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Ohio State president: TCU, Boise State don't belong in title game

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Columbus, Ohio — Even if TCU and Boise State run the table, they still don't deserve to be in the Bowl Championship Series title game, Ohio State president E. Gordon Gee said Wednesday.

In an interview with the Associated Press, the president at the university with the largest athletic program in the country said that TCU and Boise State do not face a difficult enough schedule to play in the national championship game.

"Well, I don't know enough about the Xs and Os of college football," said Gee, formerly the president at West Virginia, Colorado, Brown and Vanderbilt universities. "I do know, having been both a Southeastern Conference president and a Big Ten president, that it's like murderer's row every week for these schools. We do not play the Little Sisters of the Poor. We play very fine schools on any given day. So I think until a university runs through that gauntlet that there's some reason to believe that they not be the best teams to (be) in the big ballgame."

Gee, long an admirer of the BCS and the current bowl system, said he was against a playoff in the Football Bowl Subdivision.

"If you put a gun to my head and said, 'What are you going to do about a playoff system (if) the BCS system as it now exists goes away?' I would vote immediately to go back to the bowl system," he said.

He said the current system is better for the student-athletes.

"It's not about this incessant drive to have a national championship because I think that's a slippery slope to professionalism," he said. "I'm a fan of the bowl system and I think that by and large it's worked very, very well."

He cited Ohio State's presence in the 2007 national title game as an example.

The Buckeyes won their first 10 games that season to rise to No. 1 before losing 26-21 at home to unranked Illinois. They fell all the way to No. 8 in the BCS rankings.

A series of upsets over the final weeks of the regular season and in other team's conference championship games led to the Buckeyes climbing all the way back to the No. 1 spot in the final BCS rankings. They were matched against an LSU team with two losses.

Ohio State led 10-0 early only to have LSU come back and score the next 31 points in a 38-24 victory at the Louisiana Superdome.

"You know, it's a mystery," Gee said. "We were No. 1 then No. 11 then No. 7 and we ended up playing for the national championship. I think I kind of like that mixed-up mystery."

While he was at Vanderbilt, Gee abolished the athletic department since it was underwritten by the university's general fund anyway. He said he has no problem with an Ohio State program that fields 36 intercollegiate varsity teams and has an annual budget exceeding $120 million.

"Here, athletics pays for itself and also pays for academic programs at the institution," he said. "The other thing, of course, that I take a look at and see how well we are doing in terms of that notion of balance, which is what I was all about at Vanderbilt, which I am all about here."

He said Ohio State's eighth-ranked football team, which plays rival Michigan on Saturday, is in the top 10 in the nation not only on the field but also in terms of academic progress.

"That's the kind of balance I want to have," he said.

From The Detroit News: http://detnews.com/article/20101124/SPO ... z16DWYAGR9

FLW Buckeye wrote:As long as Gee is taking the anti-playoff stance, he needs to STFU about who makes it into the BCS.

You can't have it both ways.

MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:

FLW Buckeye wrote:As long as Gee is taking the anti-playoff stance, he needs to STFU about who makes it into the BCS.

You can't have it both ways.

Further, programs who won't play Boise need to STFU about their sos. Can't have it both ways x 2.

A home and home would seem to be enough...

Sudden Sam wrote:He may be a complete goober, but I believe his main point is that playing 8 games in a real conference is a bit more demanding than playing 8 junior college squads, then adding a couple of real games.

Killian wrote:Your increased font size and multiple rollyeyes made for a very convincing argument.

Sudden Sam wrote:Okay, let's let every 4 year institution qualify. North Alabama, Montana, and Grand Valley State should be able to play for the BCS title. If they're undefeated, they should be ranked ahead of any 1 or 2 loss Big Ten or SEC or Big 12 schools, right?

I'm ready for a 16 team playoff. That's the only way to go.

Sudden Sam wrote:He may be a complete goober, but I believe his main point is that playing 8 games in a real conference is a bit more demanding than playing 8 junior college squads, then adding a couple of real games.

FLW Buckeye wrote:

Bwahaha...PAC 10 and Tiny 12 honks doing their best Nebraska whine in 3, 2, 1...

Screw_Michigan wrote:But the most important question is: Where does Notre Dame play into this?

Screw_Michigan wrote:

Killian wrote:Your increased font size and multiple rollyeyes made for a very convincing argument.

Your wanna-be alma mater's hijacking of the BCS is about the only thing making ND "credible" on a national level.

Terry in Crapchester wrote:Start with the AQ rules. TCU and Boise State have an easier road than Notre Dame does.

88 wrote: Does anyone think Big XII powerhouses like Oklahoma State or Missouri could make it into the upper half of the Big Ten or SEC?

Sudden Sam wrote:September 3 next year, if Aaron Murray still has A. J. Green to throw to, Georgia will rack up 400 passing yards against Boise State. If Green goes pro after this season, cut that to 375.

Jsc810 wrote:

He's absolutely right about that of course.

88 wrote:

Bizzarofelice wrote:

88 wrote: Does anyone think Big XII powerhouses like Oklahoma State or Missouri could make it into the upper half of the Big Ten or SEC?

So. You don't think Missouri would do well against the top five or six of the big ten? Already beat the number 6 team. mizzou can't hang with the sleepfest of penn st? certainly can handle the stumbling iowa. sparti got past wisconsin but played nobody else.

seriously? get your head out of your ass.

Bizzarofacepalm did not appreciate that my entire post was intended to be sarcastic.

- Marcus Allen

Felix wrote:stop your fucking whining....LSU is not going to make it to the championship game

Dinsdale wrote:

Felix wrote:stop your fucking whining....LSU is not going to make it to the championship game

You're refering to the SEC Championship Game, right?

The one that LSU couldn't edge 5 WHOLE teams out to get into?


But sure, a team that can't rise to the top of a 6 team division deserves a shot at the Trinket Bowl.


Hell, shit worked for LSU a few years ago, why not this season?

Mikey wrote:
This makes LSU obvious choice for a MNC shot since they will then be by far the best 1 loss team and so superior to TCU and Oregon (they play in the SEC after all) that a national consensus will demand that they be ranked #1. The only remaining question is who they will beat in Glendale.

Truman wrote:

Jsc810 wrote:Reached on his cellphone Saturday night, Gee said: “I’m going to New Orleans tomorrow, and Antoine’s is a great restaurant. I think they serve crow, and I’ll be eating my portion of that. T.C.U. played a great game, and they deserved to be recognized for that. Obviously, T.C.U. is a great ball team.”

Felix wrote:

Jsc810 wrote:Reached on his cellphone Saturday night, Gee said: “I’m going to New Orleans tomorrow, and Antoine’s is a great restaurant. I think they serve crow, and I’ll be eating my portion of that. T.C.U. played a great game, and they deserved to be recognized for that. Obviously, T.C.U. is a great ball team.”

so much for the "little sisters of the poor" 0-5 and Gee is still a fucking douchenozzle