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Among the top-notch free agents, the successful acquisitions always seem to occur when the star is a piece of the puzzle instead of being the entire puzzle. Manny Ramirez and Vladimir Guerrero, for example, both made playoff-caliber teams even better...
Might Murphy be different? Sure. But with an athletic department millions of dollars in debt and unlikely to provide the resources necessary to compete against the national powerhouses he’d face on a weekly basis, it seems unlikely. Harvard may not be bowl-eligible or even playoff-eligible, but its program does, despite its faults, provide Murphy with a chance to win. Indiana simply doesn’t. What kind of a gift is that, Santa...
...double this Saturday as the Grizzlies take on a ridiculously potent Sam Houston State offense that boasts Payton Award finalist quarterback Dustin Long, who has thrown for over 4,000 yards and 38 touchdowns this season. He leads a squad that has posted 89 points in its first two playoff games, including 21 in a ridiculous fourth-quarter comeback against Eastern Washington...
Sticking with college football, let’s move quickly to the Bowl Championship Series. Since the inception of the Bowl Coalition in 1992, the attempt to bring the top two teams in the country together in order to decide a playoff-less national title has been completely successful three times (1995, 1999, 2002). That’s 23 percent success rate, which is worse than a few government programs...
There’s a reason why Division I-AA, Division II and Division III use a playoff system (despite the tremendous expenditure that has to be undertaken to transport players to nationwide sites). By implementing a playoff system, you push the debate about fringe teams from Nos. 2-4 to 8-10 or 16-20, depending on whether it is an eight- or 16-team tournament...