Now THIS is something Dez has a right to be ticked about

[The Emperor]

It probably matters a lot to a guy that dropped to 24th and signed for $8.5 million guaranteed when a spot in the top 10 would have earned him $20 million guaranteed.

It didn't look like it when he was drafted.

 

[The Emperor]

I lol at people who say the NFL is all about the money.

College Football is 100% about the money.

They refuse to name a legit champion just for money reasons.


The Texas Longhorns had a chance to end all of that by going to the Pac 16 but what did they do? They took an incredible money offer instead of just taking a really good money offer and pioneering for the betterment of the sport.

This isn't 1990 anymore. There's such a thing as the Bowl Championship Series that allows college football to name such legitimate champions. It's no longer strictly based upon what a bunch of writers vote anymore.

 

[T-RO]

Well honestly if Auburn loses to SC, I still think they play for the title. A 1 loss SEC team will look more impressive than a 0 loss MWC team. I still agree with the OP, though. It really doesn't matter. But the NCAA is showing that they are not consistent.

Teams like Boise St. and Utah have beat very highly ranked Sooner and Alabama teams in recent bowls. In fact Utah absolutely DESTROYED 'Bama in the trenches and everywhere else.

Conference "powerhouses" is a myth built up by the media as they pitch their tv programming and accommodate rich conferences.

 

[mldardy]

Dez flat out "LIED" to the NCAA, he got what he deserves...

HE LIED, HE SHOULD BANISHED FOREVER. Give me a break dude it's not that deep.

 

[StylisticS]

Teams like Boise St. and Utah have beat very highly ranked Sooner and Alabama teams in recent bowls. In fact Utah absolutely DESTROYED 'Bama in the trenches and everywhere else.

Conference "powerhouses" is a myth built up by the media as they pitch their tv programming and accommodate rich conferences.

Eh. It's one thing to beat a team in a bowl game or when they play the first game of the season. It's another to beat an SEC, Big 10, or Big 12 team on a week to week basis. That's why I don't understand why people bring up those games and act like they mean much. That's great that Utah beat Alabama. Now what if Utah played Alabama followed by Georgia, followed by Ole Miss, followed by LSU, followed by Arkansas instead of beating Wyoming, San Diego State, New Mexico, and Colorado State.

 

[Primetime42]

The NCAA itself needs investigation...for a ton of things. The pile of corruption has been mounting in all kinds of ways. The BCS system is a crok. You have Bowl administrators making 400k a year. Favoriti$m runs rampant.

And the notion that Cam's father is culpable but his son is not is such BS. The NCAA and ESPN machine has fated Cam for the championship game and heisman award.* They won't let this little scandal get in the way.

If you want to see an interesting parallel take a look over the past decade at how many times:
1. Schools without big money from conferences without big money play for a title. (Answer: never)
2. How often teams that play in the title game happen to have the Heisman player on their team. (Answer: almost every season) What a coincidence.

"Death to the BCS"

Read it sometime.

http://www.deathtothebcs.com/site/about_the_book

 

[tko112204]

Eh. It's one thing to beat a team in a bowl game or when they play the first game of the season. It's another to beat an SEC, Big 10, or Big 12 team on a week to week basis. That's why I don't understand why people bring up those games and act like they mean much. That's great that Utah beat Alabama. Now what if Utah played Alabama followed by Georgia, followed by Ole Miss, followed by LSU, followed by Arkansas instead of beating Wyoming, San Diego State, New Mexico, and Colorado State.

Thank you.

'Bama was poised for the NC game, lost the SECCG and you really think they were interested in waiting a month to beat a team that, even if they won, well they were supposed to win anyway.

And I would take Boise over a lot of teams with a month for Peterson to prepare. But neither of those teams, nor TCU, could go through the SEC, or the Big 10, or the Pac 10, year over year, and still be contenders. Cherry-picking bowl game losses or single game losses doesn't excuse away how much easier it is for TCU to play New Mexico and then have an open week when in the same two weeks Auburn beat 'Bama and now has to play SC in the SECCG.

TCU is good. But they would finish in the middle of the SEC.

Boise and Utah wouldn't do that well.

 

[DasTex]

What it does is have a lot of dad's around the country wondering how to pull this same deal, where the parents get cash, and nothing happens to the "innocent and unknowing" kid if they get caught.

Bad move NCAA...just opened the door to a whole lot of issues in the future.

 

[burmafrd]

This in some respects was the only way they could play it at this time; if they had no evidence from any independent source that showed Cam knew about it. This is a case where the letter of the law should be ignored - does anyone Really think that Cam did not KNOW about all of this?

 

[YosemiteSam]

The NCAA is a sham just like the NBA. Both are corrupt organizations that should be taken out with the garbage.

 

[CanadianCowboysFan]

Dez flat out "LIED" to the NCAA, he got what he deserves...

OMG he lied, shoot him

 

[tko112204]

The NCAA is a sham just like the NBA. Both are corrupt organizations that should be taken out with the garbage.

That's a real nice tin-foil hat you have there, nyc.

 

[Hoofbite]

Guess the lesson is........don't lie to people that control your future.