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BCS For College Hoops? Let the Madness Begin

 
  Talk to any college football fan at this time of the year and most of them will have some sort of gripe with the alphabet.   Not the entire alphabet, mind you. Just three little letters.   BCS.   Show of hands from those that have a problem with computers, opinions, and voting annually deciding the top dog of gridiron glory each season?   (Long pause…..this could be a while…we’re still counting…wow, thought so…OK then, moving on.)   I mean, if collegiate champions can be decided by voting, then I don’t see why we can’t extend that to the pros and put the long-suffering Cubs fans out of their misery?   College football has a problem with the current system they use to crown a champion when the list of schools (Utah, Texas, and USC) that have a beef over the title game participants is longer than the list of teams playing for the championship (Oklahoma and Florida).   So with that line ... (link)

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