Freeman: Fairy tales are for losers
Mike Freeman is full of it. Louisville deserves to play in the BC of S championship game. Would it win? Doubtful, but already we're off topic.
That's not really the point. The BCS' sole duty is to supply two teams to play in a winner-take-all title bout. That's it. Everything else is, well, written in your column, Mike, which reminds me. Headline suggestion: Ctrl+Alt+Delete.
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Something about Congress and antitrust. Everybody gets a chance. What a concept. Almost sounds like -- oh wait, it is -- a playoff. One that begins around Labor Day and holds our rapt attention until the first week of January.
Call me a shill for the commissioners who run this deal, but the BCS has made the regular season more compelling. NBA? Wake me in the fourth quarter of Game 6 of the Finals, maybe we'll talk. Baseball? If you're not cheating, you're not trying.
Besides, The 'Ville is new, huggable, refreshing. Embrace the moment. When is the last time you saw that in your stiflingly corporate NFL?
You have portrayed the Cardinals as some sort of touch football outfit. May I remind you, they aren't exactly Louisiana-Lafayette.
Quarterback Brian Brohm was the No. 1 high school player in the country. His now-injured tailback Michael Bush wasn't far behind. The school has spent enough on facilities to make The Donald blush. The official mascot of the school should be a crane. Not the bird, the mechanical thingie that lifts girders into place.
I don't want to hear about all these SEC "victims". Anthony Michael Hall in Sixteen Candles had an easier time scoring than Florida does now. Auburn got punked by Arkansas -- at home.
The point is, those teams lost, something Louisville has managed to avoid.
Don't even get me started about the non-conference schedules. Louisville has played Miami (ACC), Kansas State (Big 12) and Kentucky (SEC). That's three possible bowl teams (if Miami ever scores again), plus the Big East schedule.
Oh yeah, the Big East. No longer a running joke, Mike. In fact, last week it was the first conference in 35 years to have three undefeated teams heading into November.
You want to talk schedules? Auburn went Charmin soft, essentially building Buffalo and Arkansas State new weight rooms with nice guarantee checks. Florida has I-AA Western Carolina coming up.
