The Worst Anti-Playoff Argument Ever

[Aristotle]

Holy crap. I cannot believe this.

Imagine a world with playoffs, and it ain't pretty

[Aristotle]

I just read that anti-playoff article. That has to be one of the most worthless and absurd things I have ever read from an anti-playoff writer. Honestly, that guys painfully moronic screed adds to the pro-playoff argument due to its sheer desperate stupidity.

“We had hoped that the student body would be riled up to watch us beat the No. 1 ranked team,” said Beaver coach Mike Riley, who by definition is always riled up, “but not so. As one of them told me, ‘Who cares? It’s just another Pac-10 game. All we have to do is win the conference.

Uhhhhhh. Oregon State is in the Pac-10. To win the conference, you need to win games against conference opponents. This stupid hypothetical doesn’t even make sense.

Ohio State won the Big Ten after Penn State, who earlier in the season had defeated the Buckeyes, inexplicably lost to Iowa and Indiana.

Huh? What is the point of this fakery?

“And as for the Bruins, we already had a two-game lead in the Pac-10 so I rested most of my starters.

So you mean doing well all year has an advantage that you can rest some starters? Wow, so terrible. Good thing it never happens in pro sports, because it would ruin them. Oh wait, it doesn’t ruin pro sports? It actually makes some of those otherwise overmatched games more interesting? Oh yeah. Forgot about that.

“Students just don’t storm the field any more after games. I guess that’s because when knocking off Texas means about the same as taking down Iowa State in terms of conference standing, what’s the point?”

Is this guy for real? Head to head wins are always huge for winning a conference. This guy is a moron.

The UGA vs. GATech has zero conference relevance, and often has zero bowl game relevance for UGA. Does that diminish the game at all? Heck no.

In another first round game, SEC champ Florida lost to Boise State in Boise. The Gators were the higher seed, but a previously scheduled Rascal Flatts concert at Ben Hill Griffith Stadium could not be moved.

Ridiculous. As if the Gators would have trouble scheduling a playoff game in the Swamp. Riiiiiiiiiiiighhhhhhhhhhht.

“It’s pretty hard to study in your dorm room when fans are burning cars in the alley,” admitted heretofore pre-med Caitlyn Summers. “So I fail organic chemistry. So what? I guess being a pharmacist would be cool. Or I could always hope to marry Quan Cosby.”

And yet March Madness doesn’t ruin mid terms. Sorry, but college already has distractions far more severe than a football game. There are people getting wasted, doing drugs, having sex with everything that moves, on a nightly basis. An extra game or two for 8 out of 120 schools is hardly adding a significant academic disruption.

The national semifinals featured USC vs. Texas Tech and Boise State against Texas. Both games were played on New Year’s Day and drew so much interest that even the teams competing in the 17 other bowl games that weekend admitted to being captivated.

Wow. Another fail of an argument. So the fact that these playoff games would be ENORMOUSLY compelling is actually a bad thing now? The fact that people actually watch the GalleryFurnitureBowl at all goes to show that any bowl game, no matter when it is played, will get viewers.

We’d already locked up conference. They hit like kittens. After all, what did they have to gain by beating us?

As Mike Ditka about the 49ers the year they missed the playoffs after a 10-6 season, and played the bears in the final game. Playing a team bound for the playoffs when you are done BECOMES your playoff.

A playoff system. No more debates.

Exactly. A champion determined by playing football, not by a bunch of nerds who got stuffed in their lockers through high school and are getting their revenge as sports writers.

I can sum up this buffoon’s article in two words: EPIC FAIL.

[Sebboe]

The writer was so guilty of 1st degree douchebaggery with his sad attempts to be smarter than everyone that I couldn't even read the article much past his requirement for the at large bids.

[Vidare]

I think the only team he forgot to suck off was Spurrier's. What a fucking joke of an article.

[Cais]

Aristotle: Sorry, but college already has distractions far more severe than a football game. There are people getting wasted, doing drugs, having sex with everything that moves, on a nightly basis.

*Sigh* I miss campus life.

But seriously! I'm not even a college football fan/watcher and I couldn't tell you squat about anything. BUT, I was compelled to read this article, I don't know why. Despite my utter lack of knowledge in all things college-football, it was obvious even to me what a crock it was. I hope it adds some credence to your argument that the writer couldn't even convince someone who has no pro- or anti-playoff bias, has no vested interest in seeing either scenario realized, and, quite frankly, couldn't give a hoot either way. Walters, for the fail.

[Rylend]

That guy just made my head hurt. I would love to see a playoff system set up but I doubt it will happen.

Even if it did then it will just have people change their anger from not getting to a BCS game to not getting in the Playoff game.

People are in general just never happy with how things go, they just agree to bitch about it and be happy about getting to bitch about it.

[Aristotle]

Originally posted by Rylend

Even if it did then it will just have people change their anger from not getting to a BCS game to not getting in the Playoff game.

Yes, but this is pretty minor. It is like the people who get "snubbed" from making March Madness. It gets talked about for like 12 hours after the selection show, and then it is pretty much over.

Auburn getting screwed in 2004 is still talked about.