Missouri Fans: Blame the Rose Bowl, not the Orange Bowl

If you want to see a lot EDUCATED sports fan get pissed, yeah take Mizzou. College football has alot of tradition based decisions. This was one, was it fair? Probably not but it was the right college football thing to do. LSU in the championship is unjust. Nothing is fair this year just try to enjoy the games as much as you can.

Agreed. Only an NCAA National Championship would have a unanimous agreement from the fans. One of the BCS's mission is to promote the traditional football schools. Their programs have been drained recently given that top preps from their respective locales are opting more and more for west coast schools. Look at Nebraska, Notre Dame, it's simply pathetic. I hope the BCS can help revitalize DI-A college football in the midwest.

I agree with some of what you've said, but I don't think that the recent lack of success at either Nebraska or Notre Dame has anything to do with the west coast vs. the midwest. Notre Dame has been struggling for almost 20 years, and 95% of it has to do with poor coaching hires and, even more importantly, very strict academic standards preventing many top recruits from considering the school. Don't you think that Nebraska could've been hurt by the retirement of Dr. Tom Osborne, one of the greatest coaches of all time, in 1997? They had a strong program under their next coach, Solich, before they, like many schools have been known to do, hastily pulled the plug and installed a much worse coach, Bill Callahan. They just fired him, and with Osborne as the new AD, expect amazing things from them again. I promise, the west coast has nothing to do with it. Doesn't seem to be hurting Ohio State, Florida, LSU, Oklahoma, etc. etc.

College football is clearly changing and some schools are not adapting to that change nearly as well as others. College football used to be about the running back and trying to pound the ball. When that was the case, the Big Ten was king because Midwest high school football provided with the best athletes within this system. however, over the past decade, the game has moved towards a more wide open offense with speed and passing figuring much more into the equation. Several conferences, but in particular the ACC and PAC10, saww the light first and benefitted. More recently the Big 12 and SEC have begun to change. the Big 10, however, has refused to change. This is why Ohio St. will be destroyed by a faster, more athletic LSU team. This is why they were beat by Illinois earlier in the year. This is why they were crushed by Florida last year. Zook at Illinois might be the weight under which the Big 10 begins to change. nebraska tried to change, but they hired a bad NFL coach to try and get the job done!

So the Rose Bowl picked Illinois. The Orange Bowl still picked Kansas over Missouri. I don't see why Missouri fans should blame the Rose Bowl for that.

sweathog wrote:

I don't see why Missouri fans should blame the Rose Bowl for that.

The only thing Missouri should be blaming is the person in the mirror.

They held their own fate in the hands and they blew it.

There is nobody to blame but themselves.

ttttttttttttt wrote:

The only thing Missouri should be blaming is the person in the mirror.

They held their own fate in the hands and they blew it.

There is nobody to blame but themselves.

In order to blow it, they would have had to have a shot at winning that game, and really, they didn't. Some horrible ghost pass interference calls kept them in it in the 1st half but the better team clearly pulled away. They didn't blow it because they never had a shot at "it". Beaten twice by the best team in the conference is respectable, more than what Kansas can say for their season.