Stewart Mandel Fears For The Future Of College Football
MOUTHPIECE Blog // A Chicago-Addled Sports Blog —
... Today, Sports Illustrated college football columnist Stewart Mandel’s name came through the old RSS reader. Hey, Stewart! Let’s just click on through here and see what we’ve got and … oh, no. You’re arguing against a college football playoff? Using the Arizona Cardinals to make your point? Oh no no no no: ...
Ugh, the Cardinals vs. College Football Debate
The Big Lead —
... Really like SI’s Stewart Mandel. Respect Peter King’s football knowledge. A lot of folks swear by the Football Outsiders. But their collective “what does the NFL regular season mean?” question surrounding the Arizona Cardinals improbable trip to the Super Bowl is, in a word, dumb. ...
The Arizona Cardinals could never hack it in college football (hypothetically speaking)
Dr. Saturday —
... different posts and/or articles arguing that the appearance of the Arizona Cardinals in the Super Bowl, after finishing a very meh 9-7 and being outscored by more than 100 points over the last five games of the regular season, reveals the folly of a potential playoff in college football; namely, that it renders everything that came before it moot. First, it was the Georgia blog Get the Picture, then it was AOL's FanHouse and Thursday, it was Stewart Mandel, who ripped the Super Bowl a new one for Sports Illustrated:
Ladies and gentlemen, ...
Bevo's Daily Roundup 1.26.09
Burnt Orange Nation —
... This could be the BCS. The best argument against a BCS playoff is a devalued regular season. SI's Stewart Mandel sees the NFL's Arizona Cardinals as the embodiment of everything wrong with a playoff system. ...
NFL FanHouse Roundtable: Super Bowl vs. the BCS
FanHouse —
... The Cardinals' meteoric rise to the spotlight has prompted some discussion as to how fair the NFL's one-and-done playoff system is compared to the BCS, and if the Cardinals are "bad for the NFL" -- including this article by Stewart Mandel of Sports Illustrated. Naturally, the NFL FanHouse crew had some opinions on the matter. ...
Why Has ESPN Been Curiously Mum on All the Silly New BCS Ventures into Social Media?
The Big Lead —
The BCS is so detested that it felt compelled to start up a twitter account defending itself. And then a website. And the BCS is now on Facebook. Each social network experiment has been a resounding failure, primarily because the BCS is an inadequate, unfair, pathetic end to the college football season. This is nearly unanimously agreed upon, except for a handful of “traditionalists” and the greedy suits who profit handsomely from the dozens of worthless bowl games.
Even the highest profile media “defender” of the BCS, Stewart Mandel of Sports Illustrated, is changing allegiances. ...
