ASK CFN (5/2) - A Foolproof BCS Solution
By Pete Fiutak

Q: ...What is the problem with the powers-that-be when it comes to changing the BCS...?

A: "...Hurting the cause is the flat-out wuss factor from the non-BCS leagues. It'll take a miracle for anyone outside of the BCS to ever play for the national title, yet WAC commissioner Karl Benson, who was the spokesman for the little guys, basically said they liked things as they are..."

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1- Since when did the measly WAC commish start speaking for ALL non-BCS conferences?!?

2- What exactly did Karl Benson say, Fuitak? Give me a QUOTE and a LINK you worthless sponge!

3- "Wuss factor"!!? You must be thinking of the SEC's out-of-conference scheduling tactics Petey-boy! The average non-BCS school schedules perhaps twice as many road games OOC and perhaps three-times the number difficult teams.

4- BYU and TCU both have national titles, and neither will be satisfied until their team is good enough and the system is fair enough that they can get back there again. I know that Fresno State feels exactly the same way. The problem is the SYSTEM, which is run by the big boys!!

Pete Fiutak will probably write in next week that Slavery in Early America was partially the fault of the "wuss Africans" who didn't step up and change things.

Karl Benson has obviously been blinded by money. He represents the interests of the WAC as a whole and not the individual teams. For the past two years a WAC team has gone to a BCS game and "brought home the bacon" for the rest of the teams in the conference. This probably seems like a good situation in Benson's eyes because he's more concerned with keeping the entire conference happy than he is that some individual WAC team might some day have the chance of playing for the national championship. Money first, pride whatever.

I imagine Benson's probably thinking, "Gee, as long as I can get one of my WAC teams to go undefeated--which is likely since the conference schedule is relatively weak and we've started scheduling our out of conference schedule as though we were an SEC team (witness, Nevada dropping BYU for Grambling)--that undefeated team should get a BCS bid and enrich the coffers of all the teams in the conference. Everyone's happy.

The problem with this way of thinking--aside from the obvious injustice for any WAC team that might some day want the chance to play for the BCS championship--is that the days of a non-BCS school being invited to play in a BCS game simply because it has an undefeated season are over. Hawaii ended that era. Sure it is possible that a non-BCS team can still go to one of the under-card BCS games, but it's not going to happen for a team like Hawaii which played a weak schedule (even by WAC standards) and barely won several of its games. It's going to take a team like Utah or BSU which played against a few decent, although not great, teams during the regular season and dominated each of its games. Hawaii's woeful performance against Georgia has raised the bar for non-BCS teams wanting to crash the party.

If Benson thinks he can be satisfied just because his conference has gotten teams to the BCS the past couple years, he should think again. In the future he's going to find the road a lot tougher. Let's see if he's still happy with the system when it's been a few years since one of his teams has brought home some of the BCS's filthy lucre for the other teams in his conference.

Hey, they could have sent Craig Thompson...Enough said!

Go Cougs!!!

Benson was at the recent BCS meeting representing the non-BCS leagues. He did say that exactly what was quoted. I don't know why he said it, but he said it.