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So then you don't think a team has to win their conference to play in the championship game.

I'm not being specific to this season which is why I started a different thread. I believe that just like the basketball playoffs, that the two best teams in the nation can come from the same conference. You are eliminating that possibility. This year there are two Big Ten teams and two Big 12 teams in the top 6. Using Michigan and Ohio as examples; if they had finised 1-2 in the polls would you have argued that one should be tossed out of the championship game and replaced by the 3rd rated team? That only one from the conference, the champion should play? If we make it a rule that to play in the championship game you have to win your last game of the season we will have programs scheduling stiffs to end the season.

I would rather they play for this year and fold up the team the following year. After 40+ years I've seen to much of not even making the playoffs and then rebuilding. Rebuilding what? That implies we had built something to begin with. This last year should have been the start of 2 or 3 years of contending. Instead, we are trying to rebuild a team that can win 88 games? We've been rebuilding since 1917. There is no building in baseball. You try and sign the best free agents, hope to add a rookie phenom, a couple players have career years, and pray your manager doesn't f*** it up. At the end of season repeat process. Developing players is too hit or miss. Dammit why did you get me started?

BeGood is the only one here that could use his real name and we would think it was a screen name

He's a Sox fan, he has to know the Dan Ryan. THANKS but ill only let your ride on it if you respect me respect you!? ok, as long as I don't have to like you ~and~ I don't kiss on the lips.

My favorite quote "We have to work a little harder in the future to retain players with the resources we have," he said. Work a little harder?! You dumb s***s. How much f***ing work is it to spend a few more dollars? That's the work. Quit using euphanisms work = money

I'd love Maddux if time travel was possible. Sorry, he's going to have a losing record next year and be out of the league by 2006.

I rarely use AIM but this week I received two IM from list members who somehow found out my ID. I removed that info from this site months ago. Both claimed to be administrators; but my guess it was someone playing a prank.

I like your expressway

Would you leave Oklahoma in the playoffs? Texas? Ohio? Or would you just invite the conference winners? Wouldn't there be more controversy with Kansas in the playoffs this year and not Texas and Oklahoma, both ranked by everbody in the top 8? Do you think a playoff would be better that didn't take the top 4 or 8 teams in the nation, regardless if they won their conference championship or not?

OMG, I'm being sucked into the BeGood vortex, I'm responding to two of his threads in one week. Must try and get out of the spell can't look any more

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right but who do you think released it? My theory is someone has a copy, probably within Em's group, and the peon gets pissed and calls company B and says hey how would you like a copy of Em rapping about liking the president dead? They snatch it up and release it. I don't see Em wanting this released. Notice it only gets those people who don't care for Em upset. His hardcore, loyal not matter what, followers will continue to support him. In fact it may increase his street cred.

How can you automatically say that one conference can never have the two best teams in the nation? By limiting the championship game to conference champs only we are saying before they play a single down that no two teams from the same conference can be 1-2 in the nation. Does that make sense logically? It also then makes the assumption that, for example, the winner of the MAC is a stronger team, more worthy of national title hopes, than say Ohio, Texas, or Oklahoma. You just eliminated mid conferences from your equation. Why does the NCAA invite more than 1 team from some conferences into the basketball tourny? Could it be they recognize that the second place team in a conference may be the best team in the nation? How many times have we seen the winner of a b-ball conference tourny is seeded lower than another team in their conference?

Heads, did you have a doe only permit? Does Illinois still have multiple seasons based on weapon? Interesting thing down here that surprised me at first. When I was is Illinois, it was always possible to find a landowner willing to let you hunt theirland for free or a small cost (meat, work, etc.) In Texas with all this scrub brush, nohing on it land, deer leases are big bucks (no pun intended). A decent lease will run you $2,000 and up. Makes venison a bit pricy. Nice doe

Do you get to the island at all?

