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Punks Rule the Football World
Published: 12/5/2011 1:23 PM
Last Modified: 12/5/2011 4:07 PM

Led by ESPN, the merchant of bias, incompetence, evil, and dumbness, Alabama won the popularity contest over Oklahoma State to play in the fake national title game.

After the campaign championed by ESPN, it's a wonder the final tally was as close as it was.

According to ESPN "experts," Alabama won the "eye test."

These ESPN clowns can't pick a winner but know who belongs in the final game?

The "eye test" is where ESPN folds under pressure and looks at profits generated by the SEC.

For as disgusting a read as you can ever find, please get USA Today and check out the individual ballots submitted by voting coaches.

Missouri coach Gary Pinkel, recently picked up for drunk driving, turned in the most disgusting ballot in football history. He put every Big 12 team lower than where it wound up in the final poll. He voted OSU fourth, behind Stanford. Numbskull Air Force coach Troy Calhoun had Oklahoma State fifth behind Arkansas! Homer Stanford coach David Shaw had OSU fourth behind his own team. Non-stop campaigner Nick Saban had OSU fourth. These people should be ashamed of their bias and should be banned from ever voting again.

What's a fan to do?

The only recourse is to stay away from the pathetic bowls, don't go, don't watch on TV, don't buy the products. Here's our all-time favorite bowl, the Fired Coaches Bowl, UCLA 6-7 versus Illinios, 6-6, with both coaches having been dumped.

Hardly anything is worse than OU-Iowa in the Humiliation Bowl.

What's to become of OU?

More of the same. Stoops wins too much to be chastised by the in-state media puppets. He's too good to be put on notice, not good enough to win another national title. According to the homers, the solution is to fortify the good ol' boys coaching club by rehiring Mike Stoops, whose teams haven't stopped anybody in close to a decade.

And how about Oklahoma State's field goal call at Iowa State. Nice call ref. Wherever you're hiding.

Boycott the bowls.




Reader Comments 32 Total
jpj (last year)
Gee Pick, stop beating around the bush and tell us how you really feel. Pick for Prez!
The Picker (last year)
Where's that field goal zebra that cost the conference around a billion? Had he said the kick was good, nobody would have said a word.

But on the other hand, who knows if ESPN would have let OSU go to the final game even undefeated. Remember Auburn was undefeated and cheated a few years back.
                    
JCD1978 (last year)
Wasn't this official the same one who called the bogus interference penalty on the OSU safety that allowed ISU to drive for a TD instead of kicking a FG?
Junie S (last year)
go ducks
jpj (last year)
Good point Pick. OSU's loss meant that the People's Republic of Bristol only needed to use excuse # 1 to keep OSU from the Big Easy. But, I'm sure they had a list of backup excuses that would rival Letterman's Top Ten list, ready and waiting.
W. G. (last year)
I am hoping that LSU kicks the snot out of the tide on a "neutral" field. But, I will not be watching. Boycott the BCS.
Danomite Dandy Dan (last year)
I'm in. BOYCOTT.
I've already seen Ala-LSU and don't need the snooze.
But What Do I Know? (last year)
I remember when ESPN was launched and I thought "That's the dumbest idea ever. No way it'll survive over 6 months". How dumb was I now that they rule the world of sports.

A side note. Did anyone ever imagine that on the same day OSU would smash OU and Baylor would blow out Texas?
                    
laz (last year)
it would appear that all is right in the world. except the osu vs lsu fiasco.
The Picker (last year)
How the mighty have tanked.

With no visible means of escape.
Art Vandelay (last year)
Ex Iowa AD George Wine who has a vote in the Harris Poll had Houston 5 and OK State 6!
And how did Texas end up 24th?!?!?
                    
hootie (last year)
Texas at #24 is the biggest joke!!!!
225818 (last year)
I boycott of the sequel to this fall's awful game will be easy. I agree, we all need to stop supporting a system that constantly disappoints and cheats. Us fans come back every year expecting the ESPN's of the world to change. I'm convinced that OSU could have beaten OU by 80 and still, smug Herbstreit would have said that Bama passes his expert "eye test."

Us fans are like Charley Brown going to kick the ball and Lucy (BCS/espn) pulls it away. Let's all stop trying to kick the ball and stay away from the awful, meaningless games.
Tulsan in Exile (last year)
There is so much money involved in the Bowl Cheating System that it is time, honestly, to look into a federal anti-trust lawsuit. The whole scheme is designed to guarantee that the SEC plays itself, if possible, for the championship. If it were just for a championship phoney trophy, I would say "who cares?" But there are tens of millions involved.

On another topic, what about that awful bowl Southern Miss has been given? Geez, at least Tulsa played a decent Hawaii team last year. One of the best teams in S. Miss history gets to play 7-5 Nevada!!! Great job, Banowsky!!!

And... Compared with OU, Tulsa has come out pretty well. BYU will be a good game.
norsemustang (last year)
Wonder what chance OSU has of an AP national championship.
redriverndn (last year)
Last year's Fyesta Bowl scandal was just the tip of the iceberg that has been repaired by a flow of cash(iceberg lettuce?) that has fattened up investigator slush funds so that they only spanked the Fiesta bowl & not the others....

This system will never change because those fat cats in the ugly jackets make tax-free mega bucks & they will NEVER let that go & because they know who to pay off with "insurance" money, it never will....
Golden Hurricane (last year)
I am absolutely STUNNED at how many people think this is an outrage that OSU is not in the title game.

I'm not saying OSU is clearly number three, because we don't know for sure, but the idea that the picker, or anyone else, is disgusted because the Stanford coach had the audacity to vote his ONE LOSS team (the same record as OSU with a loss to a better team) ahead of OSU, is almost childish. Really?? The Stanford coach isn't allowed to feel his team, who's best win is better than OSU's best win (USC) and who's loss came to the Rose Bowl participant which is better than OSU's loss to crummy Iowa State?? Seriously, you people are unbelievable.

Like I said, it's okay to think that OSU belongs in the title game, but to act as if Alabama has no claim is utterly ridiculous and smacks homerism of the highest order.
Denster (last year)
And for an ulmost totally urelated comment...

The Picker rated the area QB's in the following order before the start of the season:

1. Jones
2. Kinne
3. Weeden

Any changes at this point?
                    
Denster (last year)
Make that 'almost'
                    
Golden Hurricane (last year)
As far as this year in college, the picker was wrong...as far as the NFL goes, he's 100% correct. Put Weeden under any duress and he is terrible...credit to OSU's offensive line for keeping him upright. What is Brandon now, 38 years old? I think he should dominate all these kids...won't be that way in the NFL though.
                    
Denster (last year)
Alright - let's talk after the draft
snakeman (last year)
Season's over, end of story. OSU had to go undefeated. Didn't happen. Most teams would be happy to go to any bowl. Go Stanford!
The Picker (last year)
GHurricane, OSU is favored over Stanford.

You're guessing who belongs where, like everybody else, which defines the system as junk. You like the Air Force guy putting OSU fifth? Your TU and Dallas teams could stand some of your focus. Not OSU, which probably made that field goal.
Junie S (last year)
picker is always right. ALWAYS.
Solo (last year)
Way back before there was a BCS or an ESPN all we had were Polls and Bowls. Remember split national championships and goofy biased AP and USA Today pollsters? Somebody got screwed almost every year back then. But after all of the complaining about the old ways what have we accomplished? We managed to turn the great sport of college football into nothing more than the sport of corporate greed and politics. The whole thing makes me sick...
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