Dear BCS,
Are you watching Clemson/West Virginia? How bout Butler/ODU? Both have already been more competitive, and more exciting than 97% of all of the BCS Bowl Games this year. Even the 4 “Round 1” games, that weren’t even important enough to alter the set up of March Madness Brackets, were more fun to watch. And they featured teams like VCU, Arkansas-Little Rock, UNC Ashville, and the San Antonio chapter of the University of Texas.
You are watching these games dressed head to toe in green, because you just loooove St. Patricks day aren’t you? It makes it ok to make horrible decisions that make no sense, so you feel slightly better about yourselves don’t it? And your lack of ability to produce quality matchups is just like all the drunken hookups that will be going on in public places by 10pm, isn’t it? With all parties involved wanting to forget it as soon as it’s over.
Well BCS, try and keep it together today. At the very least pay attention to the excitement and unbridled enthusiasm that comes with the opening of the NCAA tournament. Look at how much fun people have arguing over their brackets. Pay special attention to all the folks who couldn’t care less about college basketball, but for a few weeks are glued to TVs to see if their brackets been busted.
After the ho-hum bowl season you gave us over the winter you really should be trying to stay sober today. Take the big green shoes off, wash the shamrocks off your cheeks, press pause on Pogue’s Greatest Hits and take some notes.
Think about how many bowl games went unwatched. Compare that with the fact that every minute of every game during March Madness is watched. Not because people like basketball more than football, if anything college football is the handsome older brother and college basketball is the awkward younger brother with braces on his legs and thick horn-rimmed glasses. But eventually the younger brother figured out a better way to get girls and now you are left scratching your head, wondering why, with all your charm and good looks, you are stuck sleeping with fat chicks.
You need a tournament like this. We want you to have a tournament like this.
Lock it up.
Sincerely,
Corey Maloney
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