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Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Guest Post - Bizzle's solution for the BCS Shit-storm
Again, we always welcome it when readers submit posts. Even when it goes against what I think is right. Here is J-Bizzle's thoughts about how a playoff system should go down for college football. Enjoy, and discuss in the comments.
So Herbstreit and the entire state of Texas are pissed that OU is in the big game instead of UT. Brown has a plan for a playoff, but Big doesn’t want to leave the Hokies out of it because those crazies down in Blacksburg won their shitty ACC Title. That’s right, Mom and Dad are fighting again. What are we to do? Don’t worry, kids, ‘cause Bizzle’s gonna make it all better. I got it.....timeshareeee. [random TMNT reference, and if you don’t know what that acronym means, yes, you deserve to die and I hope you burn in hell!] Wait, no, it’s a playoff system.
Including the Independents, there are currently 12 Division 1-A NCAA Conferences. This makes for essentially 12 conference champions. Penn State wins the Big 10 by virtue of having a better record than Ohio State. But we’ll deal with that and the Big 12 in a minute.
Each conference champion is automatically in the playoffs.
ACC – Virginia Tech (9-4)
Big 12 – Oklahoma (12-1)
Big East – Cincinnati (11-2)
Big 10 – Penn State (11-1)
Conference USA – Tulsa (10-3)
1-A Indy’s – Navy (8-5)
MAC – Ball State (12-1)
MWC – Utah (12-0)
PAC 10 – USC (11-1)
Sun Belt – Troy (8-5)
SEC – Florida (12-1)
WAC – Boise State (12-0)
But what about conferences without a technical champion? Or conferences with more than one team with only one loss and to make it worse it’s 3 teams and they all lost to each other?!....Never fear. There are 4 teams left who can still get in. These would be the top 4 teams who are left after you take the conference champions out of the (BCS) rankings. In this year’s case they would be:
Texas (12-1)
Alabama (12-1)
Texas Tech (12-1)
Ohio State (10-2)
Games start a week or two after the last regular season games. There are 8, 4 and 2 games each week with two weeks allowed before the championship (or not, I really don’t care that much). Now you have the current top 10 teams in the country (according to the BCS) making it into the playoffs, and 6 potential cinderellas (yeah right). Brown gets his playoffs, Big gets VaTech and Cincy into the dance and Bear even gets to see his beloved Buckeyes. Everybody wins! Except for Badlander. No Huskers this year, buddy.
Round 1 Brackets (based on rankings):
(1) Florida vs. (16) Troy (2) Oklahoma vs. (15) Navy (I think Tulsa is ranked higher than Navy. If not, then switch it in your mind jackass.)
(8) Texas Tech vs. (9) Boise State (7) Utah vs. (10) Ohio State
(3) Texas vs. (14) Tulsa (4) Alabama vs. (13) Ball State
(6) Penn State vs. (11) Cincinnati (5) USC vs. (12) Virginia Tech
I see a couple blow-outs for sure, but I also see some potential upsets, too. Anyway, so there’s a total of 15 bowl games right there. And, from a corporate standpoint, you keep the traditional bowls (Sugar, Cotton, Peach [Chick-fil-a], Rose, etc.) although there might not be the traditional conferences facing off in them and you could still have plenty of other bowl games so conferences like the PAC 10 don’t have to go from 5 teams in the postseason to just 1 and we all have something to watch every day from Christmas to New years. Aaaaand, from a pro football standpoint, in all likelihood you are getting the players who are most likely to go into the NFL used to a longer (potentially 17 games) season.
Arguments? And no bullshit about kids missing Christmas because that’s a shitty point!
So Herbstreit and the entire state of Texas are pissed that OU is in the big game instead of UT. Brown has a plan for a playoff, but Big doesn’t want to leave the Hokies out of it because those crazies down in Blacksburg won their shitty ACC Title. That’s right, Mom and Dad are fighting again. What are we to do? Don’t worry, kids, ‘cause Bizzle’s gonna make it all better. I got it.....timeshareeee. [random TMNT reference, and if you don’t know what that acronym means, yes, you deserve to die and I hope you burn in hell!] Wait, no, it’s a playoff system.
