Alright, I've had all about I can stands and I can't stands no more...everyone in the media is just absolutely killing the Pac-10--including people like Colin Cowherd and our local show on 1080, which by the way, is captained by the biggest pair of ass-clowns I've ever heard, hands down. I mean, Isaac Ropp and Big Suk are by far the most unoriginal, redundant, trite, moronic assholes in all of sports commentary...and I'll let you in on a little secret: generally sports commentary is bad; it is the lowest of the low of all forms of journalism, which in this day and age, is also atrocious. There is no way to accurately describe how truly bad it is without unleashing a volley of adjectives, such as: bandwagon, white bread, classless, ultraemotional, substanceless, waffling, narrow-minded, shallow, repetitive, unintelligent, and gullible. Let's not forget, it is this media genre that gave us the term "playmaker." What the fuck does that even mean? If we are to take it for face value, then my 9 year old cousin is a playmaker. I honestly cannot think of a more boneheaded term. All it does is allow some fucking moron sports commentator who has absolutely no qualifications other than that he used to play said sport, avoid taking any creative responsibility for actually analyzing his medium in an intelligent manner. I want to rip the testicles off of Mark Schlereth, just so I can listen to the meathead they trotted in to sit next to him, who will no doubt be wearing some ridiculous suit say, "oooh. Now, that guy's a real playmaker."
Anyway, geting back to the original point, look, I'll admit, the Pac-10 is down (down is another moronic term meaning that the teams aren't as good, allowing the idiots another escape from real analysis of individual teams) this year, no doubt. But lets not act like a bunch of lemmings and act rashly which the sports media is so apt to do--last year I recall many commentators saying that the Pac-10 was only behind the SEC in terms of overall conference strength, and lets not forget that since 2002, the only teams to beat USC (other than Texas in 2006), who is without a doubt the best college football program in this century so far, are Pac-10 teams. The Big 12 is admittedly great this year, but they have at least 4 Heisman candidates at quarterback, by far the most impactive position on the field. Put those guys on Pac-10 teams, and suddenly we're fucking great. And this is to totally skip over the fact that no one plays defense in that conference, and none of those teams really played anyone significant in their out of conference schedule (they were 2-1 against ranked teams; wins against Illinois and TCU; loss against Central Florida). If you have questions about the out of conference schedule played by Pac-10 teams, see my earlier post.
The only team in the SEC that hasn't lost is Alabama...so I don't see how that makes any of those other teams better than USC, and the fact is, it really helps your conference when everyone starts out ranked (at the beginning of the year, six SEC teams were in the top 25), and then plays no one difficult out of conference for the first three games; which is basically the same exact thing the Big 12 did.
You see, the real problem with college football, is that teams are ranked at the beginning of the season based purely on speculation, the previous season, and popularity. This allows the conferences that are media darlings (such as the SEC), the luxury of avoiding having to schedule difficult opponents in their out of conference schedule, which thereby makes their conference look more powerful than it actually is because everyone can just pile up a shitload of wins before starting conference play. Conversly, it forces conferences that are not so popular (like the Pac-10, sans USC) to schedule difficult games, often times going cross country, in order to gain recognition. Then, when they lose those games, and everyone goes back to the conference and beats the crap out of each other, you end up with a bunch of good football teams that have mediocre records. Hence the Pac-10 gets killed, the Big 12 is great, and the SEC is still really good, according to the faggots.
In any case, I'll be really interested to see what happens when it comes to bowl season. Oh, and do me a favor would you? Email 1080 the fan and tell them to get rid of those ass-clowns.
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