I came across a blog post by the alumni director of my alma mater San Diego State today. It’s at http://sdsublog.wordpress.com/2010/05/19/alumni-director-rants-about-the-bcs/ in case you care to peruse it. In his blog, he rants about the BCS. This of course is a popular thing to do. The BCS is not the world’s most precise and fair system for determining who is the best college football team each year. It does an OK but not great job at it in fact. The BCS rewards the haves of the college football world and anyone who has the gall to break into this exclusive club usually tends to be pushed aside. Teams like Boise State (who now has powerhouse teams afraid to play them for fear Boise will make them look bad), Utah, TCU and a handful of other teams want to join in on the BCS party. Orrin Hatch, the long time Utah senator has asked for an investigation of the BCS. I’m all for it if it does some good.
What I’m amused about is how an individual representing San Diego State can rant about it. I mean San Diego State hasn’t been a powerhouse in football in about oh three decades or so. Long, long ago in a universe far away, the fighting Aztecs had some great teams. But in the last three decades, they’ve mostly been mediocre. I attended a SDSU game last fall and one of the fans pointed out to me that my Aztecs haven’t been to any bowl game since 1998!
Now the alumni director is not demanding that SDSU be allowed to the party but instead makes the claim that other schools in the Mountain West Conference (the league SDSU is in) and the Western Athletic Conference (the league SDSU is in) with strong programs SHOULD be allowed to compete with the big boys. Valid point and one that’s been raised by many others.
But I want to know how in heck he has the right to make them? Since the halcyon days of the 60s and 70s, SDSU hasn’t been very good. Their last winning season was that ’98 season, where they went to a minor bowl game. They had a handful of winning seasons in the 80s and 90s, but that’s it. They had Marshall Faulk for crying out loud for two seasons and couldn’t win with him. In the last few years they’ve generally gone 4-8, 5-7, 2-9 or thereabouts. Maybe their latest coach Brady Hoke can turn things around, but I’m not holding my breath. So it’s not like San Diego State is going to be considered one of the “elite teams” of the MWC. Now if they magically turn things around this season (stranger things have happened), then they might have a right to talk. But until then, SDSU and their alumni director need to think of ways to improve THEIR team, not worry about how the BCS makes decisions on who gets to “join” their exclusive “club.”
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