President Elect Obama came out strongly against the current college football system in an interview with 60 Minutes last week.
For those of you who don't know, the college football national championship is determined by means of sheep's entrails, sophisticated computer programs, and tarot cards. President Obama disagrees, and thinks a tournament should be established.
This had been a longstanding bone of contention in the college football world. Everyone wants a tournament, except the only people who are responsible for it, who are making oodles of money the way things are now.
Personally, I see the value of a tournament-like any sports fan, I can appreciate a clear, relatively controversy free champ.
But in general, I am against it, primarily because these are supposed to be amateur athletes. The fact that we do not have a well designed championship is not a great tragedy.
Obama actually supported it?
ReplyDeleteHe sometimes is weak-willed, like when he caved in to Howard Dean's stupid attempt to disenfranchise Michigan's Democratic primary voters, and refused to even put his name on the ballot.
He came out and said he favored a playoff system on 60 Minutes, like I said.
ReplyDeleteI don't understand the primary system, really, at all. It's deeply stupid on a number of levels, and it is a deeply rooted case of "it's always been this way", which I hate.
Why shouldn't Michigan be able to put it's primary where it damn well pleases? Why can't we have regional super primaries, so we dont have Iowa and New Hampshire playing disproportionate roles? Or even do both-I/NH on the first Tuesday in January, then regional ones after that? So even if Michigan was part of a IN/MI/IL/WI grouping, or something, you'd still get a ton of attention.
All that being said, Michigan was warned, "Move and you lose your place." They moved, and they lost their place.
"All that being said, Michigan was warned, "Move and you lose your place." They moved, and they lost their place."
ReplyDeleteThey got their place back in the end. Anyone would have known that in a standoff between popular Democratic candidates and the DNC, that the candidates would win. Hillary knew this. Obama didn't. It's the one place I can think of where Hillary seemed more seasoned/experienced than Obama.
That's true. The whole thing was silly. It was ludicrous to think that Michigan and Florida would just be disincluded.
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