Pittsburgh football

ThaSaltCracka · #1 12-06-2004, 02:13 AM

how the [censored] is an 8-3 team in a BCS bowl? Ridiculous.

IggyWH · #2 12-06-2004, 02:41 AM

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how the [censored] is an 8-3 team in a BCS bowl? Ridiculous.

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OH IT IS SO ON...

Where were you when FSU played in the Sugar Bowl in 2002 with the great record of 9-4?

Where were you when LSU played in the Sugar Bowl in 2001 with the great record of 9-3?

Where were you when Purdue played in the Rose Bowl in 2000 with the great record of 8-3?

Where were you when Stanford played in the Rose Bowl in 1999 with the great record of 8-3?

Where were you when Syracuse played in the Orange Bowl in 1998 with the great record of 8-3?

I'm sick of people saying how horrible it is that Pitt's in a BCS Bowl. Where were you the last 6 years (excluding last year)?

theredwave · #3 12-06-2004, 02:41 AM

Seriously, even the Huskers beat them. And it was at home for them. They did have a good second half of the season but they aren't a BCS team. Somehow they manage to win a weak division and get a seat into a BCS bowl when there are at least 10 other schools that deserve it.

ThaSaltCracka · #4 12-06-2004, 02:45 AM

my main beef is that the Big East has an automatic BCS bid, why do they? Thats ridiculous.

ThaSaltCracka · #5 12-06-2004, 02:49 AM

also they are 21st in the final BCS standings. This makes no sense.

IggyWH · #6 12-06-2004, 03:03 AM

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my main beef is that the Big East has an automatic BCS bid, why do they? Thats ridiculous.

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What's ridiculous is that the NCAA didn't have the balls to stop something that was ILLEGAL! They let Miami and VaTech leave the Big East without warning leaving the Big East to scramble to try to collect itself. What they did was a violation of conference rules but those didn't hold up in court to change things.

The NCAA's should have stood up though and stopped it so the LEAST that the NCAA owes the Big East is to give it a chance to recollect itself. Let's reverse the senerio and tell me what you think...

Miami and VaTech officially decided to join the ACC in July of 2003 and it starts effective the next school year So let's go back 5 months and say it's July 2004 :

Oklahoma & Texas announce they are leaving the Big-12 effective the next school year. Big-12 e doesn't add any teams in time for the 2005 football season. Would they still deserve their automatic BCS Bid?

USC & Cal announce they are leaving the PAC-10 effective the next school year. Pac-10 doesn't add any teams in time for the 2005 football season. Would they still deserve their automatic BCS Bid?

Auburn & Georgia announce they are leaving the SEC effective the next school year. SEC doesn't add any teams in time for the 2005 football season. Would they still deserve their automatic BCS Bid?

Michigan & Iowa announce they are leaving the Big-10 effective the next school year. Big-10 doesn't add any teams in time for the 2005 football season. Would they still deserve their automatic BCS Bid?

Miami & VaTech announce... okay, bad example [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

Now some of those you can still argue they could still hold a bid such as the SEC or Big-12 MAYBE. You can't argue that Big-10 or PAC-10 would deserve to keep their BSC Bid though if you believe the Big East doesn't deserve theirs. If what happened to the Big East happened to any of these other major conferences though, you got to give them the benefit of the doubt and a little time before you go saying they don't deserve a BCS Bid.

The Big East will be back. WVU was supposed to be a National Championship contender this year but choked. BC was supposed to be a real good team but they also choked. Conferences have their up and down years... it just so happened the teams that were supposed to do well in the Big East this year didn't do what these so called experts expected them to do.

ThaSaltCracka · #7 12-06-2004, 03:09 AM

ah thats right, I forgot about VT and Miami leaving. Be honest with yourself though, how can a conference in which the best team has an 8-3 record deserve a BCS bid.

IggyWH · #8 12-06-2004, 03:13 AM

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ah thats right, I forgot about VT and Miami leaving. Be honest with yourself though, how can a conference in which the best team has an 8-3 record deserve a BCS bid.

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http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...;o=14&vc=1

^ refer to that post!

doughhater · #9 12-06-2004, 03:17 AM

The fact is that all this BCS crap is just a load of bullshit anyway. It's not real football unless there's some sort of playoffs to determine who the best team is.

ThaSaltCracka · #10 12-06-2004, 03:19 AM

they played in better conferences