OT-ish – Saban unhappy about BCS selection process. Sound familiar?

The man is a goddamn baby. Every week he's whining about something or other. Oh those darn A&M players are lining up so fast!

I don't buy that teams in that situation should have nothing to lose for playing in these games.  Why?  If Alabama, the current #2 team in the country, loses to Georgia, they obviously won't get to play in the national championship game.  Why should Georgia or MSU or whatever get a free pass?  Teams have a lot to gain from playing in these games (automatic BCS bid, sometimes more); they should have something to lose, too.

The main reason his argument has no merit is that Florida actually has a better resume than either team at this point and especially will over the team that loses. Yay for big bloated conferences causing big scheduling imbalances.

Why is Nick Saban worried about what happens to Georgia? lol

Florida beat aTm and Johnny Football in College Station.

Alabama lost the to aTm and their No. 1 ranking AT HOME.

He has nothing to complain about.

Saban's team failed to win their division last year but still got to play for the national title. Oh, the cognitive disconnect!

will argue endlessly just to get their way with no regard to how they've benefited in the past from what they are now argueing against.

they suck

Well, this is politickin' from Saban.  At once an act of self-aggrandizing the SEC title game this weekend--how DARE it not be recognzied that even the loser of this game is deserving--and campaigning for a Sugar Bowl bid should 'Bama slip up. 

By comparison, Cousins's belly-aching was small-time. 

This is rich.

I would hate to be the spawn of satan

I'm surprised he didn't clamor for the entire sec to get at large bids. Part of me hopes Georgia beats him and smokes ND so I don't have to hear how he's the greatest of all time.

Saban wakes up every day wondering how he can toy with the psyche of the entire college football world. He needs something to make his day interesting. That, or he's a complete whack job.

When Alabama didn't win their division and still was able to go to the BCS National Championship

"Saban said Sunday that is isn't fair that the Gators, fifth-ranked in the BCS, likely will play in the Sugar Bowl over the loser of the Southeastern Conference title game."

So, if I read this correctly, Nick Saban is concerned about the non-zero probability that a "less than stellar" performance, if you will, in the SEC Championship Game could knock Alabama down  what Saban must term "those other bowls"? Heaven forbid that Alabama should have to interact with what Saban must see as the rabble in Division I football....

But only if the loser of the championship game retains a better record comparable top 10 ranking. They should have at least a shot at the best bowl game. However, if the loser f the championship game is like one of our big ten teams this year with multiple losses and ranked out of the top ten....screw em.

If sparty had breaten Wisky in the conf title game last year, I doubt theyd have any problem if playing and winning an extra game caused them to move UP in the polls. So how then can they complain if losing that game causes them to move DOWN in the polls? You can't have it both ways.

He didn't win his division last year and won a national championship...why is he complaining?

You know, he's right. Damn, this is such a travesty! If only there were some way to right such an agregious wrong! Something like...like, a plaaaaayyyoffff!

(heads asplode)

I recall last year various TV commentators speaking of LSU deserving to go to the NC game even if they lost the SEC championship game.  And then talk of LSU deserving a piece of #1 even if they lost to Alabama in the NC game. 

To all that I screamed at the TV and shook my fist -- "Then shut the f*ck up about the need for a playoff.  Because a playoff is precisely that -- lose and you're done.  No talk of 'body of work' or 'quality of opponents.'"

It's really simple -- win the games that need to be won and the glory is yours.  All else is just nonsense blather.

You can take Saban out of East Lansing but you can't take the East Lansing out of Saban.

BCS bids go out to teams with fewest losses.  They really don't take into consideration who won a division title or quality of wins or losses.  A 1-loss Florida gets preference over a 2-loss UGA/Alabama just as a 2-loss UM got preference over a 3-loss Sparty.  Simple really.  All the complex rankings and polls go out the window, it simply boils down to # of losses.

Sometimes I struggle with irony, but wouldn't this be irony?

So is Saban prepared to argue that he shouldn't have been in the National Championship Game last year, given that he got to go without playing a conference championship game?

the assumption that it's manly manball in football. I mean, have you looked at some of these people's HAIR?

I wish the NCAA would make Alabama the "poster child" for cheating, and remove every bit of leverage that Saban has to have people take his comments seriously.  Saban has a bully pulpit and uses it to further his own ends.  

Nice work if you can get it...