Playoff PAC already receiving unfair criticism from pro-BCS crowd
Posted by deaconcat08 on October 23, 2009
Let me preface this column by saying that I generally like most college football commentators on ESPN/ABC. A lot of people complain about Corso and Holtz’s annoying antics, but I find them generally amusing. The only problem I begin to have with any of these guys is when they start writing columns during the week. They need to let real journalists like Ivan Maisel and Pat Forde handle the football writing, and stick to the studio work. Unfortunately, Rece Davis ignored my advice, and is now on my least favorite commentator list as a result of his analysis on this week’s Gameday kickoff column. The article can be found here: http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/notebook?page=gamedayKickoff098
Davis begins by making the commonly-heard, completely illogical argument that college football regular season is a playoff. The obvious counter to this that in playoff system, the teams that keep winning play each other until them meet to decide a champion; in college football, they don’t. Rece then criticizes a playoff system by saying that no matter how many teams you involve someone always gets left out. He states that currently LSU would be left out of an 8-team playoff and Houston would get left out of a 16 team playoff. My response is would anyone really cry foul if either of those teams didn’t have a chance to play for the national title? LSU’s offense is about on par with a Pop Warner squad and the same would go for Houston’s defense. Besides, there is a bubble in the big dance, and no one talks about how unjust the NCAA Tourney is just because some team that finishes 7th in the ACC doesn’t make the field of 65.
At this point in his analysis, Davis is being a complete moron, which might be excusable, if he didn’t take things to the next level and start criticizing the new Playoff PAC. Here’s Davis’ quote: “By the way, I wouldn’t contribute to that new Playoff Action Committee’s fundraising efforts. Your money would be better spent investing in the Heene family’s new reality show Little Falcon’s Hot Air Balloon Hoaxes.’ Then again, that Playoff Action Committee likely will have the most hot air this side of Falcon’s balloon.” I take it that the thought of legitimate political pressure on the BCS scares Rece and other anti-playoff wackos. He has absolutely no basis in questioning the legitimacy or future success of the Playoff PAC. Quite simply, ESPN gives him a horn to toot, and he chose to use to make a low-blow against a political cause that he dislikes. Maybe he should team up with Michael Moore to make a movie called ”Bowling for the BCS” or something like that.
