Michael Wilbon's Argument Makes No Sense
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/02/AR20090…
Brian just posed this, and I'd figure I'd respond, since his argument is about as thought out as 'intelligent design'.
Wilbon's complaint is that, somehow, this year, for the first time, all but one bowl is an exhibition. Um... has he been unaware of the last 100+ years of the college post season?
They have always been exhibitions. Pre-BCS, I suppose there were a few instances when maybe the results of two bowls had National Championship implications (97 season's Orange and Rose Bowls, for example).
I'm sorry Wilbon, your argument is based on a false assumption. 99% of bowls are played because we like watching football, not because we want to listen to even -more- terrible journalism by authors who wish they were watching the NFL instead.
January 2nd, 2009 at 4:15 PM ^
...ever wear a damn tie?! I have never seen him wear a dress shirt, tie, and suit coat. It's always a polo buttoned to the top button and a sport coat or some small variation. But never a tie.
I stopped watching PTI, though, so maybe he has done so in the past year or two since I stopped watching semi-reguarly. It always annoyed me for some reason. That and his whiny voice.
January 2nd, 2009 at 4:18 PM ^
He has one point, I'm not overly thrilled with the bowl season that I know what bowls are on what days in advance. Many of the bowls I don't care about. The bowls now associated with the BCS used to be big. Now several are just meh -- here's looking at you Orange Bowl. I can't remember the last time an Orange Bowl counted for anything.
January 2nd, 2009 at 7:34 PM ^
When we beat 'Bama.
But I agree with Wilbon that the games are diluted because they are spread out. I am pretty much going to watch (a) games on January 1 b/c I am hungover; (b) any game in which UM plays (regardless of date); and MAYBE (c) the national championship game if it is a really good match-up. I am not scheduling my days around any other game. So the non-January 1 games that aren't for all the marbles get lost in the shuffle. If they were all condensed on 1/1, then more people would probably watch them.