TyPenn613

I agree with much of what has been mentioned above, but the biggest part of the article I think has been overlooked (mainly because it's something I have preached for years). My opinion falls in the minority in terms of most college sports fans, so feel free to take aim at me here. I'm no proponent of the BCS, but the college playoff systems are equally if not more so ridiculous than the system that college football uses. Is the BCS fair? Maybe not 100%, but is it more accurate when compared with March Madness or the Frozen Four? I'd argue yes. The biggest part of the article I see not mentioned here is the fact that it should be a best of three series. Obviously that's hard to do with 16 teams (Frozen Four) and impossible for 68 teams (March Madness). However, it's the only way to get a more accurate result. For those who follow college basketball, how often do the top two teams face off for a National Title? Cinderella stories are nice for the fans to follow, but in reality it's simply an undeserving team playing an overrated game. The Frozen Four is the same story, albeit it not nearly as bad as March Madness. If any of you had to name who you considered the 5 best college hockey teams in the nation two months ago, how many would have included Michigan or Duluth? Moreover, how many would have included both of team? This article points out that hockey is the longest major college sports season, and you could argue that any of the conference winners had the best season overall. Yet one bad game in the postseason negates everything that these teams did during the season. Why? The Sioux played a pathetic game against Michigan to get knocked out, but was that anything remotely close to the team that dominated the WCHA this year? Michigan picked up one goal early where Dell was screened and saw the puck late, and for that the season is over? UND plays in tougher conference and won almost 78% of their games this year. Michigan plays in a weaker of the two, and won only about 64% of their games, but one play dictated the results because the Frozen Four uses a simple one game knockout. The 'Any Given Day' monkier can continue to be overused, but in the end it's not accurate. The results will be biased here, and I apologize to the Duluth fan above in advance, but if UND and Duluth were to play 10 games against each other, who would any of you put your money on? Props to Duluth on the National Title, but does it really deserve to overshadow a UND team who won the WCHA season outright, won the Final Five (a very trivial tournament in my opinion), and beat Duluth two out of three times this year with the lone loss being in overtime? How is the team who finished 3rd in the WCHA season, and knocked out in the first round of the Final Five by a bottom feeder team this year suddenly deserve more recognition? I don't want to dive too much into numbers, but I don't think many would have argued at the end of the season that the Sioux weren't the best team in the nation. Nevertheless, they only won 78% of their games. Take that average, and the odds of winning 4 games in a row is about 37%. Those odds are higher than most teams, that doesn't change the fact that those odds are very low for a team that was considered to be outplaying everyone only a few weeks earlier. I'll shut up now, but the point is that a best of three would likely cure a lot of the problems by eliminating a lot of the one game upsets like Colorado College over Boston College or Michigan over North Dakota. Unfortunately, the more these tournaments expand, the far less likely anything like this will take place. Say what you will about the BCS (and I do believe there should be a playoff), but I don't recall a BCS season ending where no one thought either team deserved to be playing for a National Title. Fair? Maybe not. Better than the massive playoffs setup in other sports? That's up for debate. I apologize for the great length here.

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Thanks guys for being so classy. As a Rutgers alum living in Grand Forks, it's very nice to see.

So based on reading this thread, being that I have Dish Network only, I'm out of luck, correct?