Yeah, if I were Michigan, I’d be pissed. And if Michigan went and I were Florida, I’d be pissed. With the BCS computers placing Michigan and Florida in a dead tie (.940), the number two spot in the BCS Championship game was decided by the Harris and Coaches polls.
I cannot imagine a better selected group of level-headed, objective voters.
Let’s face it, putting final rankings, with so much at stake, into the hands of these two groups is nothing short of comical. In the coaches poll, the pundits are actually upset with Coach Tressel because he decided not to vote claiming a conflict of interest.
Am I living in bizaro world here! By voting, Coach Tressel would have put himself in a situation where he is having a direct impact on who his team will get to face in the BCS Championship game. Since it was made public Monday that Tressel decided not to vote, there has been nothing but criticism aimed at his decision.
So let’s see if I’ve got this right…Instead of not voting, Tressel should have spent his day analyzing both Michigan and Florida tapes, determining which team the Buckeyes would have a better shot at beating and vote appropriately.
And don’t tell me every coach in the SEC didn’t do the exact same thing with their vote. By voting for Florida, they are helping the maintain the illusion that the SEC is some really really difficult league and in turn, help set themselves up for a better start on next year’s rankings.
And every coach that votes has been able to watch all the games, analyze the teams, get an honest perspective of which team is playing at their top form…yeah right.
We have a system that decides champions based on nothing short of self-serving votes. When a coach steps back and says he doesn’t want to make a self-serving vote, he is criticized for it.
Yeah, seems like the system is working to me. (And I didn’t even mention the Harris poll.)