Including the Independents, there are currently 12 Division 1-A NCAA Conferences. This makes for essentially 12 conference champions. Penn State wins the Big 10 by virtue of having a better record than Ohio State. But we’ll deal with that and the Big 12 in a minute.
Each conference champion is automatically in the playoffs.
ACC – Virginia Tech (9-4)
Big 12 – Oklahoma (12-1)
Big East – Cincinnati (11-2)
Big 10 – Penn State (11-1)
Conference USA – Tulsa (10-3)
1-A Indy’s – Navy (8-5)
MAC – Ball State (12-1)
MWC – Utah (12-0)
PAC 10 – USC (11-1)
Sun Belt – Troy (8-5)
SEC – Florida (12-1)
WAC – Boise State (12-0)
But what about conferences without a technical champion? Or conferences with more than one team with only one loss and to make it worse it’s 3 teams and they all lost to each other?!....Never fear. There are 4 teams left who can still get in. These would be the top 4 teams who are left after you take the conference champions out of the (BCS) rankings. In this year’s case they would be:
Texas (12-1)
Alabama (12-1)
Texas Tech (12-1)
Ohio State (10-2)
Games start a week or two after the last regular season games. There are 8, 4 and 2 games each week with two weeks allowed before the championship (or not, I really don’t care that much). Now you have the current top 10 teams in the country (according to the BCS) making it into the playoffs, and 6 potential cinderellas (yeah right). Brown gets his playoffs, Big gets VaTech and Cincy into the dance and Bear even gets to see his beloved Buckeyes. Everybody wins! Except for Badlander. No Huskers this year, buddy.
Round 1 Brackets (based on rankings):
(1) Florida vs. (16) Troy (2) Oklahoma vs. (15) Navy (I think Tulsa is ranked higher than Navy. If not, then switch it in your mind jackass.)
(8) Texas Tech vs. (9) Boise State (7) Utah vs. (10) Ohio State
(3) Texas vs. (14) Tulsa (4) Alabama vs. (13) Ball State
(6) Penn State vs. (11) Cincinnati (5) USC vs. (12) Virginia Tech
I see a couple blow-outs for sure, but I also see some potential upsets, too. Anyway, so there’s a total of 15 bowl games right there. And, from a corporate standpoint, you keep the traditional bowls (Sugar, Cotton, Peach [Chick-fil-a], Rose, etc.) although there might not be the traditional conferences facing off in them and you could still have plenty of other bowl games so conferences like the PAC 10 don’t have to go from 5 teams in the postseason to just 1 and we all have something to watch every day from Christmas to New years. Aaaaand, from a pro football standpoint, in all likelihood you are getting the players who are most likely to go into the NFL used to a longer (potentially 17 games) season.
Arguments? And no bullshit about kids missing Christmas because that’s a shitty point!
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Guest Post and Field Trip: Bizzle Goes to the New Texas Stadium
We don't hide the fact that we encourage our readers to submit cool stories and pictures to us so we can post them up here and the 2 other people that read this can laugh. Not many of you actually do this, but one guy who comes through in clutch is J-Bizzle.
This time, he might never be topped.
J-Bizzle got himself a tour of Jerry World, and he's shared some pictures with us.
UPDATE: Bizzle sent his own comments....see in bold
The Outside of the Stadium
This stadium is so big that you can see it from North Richland Hills...about 16 miles away
The East End of the Stadium
If you want an analogy for a size comparison:
Cowboys Stadium : me :: Big's right man-boob : the cheeto he found that he thought was a "lump" when he was giving himself a breast exam....
The View of the BallPark at Arlington
It also makes Ranger's Ballpark look ludicrously small.
A $100K Star that sits on top of the scoreboard. It's just something nice for blimps to get a shot of...
No really, that star is purely for the enjoyment of the Goodyear blimp guys. That Jerry; thinking of everybody.
