FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 2001
Talent vs. Money, what decides the Championship?
country out, despite a fluke safety late
in the game. For many people, it was
utter joy seeing Heisman
Trophy winner Chris
Caught in the Grasp Weinke under pressure all
night, fumbling once and
Douglas Smith throwing two interceptions.
It was absolutely marvelous,
but what topped the whole
night off was seeing a very dumb
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founded Bobby Bowden answer ques
tions at the press conference. He is a
very good coach. but his weaknesses
were very accentuated in the Seminoles
The Bowl Championship Series
(BCS) is now over and once again,
unfortunately, those in charge can say it
worked perfectly; they crowned an
unprecedented national championship in
the Oklahoma Sooners and the masterful
Bob Stoops. However, if Florida State
would have won the Orange Bowl, then
four different teams would have had an
argument. Only Miami and Florida State
would have had a legitimate complaint. I
realized I have talked about this before,
hut let us look one more time at the
behind the scenes aspects.
Before we delve too deep, let us just
compliment the Sooners for their
domination of the Seminoles on January
3rd. For all intensive purposes, they
shut the most powerful offense in the
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Okay, now hack to the matter at hand.
The BCS had a game that involved
Oregon State and Notre Dame. The
Beavers of Oregon State crushed the
Fighting Irish; this was also a very
exciting event in the college football
bowl season. However, this exposed the
problem of whether or not the right
team was selected. Four other teams
were ranked higher than Notre Dame in
the final BCS standings before the bowl
games were announced. The three
teams with the biggest gripe were
Virginia Tech, Nebraska, and Kansas
State. Virginia Tech dominated Clemson
in their game, hut their schedule may
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have not been that strong. Nebraska
obliterated Northwestern who were
probably not worthy opponents in a
season that could be described in only
one word for Northwestern: lucky.
Nebraska also had one more loss than
the Fighting Irish. However, two of
Kansas State's losses came from the
number one Sooners. One was very
close, and Kansas State did easily heat
Tennessee in the Cotton Bowl.
So why is this such a big deal? Well
it comes down to that green stuff one
more time. Notre Dame was awarded
12.5 million dollars for reaching a BCS
game. Notre Dame does not belong to a
conference: they are an independent.
This means they get to keep all that
money. Is this special treatment of sorts
simply because the words 'Notre Dame'
will draw people to the game? I think
so. A bigwig at Notre Dame was
interviewed during the game and said
the extra money goes to financial aid for
the students. Well, here's my theory
about that. First priority is the athletic
department and they will get new
equipment or what have you. Then
comes something that just needed a
little bit more funding to he completed.
Then the money goes to financial aid.
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Most of it is probably reserved for
scholarships for athletes. Once again a
little bit of special treatment is involved.
The financial aid office probably expects
some money, a set amount, from the
athletic department, so the money is not
a surprise help at all.
I swear I ant done rambling about this
BCS stuff (for this year). It is just that
"tweaking'' needs to he done. Although I
must say that the fact that the Rose Bowl
is next year's championship game really
throws me off. This means that Penn
State could win the Big Ten and have to
play in another howl. Winning the Pac
-10 and Big Ten meant playing in the
Rose Bowl. I told you there was more to
rtunhle on next year.
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