If the BCS ran other sports...
From NPR:
If the BCS ran the Olympics, the 100-meter final would be held in
September, six or seven weeks after the scheduled heats. That, you see,
is consistent with the cuckoo BCS scheduling. LSU's last game was on
Dec. 2. Alabama's was way back in November — 45 days ago. Nowhere else
in sport is there such a pointless, bizarre interval.
If
the BCS ran the NFL, there would be no playoffs. Instead, a bunch of
mysterious computers and some dubious experts — many of whom have
conflicts of interest — would just declare which teams qualified for the
Super Bowl ... then schedule the matchup 45 days from now, of course.
If the BCS ran the World Series, tens of millions of dollars would
still be made, and the leagues, and the owners, and the managers, and
everyone connected with the Series would be paid. Well, everyone except
for the players. But, you see, this is in keeping with the BCS rationale
that players are actually much happier playing when they aren't
burdened by making money.
Of course, baseball
boosters would slip some cash under the table to the major leaguers, to
make sure that amateurism remains pure.
If
the BCS ran the World Cup, there would be no World Cup. Instead, there
would just be a mind-numbing plethora of meaningless soccer matches
played between disparate countries, like Peru vs. Slovenia, scheduled at
random neutral sites like Sri Lanka.
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