Boone Pickens: Making A Federal Case

http://youtu.be/aoMmbUmKN0E

Remember this great clip?

After this rant about moronic print reporters who have never played the game, probably never attended a practice, and never deal with the aftermath, I have greatly appreciated Gundy.

I am hoping that OSU gets to play LSU. LSU’s schedule has been protected by her keepers for many years, including the unforgotten fact that the 2003 and 2004 teams never played a PAC-10 team and NEVER was willing to schedule USC.

LSU will NEVER have an undisputed national title unless they actually stop scheduling the AA schools and unless they regularly schedule OOC games. Oregon was a good start this year, but they beat Oregon and so did we.

Herbstreit on GameDay had the best idea that I’ve heard.
4 seats in the CFB final four.
Corso said to just do it now.
Play #4 against #1 and #2 against #3.
Then, let the winners meet in the BCS game.

Now, that is a true Afterseason.

OOC SEC schedule printed above for several schools…
LSU pumps 2-3 wins on their schedule by scheduling cupcake AA teams.
End of story.

LSU and Alabama rematch is selected by the Harris and Coaches/USA Today and the computers.

OK State is number 3 and locked out of the BCS.

BCS is a joke.

Setting aside the Boise State issue, how can you ignore OK State after beating Oklahoma by the 30+ point lead last night.

Maybe Boone will go nuclear prior to releasing all of his natural gas.
:)
Go Boone Go!

I was just watching Morning Joe on MSNBC.
They were talking BCS and noting the position that OK-State finds itself in.
One of the reporters was disappointed that we will not see the OK State v. LSU game. Joe was saying that the Stanford or Oregon v. Alabama or LSU game would have been great also.

But, then, as I was partly sleeping, it just dawned on me.

Boone has two different issues here. One is that OSU didn’t get an invite to the BCS party. More importantly, the Southerners are claiming that the SEC invited a Bowl plus Four format back ten years ago. They claim it was Big Ten and PAC-10 who were against that format.

I agree that PAC-10 and BIG-10 were opposed to a Bowl plus 4 format. However, it didn’t have to do with the existing Bowl Games. My recollection was that the University Presidents were getting concerned about the position it was putting their schools in with respect to the media and TV networks driving the budgets for collegiate athletics. Do we disagree no? The university presidents were correct.

But, the current situation with OSU and Stanford locked out of the party (and frankly Boise State and Houston too) shows that OSU will never get to the BCS. SEC locked them out period.

I woke up to post this because I remember about three months ago where OU and OSU were arguing with UT about Dan Beebe at the Big 12.

Well, do you remember what the TAMU people did? They left for SEC land. OSU just got dunked by SEC two times over. On one hand, they got dissed by being excluded by the voters. But, more importantly, OSU just got dissed by the entire SEC!

That may really be what Boone Pickens is PO’d about more. I’d like to speculate that Boone is about the CFB rules, but the reality is that the man is about ROI more than BCS. (for those of you who don’t know business or not from Marshall, look up ROI yourselves).

Boone wanted that BCS ROI in order to build competitive budget for OSU.

By the same token, the Nike guy helping Oregon is in a similar position. So, the Oregon politicos in Portland need to get off Eugene’s back. Oregon needs to be competitive with California in the same way OK needs to be competitive with TX.

I’d highly suggest that the Pickens comment is a shot over the bow of the NCAA and COI.

Essentially, what I hear in Picken’s comment is that if the NCAA COI shows up in OK, he has no problem launching against either NCAA or BCS a counter punch which will cost them big money.

We at USC have played “nice guy”. We even got the UCLA grad on KCBS with Jim Hill giving us compliments. However, Arrogant Nation has it right on this one. We should be taking the same approach as Boone Pickens. Essentially, if you wrong my school and are unfair to my team, don’t think you’ll get away with it. We will investigate you and when we’re done, if you really did screw up, your career will be in the trash and your contract will join it. As a matter of fact, if you even look like you COULD have screwed up, you’ll be out of a job also.

So, Boone is talking about SEC and conference alignment here also. He knows how much $$$ he’s thrown at OSU to help with their program and students. There’s nothing wrong with that kind of contribution. Frankly, the Nike guy should call Boone.

If there are major USC donors who are helping with the McKay Center, they may want to call Boone too. I see great commonality in the purpose and synergy in the positions.

Meanwhile Pat Haden can just stay out of the discussion while the political discussion occurs. USC is clearly wronged by the NCAA COI actions from 2005 and the fact we’re still dealing with this stuff is very unjust to the current student athletes.

Similarly, if you are from Stanford, Oregon, or USC, you have to wonder when the BCS will wisen up and realize that they are on the verge of losing all relevancy whatsoever.