It would be a bad idea if the BCS limited teams in the championship game to just conference winners and here's why: First off you have eliminated the possibility that the top two teams in the country could be in the same conference. The Big 12 and the Big 10 both have 2 teams in the top 6 or 8 this season. It is theoretically possible, if not probable, that someday two teams from the same conference could finish 1-2 in the country. In NCAA basketball they do not put every team from the same conference into the same bracket. It is possible the championship game could be with two teams from the same conference. One of course would not be the conference champion. If the NCAA went to a 8 team playoff and you believe that conference champions only should be eligible to play for the title you would have to toss out Texas and Oklahoma, both top 8 teams. Ohio State would also get tossed. That's 3 of the top 8 out of the playoffs. Would you take the winner of the MAC most years over the 2nd place Big 10 team? Looking back I couldn't see a year that made sense. In prosports you would eliminate the wild card and the Marlins would not be the WS Champs. College football will always have subjective rankings. There is no feasible way to have a 64 team tourney so someone or something (computers) will have to rank subjective factors like quality of wins, quality of schedule, etc. to determine the champions.

And you took it as well as you dished it. This is what quality board posting is all about. While I'm not a fan of rap, I did buy The Eminem Show. Very good cd.

One day, while working in Mexico, I wish I knew how to say liver. I loaded up a tortilla, added some salsa, thinking it was bistek. Two chews later I discovered it was liver and I hate liver.

LMAO

Definately. Remember the Rio Grande Valley is 80+% Hispanic. I'm the minority. Especially since I can't seem to learn enough espanol beside cerveza, taquilla, nachos, etc.

The BCS replaced a worse system. USC would be locked into playing the Big Ten Champion in the Rose Bowl which, except by a miracle, would never have the top 2 teams in the nation. The BCS needs to be tweeked. The best rule I can think of is if the Coaches and Writers both agree on the #1 and #2 then they play, regardless of the computer rankings. Oklahoma was down for 6 minutes the entire season leading up to the Kansas Game. The computers didn't regard losing to Kansas as bad as losing to Cal.

Poor BeGood, he tries a nice holiday thread and gets this

No, that would have been better than the Oklahoma tree. We make a lot of money from Mexico in Texas. Mexican Nationals spend over $10,000,000 per year in McAllen. More than they spend in San Diego, Vegas, Chicago, or New York. No returns for the retail stores, no "just shopping". They arrive with $$$ and intend on spending it all before they leave.

Prostitutes Rally for Brothel Legislation Mon Dec 8,12:34 PM ET ATHENS, Greece - About 50 prostitutes marched to Parliament Monday to protest a government decision to withdraw legislation that would have made it easier for brothels to operate in Athens during the Aug. 13-29 Olympics. AP Photo Reuters Slideshow: 2004 Olympics "We will protest," Dimitra Kanellopoulou, head of the Movement of Greek Prostitutes, told The Associated Press. "Those who persevere win. They cannot decide for us, without us." Prostitution is legal and highly regulated in Greece, but only in state-licensed brothels. The bill, which was a key demand of unions representing Greek prostitutes, was withdrawn in late November after discussions between Socialist Premier Costas Simitis and Parliament Speaker Apostolos Kaklamanis. It would have eased restrictions in a 1999 law that sets strict rules on the location of bordellos. Prostitutes accused the government of trying to enforce the legislation to clean up the capital ahead of the Olympic next summer and demanded that it be changed. Closing legal brothels, prostitutes have said, would feed the illegal sex trade before the Olympics. "We demand our right to work and to our dignity," the prostitutes said in a statement handed to a parliament official. "More than 7,000 women who are licensed to work are being hassled and abused daily." Under the current law, Athens' mix of residential and commercial zones makes almost any area off-limits to brothels. The Greek Orthodox church and other groups were opposed to the new legislation, which would have allowed bordellos to operate closer to public buildings such as schools, churches, and daycare centers. Prostitutes — mostly linked to state-sanctioned brothels — have staged dozens of protests in recent months demanding that authorities back off enforcement of the 1999 law. They now promise to stage more demonstrations. "We will not sit with our arms crossed," they shouted outside parliament. Before the bill was withdrawn, Deputy Interior Minister Nikos Bistis had pleaded for its immediate approval because of its connection to the Olympics. Kaklamanis' office has indicated the bill would not be presented to the unicameral body during its current session, which ends when elections are held next spring.