A view from above the scoreboard
This is from in the neighborhood of 260 ft. above field level.
That support has to support 9 Million pounds of force, and the hand of Kyle Orton faced J-Bizzle
The buttresses are larger than 4 bulldozers apiece.
Jerry's Suite in Jerry World
This is the view that Jerry gets at every game. He also has his personal elevator to take him to field level whenever he feels like going down there. Interestingly, no helipad at this stadium.
Jerry's Throne in Jerry World
This isn't actually Jerry's Throne, although technically 75% of the toilets in that place kind of are. This is the bathroom inside one of the $150K/year suites on the suite level that you see in pic 13. They wouldn't let me take it for a test drive.
The center of the field
The scoreboard weighs 500 tons as is in this pic. It's essentially a 10 story building with two elevators. Once the crew adds the electronics, it will weigh 750 tons.
The catwalks above
That catwalk starts out at least on a 60° grade. It’s so steep that on the way down the catwalk that you use to get there doesn't look like it's level at all.
One of the buttresses also holding up the stadium...please don't fall.
I think the guy said this is the largest building in the world to be supported solely by arches. The keyword there is building. Each buttress goes into the ground 70 ft. and then goes out from the stadium 110 ft. For those keeping track: that's one 10-story building for a scoreboard and 4 7-story buildings keeping the stadium from collapsing.
Bizzle called this "Seats in the Sky"...what a shitty view
This is from the catwalk in pic 10 looking at the top tier seats. I stood on the back row of the stadium (which would probably be the only seats I could afford) and it's really not a bad view of the field at all. At least they're not behind a Titan-tron, right?
The suites...
Ranging from $100K-$1M per year. I asked if the $1M suites came with happy endings, but our guide wasn't sure.
The beginnings of the scoreboard
I'd kind of like to go to Texas Stadium now just to get the feel for how much bigger the new stadium is.
This is called "The Bus Loop", and it can, apparently, fit an entire bus
Yes, yes it can.
The club level...will be the home of 2700 televisions
I tried to enjoy all of these places that I will never get to go once the stadium is complete.
The roof still has a hole, only this one can be covered
Brown's caption covers this one.
The seats of the common man
And I sat in one for free. $5 to touch me.
Other highlights: a giant beer cooler which is about 2 stories tall; the locker room where each locker will have an outlet, DSL, HDTV and (why not) a Playstation; there is a Walmart literally across the street which was only allowed to be built because they broke ground the day the stadium was approved, yes they sell beer; I live about 2 miles straight North of the stadium so tailgating at my place!; interesting fact, you could lay the Statue of Liberty down inside the stadium and she’d fit end-to-end.
Total cost: $1.2 billion
Construction cost: $800 million
City of Arlington’s input: $300 million
Bizzle, awesome job of capturing these shots and thinking of your buddies at The Big and The Brown. Now if you can only work a press pass for us....
This time, he might never be topped.
J-Bizzle got himself a tour of Jerry World, and he's shared some pictures with us.
UPDATE: Bizzle sent his own comments....see in bold
The Outside of the Stadium
This stadium is so big that you can see it from North Richland Hills...about 16 miles away
The East End of the Stadium
If you want an analogy for a size comparison:
Cowboys Stadium : me :: Big's right man-boob : the cheeto he found that he thought was a "lump" when he was giving himself a breast exam....
The View of the BallPark at Arlington
It also makes Ranger's Ballpark look ludicrously small.
A $100K Star that sits on top of the scoreboard. It's just something nice for blimps to get a shot of...
No really, that star is purely for the enjoyment of the Goodyear blimp guys. That Jerry; thinking of everybody.
A view from above the scoreboard
This is from in the neighborhood of 260 ft. above field level.
That support has to support 9 Million pounds of force, and the hand of Kyle Orton faced J-Bizzle
The buttresses are larger than 4 bulldozers apiece.
