A Look Back at Year One

Yesterday was my one year anniversary of my blog. One year of ranting about sports and complaining about things that are outside my control. I must say I do quite enjoy it. I look back and remember the good times: the Saints winning the Superbowl, Donovan's goal at the World Cup, Gilbert Arenas not learning about guns and sports from Plaxico Burress. But we must never forget the bad times: The deaths of many including Jon Wooden, The Yankees Winning the World Series, The fact that every ref at the World Cup was blind.

The Sports World must continue to move forward in making the games more fair: Adding instant replay to Soccer and Baseball, Putting a Salary cap in baseball, Getting rid of Al Davis. But I must look back at the original problem that I first blogged about: NO PLAYOFFS IN COLLEGE FOOTBALL!!! How does the NCAA and the BCS allow this? After seeing the money grab of the schools this off season, you'd think they would be in favor of more games.

I even have another solution: Take the BCS conferences and have their champions play in their respective bowl games: the ACC to the Orange Bowl, the "Big 12" to the Fiesta Bowl, the "Big Ten" and "Pac 10" to the Rose bowl, and the Big East to play wherever they want. For the two spots remaining, take a couple of champions from the mid major conferences (based on a mid major poll if you have to) and throw them into whatever game you want. Play those BCS Bowl games and the winners face each other in a two round playoff. The Rose Bowl winner will face the Fiesta Bowl winner, and the Orange Bowl winner will face the Sugar Bowl winner. Basically West and East Title Games. Have those winners face each other in a West vs. East National Title Game. The season would still matter and the Conference titles would have more meaning.

P.S. Or just keep having a popularity contest to see who the so called National Champion or Prom Queen. Hope Nick Saban puts plenty of lipstick.