The 2008 election is not over. While many Americans believe the two year campaigning process ended the first week of November, there is still a long way to go.
The politicking is just heating up. From Los Angeles to Alabama to Texas to Texas Tech to Oklahoma and Florida.
The art of politicking has reached a new level in college football when it comes to the BCS.
Texas head coach Mack Brown has been acting more like John McCain than a football coach these days. Brown, winner of a national championship, has been during radio and TV interview pleading with voters to allow his No. 2 Texas Longhorns a spot in the BCS title game.
Cool, calm and collected Pete Carroll, two-time national champion, does not even understand the BCS process anymore.
"I don't understand how the thing works, I don't really know," he said. "What is the criteria of the process? Is it to pick the team that has the best season, that has the season that you like the most and feel best about voting for? Or is it the best team at the end of the year, the team that would win a playoff system if you did have it?" he said.
Bob Stoops, winner of a national championship at Oklahoma, has been doing a little bit of begging of his own.
“The logic of whether to put us in front of Texas? If you can’t do that because they beat us, then you’ve got to keep Texas Tech in front of Texas. What’s logical for one is logical for the other,” Stoops said.
Where has college football gone when coaches have to brown nose voters and a computer for a shot to win the a national title.
Shouldn't this national championship picture be decided on the gridiron instead of an athletic director's office on a college campus?
To get their point across Texas spent thousands of dollars to have signs printed with "45-35" inscribed on them so fans at the Longhorn-Aggie game could flash them to the voters during the nationally televised game about the Longhorn win over the Sooners during the Red River Shootout. It did not stop there. Texas then paid to have a plane fly over T. Boone Pickens Stadium during the Oklahoma State-Oklahoma game so voters could get another reminder of the 45-35 score.
There are more holes in this BCS saga than a hanging chad in a shady Florida ballot box.
It is one thing to have our next president decided by a vote, but should we have a college football champion decided by voters with severe agendas who need to be kissed up to by coaches and players?
Why is college football the only sport where teams have to worry about how much they win by, who they play when they win, who the other team play and how much the other team won by in their previous contest?
Why is major college football the only sport that determines who play for the national title by computer programmers, coaches, former players, media members and athletic directors?
Why can' t college football be like everybody else and have the conference champions square off in the playoffs?
But that would be too much like right.
Normally the public turns to sports to get away from politics. It seems with every passing day, college football fans don't know if they are watching ESPN or Fox News election coverage.
The politicking is just heating up. From Los Angeles to Alabama to Texas to Texas Tech to Oklahoma and Florida.
The art of politicking has reached a new level in college football when it comes to the BCS.
Texas head coach Mack Brown has been acting more like John McCain than a football coach these days. Brown, winner of a national championship, has been during radio and TV interview pleading with voters to allow his No. 2 Texas Longhorns a spot in the BCS title game.
Cool, calm and collected Pete Carroll, two-time national champion, does not even understand the BCS process anymore.
"I don't understand how the thing works, I don't really know," he said. "What is the criteria of the process? Is it to pick the team that has the best season, that has the season that you like the most and feel best about voting for? Or is it the best team at the end of the year, the team that would win a playoff system if you did have it?" he said.
Bob Stoops, winner of a national championship at Oklahoma, has been doing a little bit of begging of his own.
“The logic of whether to put us in front of Texas? If you can’t do that because they beat us, then you’ve got to keep Texas Tech in front of Texas. What’s logical for one is logical for the other,” Stoops said.
Where has college football gone when coaches have to brown nose voters and a computer for a shot to win the a national title.
Shouldn't this national championship picture be decided on the gridiron instead of an athletic director's office on a college campus?
To get their point across Texas spent thousands of dollars to have signs printed with "45-35" inscribed on them so fans at the Longhorn-Aggie game could flash them to the voters during the nationally televised game about the Longhorn win over the Sooners during the Red River Shootout. It did not stop there. Texas then paid to have a plane fly over T. Boone Pickens Stadium during the Oklahoma State-Oklahoma game so voters could get another reminder of the 45-35 score.
There are more holes in this BCS saga than a hanging chad in a shady Florida ballot box.
It is one thing to have our next president decided by a vote, but should we have a college football champion decided by voters with severe agendas who need to be kissed up to by coaches and players?
Why is college football the only sport where teams have to worry about how much they win by, who they play when they win, who the other team play and how much the other team won by in their previous contest?
Why is major college football the only sport that determines who play for the national title by computer programmers, coaches, former players, media members and athletic directors?
Why can' t college football be like everybody else and have the conference champions square off in the playoffs?
But that would be too much like right.
Normally the public turns to sports to get away from politics. It seems with every passing day, college football fans don't know if they are watching ESPN or Fox News election coverage.
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