this hire is just who in the hell is now occupying Dan Guerrero’s body, because the Dan Guerrero we know would not tolerate someone in his organization that had committed the transgressions that Neuheisel has in his career. Of course, if one paid attention to the trial where the new UCLA head coach sued the University of Washington and the NCAA, one would find all kinds of troubling comments by Neuheisel and his former bosses over Neuheisel’s actions while at UW. Why in the world Dan Guerrero would want to hire someone at UCLA that has such a troubling past is absolutely stunning, but what may be even more incredible is that UCLA had few options but Rick Neuheisel. It is time to face facts: UCLA football is now nothing more than a marginal Pac-10 team that cannot draw more than scant attention from actual qualified candidates, and when UCLA got right down to it, the head coaching job was going to be offered to a current assistant coach who had 1 game of head coaching experience, a secondary coach for a NFL team, and Rick Neuheisel. That my friend is what a former resident of Beverly Hills, a Mr. Jed Clampett would call, “Pitiful, just pitiful.””
There is more if you go to…. UCLA fired Dorrell to hire who? Say it isn’t so Dan Guerrero…
We also note that when we used to have the Comments section open on the Coaches Hot Seat Blog that the very first comment posted in response to above CHS Post on UCLA hiring Rick Neuheisel was from “Jon” and it said:
“This post is complete biased nonsense. Neuheisel received a $4.5 million wrongful termination settlement from Washington. The amount of this settlement is such that the jury found that Washington was completely in the wrong for firing Neuheisel, and goes beyond mere vindication for Neuheisel. While UCLA football has made horrible coaching hires like Karl Dorrell and Steve Lavin, hiring a proven winner like Neuheisel is a step in the right direction. He may not be the football Ben Howland, but he will put us back on a competitive level with USC, which was as lowly as UCLA is now, until they hired Pete Carroll, whose credentials were no better than Neuheisel’s. You will be eating your words. By the way, how hypocritical is it for you to call Bobby Petrino, who is also by all accounts one of the sleaziest and most dishonest people in the business, a great hire but bash Neuheisel without any legitimate grounds. You are hypocrites.”
Now that is Very Damn Funny and we can only wonder who “Jon” is because we have a sneaking suspicion that “Jon” might actually go by the first name of…
RICK!
Getting back to “Rick” Neuheisel….Rick is now in 4 seasons at UCLA
Overall: 18 – 26
Pac-10/12: 10 – 21
…and the Bruins have left in 2011:
California
Arizona State
at Utah
Colorado
at USC
….and if UCLA plays like they did against Arizona they will probably not win another game this season…..well, they might beat Colorado who is transitioning under first year coach Jon Embree.
After the UCLA – Arizona game last night the two Coaches Hot Seat members sat on the veranda by the TV Network honcho’s pool which is no more than 10 minutes by car to the UCLA campus (especially if you know the shortcut through the VA when traffic is bad on Wilshire and Sunset!) and watched ESPN SportsCenter (is there any other way that sports fans end their day?) and they talked about UCLA football going back to the days of when Terry Donahue was the head coach of the Bruins…
Terry Donahue – UCLA head coach – 1976 to 1995 (20 seasons)
Five Pac-8/10 Conference Titles
Overall: 151 – 74 – 8
Pac-8/10: 98 – 50 – 5
…..and reminisced about a time when the Rose Bowl was a place of great excitement each time UCLA played a home game there and a time when the rivalry between UCLA and USC was at its zenith (Terry Donahue had a very respectable record of 10 – 9 – 1 against the USC Trojans which included playing against the Trojans during the great John Robinson years at USC).
The three talked about the current state of UCLA football and what could be done to make UCLA a force again in the city of Los Angeles and in the Pac-12 Conference (becoming a force nationally is too far away to be discussed after losing by 30 plus points to a team in Arizona that hadn’t beaten a I-A team in its last 10 tries until the Bruins rolled into Tucson) and after arguing about what could really get UCLA football going back in the right direction again the Network TV honcho leaned back in his chair and says…
“We need a whole new way of thinking about UCLA football.”
CHS Member: “What the Hell does that mean?”
Network TV Honcho: “You two are two young to remember when John McKay took over as the head football coach at USC in 1960, but I remember it well and Coach McKay was like a breath of fresh air for Los Angeles and after struggling the first couple of years USC went undefeated in 1962 and won the National Title and until John went to Tampa (Tampa Bay Bucs of the NFL) in ’76 he and the Trojans owned this town in an even bigger way than Pete Carroll did during his run at USC.”
CHS Member: “So you are saying UCLA needs to find its own John McKay?”
Network TV Honcho: “They need to find someone as Dan (Guerrero) said recently that can move the needle and someone who can make UCLA a contender in the Pac-12 each year and beat USC on a regular basis also.”
CHS Member: “Any suggestions for who that person could be?”
Network TV Honcho: “That’s your guys department…. I only help sell cereal, cars and financial planning for Baby Boomers.”
Lots of laughter.
There were lots of potential coaching names tossed around last night that could take over at UCLA, barring a miracle by Neuheisel in the remaining games of the season, and the three decided that the “right” coach could quickly turn around UCLA football because there is plenty of talent in the LA area, the alumni base and fans of the school are hungry for winning football program and with the new Pac-12 TV contract there will be plenty of money to pay a coach a competitive salary (Which is a must if the head coach (and his family) at UCLA hope to live reasonably close to the UCLA campus which the UCLA athletic department could probably help facilitate and which could help attract better coaching candidates that would turn down UCLA after doing a cursory check of house prices in Santa Monica, Brentwood and Pacific Palisades which would be the ideal neighborhoods for the UCLA head coach to live in because of the quality of primary and secondary schools, safety of the areas and proximity to the UCLA campus in Westwood).
Yes, these are troubled times in Westwood and unless things change for the better and quick what we consider to be one of the best college football coaching jobs in the country in UCLA will come open later this year and we have no doubt that the “right” coach can win early, win often and beat Lane Kiffin or whomever is coaching USC on a regular basis…..now all Dan Guerrero has to do…if he ends up firing Neuheisel….is find that “right” coach.
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