Idiots Write About Sports

Thought I’d post this before Cal gets screwed by the BCS, or more accurately, by the polls.

This, from the Dallas News:

SportsDay’s Keith Whitmire votes in the AP poll. He said he was leaning toward moving Texas ahead of Cal, as were several voters at the Big 12 title game.

“They had to win convincingly,” Whitmire said. “At this point, it became a beauty contest and Cal came up short in the evening gown competition.”

Let me get this straight. The people at the Big 12 title game (um, biased much?) declared that Cal, which was ahead of Texas in all the polls, had to win impressively in order to maintain their ranking.

What’s wrong with this picture? I can understand a team winning impressively, which causes you to move that team ahead of a team in front of them. But the logic of a team having to run up the score (which Cal had the opportunity to do at the end, by the way, and opted not to) in order to maintain their ranking escapes me.

Those who didn’t think this screwing was a done deal long ago might want to reconsider. Clearly the attitude of many of the voters — who apparently have never seen the #4 team in the country play! — is that Cal can only stay in the BCS if there’s no possible, conceivable way to find an excuse to drop them.

By the way, to add to the idiocy, let’s also point out that J.J. Arrington has far better stats than any other running back in the country, and yet all the media can talk about is Peterson of Oklahoma and Bush of USC. If Arrington isn’t invited to the Downtown Athletic Club, it will be yet another travesty.

I’ve decided that East Coast Bias isn’t the problem. It’s not-on-the-West-Coast bias. That, and the fact that people are stupefyingly lazy.

Sorry to be so cranky. I sense a Thursday afternoon in San Diego coming on.

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