Jerry's Suite in Jerry World
This is the view that Jerry gets at every game. He also has his personal elevator to take him to field level whenever he feels like going down there. Interestingly, no helipad at this stadium.
Jerry's Throne in Jerry World
This isn't actually Jerry's Throne, although technically 75% of the toilets in that place kind of are. This is the bathroom inside one of the $150K/year suites on the suite level that you see in pic 13. They wouldn't let me take it for a test drive.
The center of the field
The scoreboard weighs 500 tons as is in this pic. It's essentially a 10 story building with two elevators. Once the crew adds the electronics, it will weigh 750 tons.
The catwalks above
That catwalk starts out at least on a 60° grade. It’s so steep that on the way down the catwalk that you use to get there doesn't look like it's level at all.
One of the buttresses also holding up the stadium...please don't fall.
I think the guy said this is the largest building in the world to be supported solely by arches. The keyword there is building. Each buttress goes into the ground 70 ft. and then goes out from the stadium 110 ft. For those keeping track: that's one 10-story building for a scoreboard and 4 7-story buildings keeping the stadium from collapsing.
Bizzle called this "Seats in the Sky"...what a shitty view
This is from the catwalk in pic 10 looking at the top tier seats. I stood on the back row of the stadium (which would probably be the only seats I could afford) and it's really not a bad view of the field at all. At least they're not behind a Titan-tron, right?
The suites...
Ranging from $100K-$1M per year. I asked if the $1M suites came with happy endings, but our guide wasn't sure.
The beginnings of the scoreboard
I'd kind of like to go to Texas Stadium now just to get the feel for how much bigger the new stadium is.
This is called "The Bus Loop", and it can, apparently, fit an entire bus
Yes, yes it can.
The club level...will be the home of 2700 televisions
I tried to enjoy all of these places that I will never get to go once the stadium is complete.
The roof still has a hole, only this one can be covered
Brown's caption covers this one.
The seats of the common man
And I sat in one for free. $5 to touch me.
Other highlights: a giant beer cooler which is about 2 stories tall; the locker room where each locker will have an outlet, DSL, HDTV and (why not) a Playstation; there is a Walmart literally across the street which was only allowed to be built because they broke ground the day the stadium was approved, yes they sell beer; I live about 2 miles straight North of the stadium so tailgating at my place!; interesting fact, you could lay the Statue of Liberty down inside the stadium and she’d fit end-to-end.
Total cost: $1.2 billion
Construction cost: $800 million
City of Arlington’s input: $300 million
Bizzle, awesome job of capturing these shots and thinking of your buddies at The Big and The Brown. Now if you can only work a press pass for us....
Friday, August 29, 2008
America, Fuck Yea, with an interesting tidbit
So one of our readers/cementers, Bizzle, has sent us an email, and wanted to share something with the world. Here is his words.
Yo,
So I have a 3rd(?) cousin who is basically a bad ass at every thing he does. Among those is being the first Iowan to climb Mt. Everest. Long story short he's attempting to swim the English Channel sometime this week which would make him the first American to have completed what's called the "Peak and Pond" (climbing Everest and swimming the Channel). I know this isn't along the usual TB&TB agenda, but it'd be cool if you posted it. I wouldn't have sent this except for the whole being "the first American to do it" thing.
Here's a link
-Bizzle
There you go buddy, Go America
Yo,
So I have a 3rd(?) cousin who is basically a bad ass at every thing he does. Among those is being the first Iowan to climb Mt. Everest. Long story short he's attempting to swim the English Channel sometime this week which would make him the first American to have completed what's called the "Peak and Pond" (climbing Everest and swimming the Channel). I know this isn't along the usual TB&TB agenda, but it'd be cool if you posted it. I wouldn't have sent this except for the whole being "the first American to do it" thing.
Here's a link
-Bizzle
There you go buddy, Go America
Friday, August 1, 2008
because who dosn't like football and hot chicks, if only there was a way....
to combine them both......
(kinda NSFW)
(kinda NSFW)
Thanks to Bizzle for the vid.
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