The BCS Beatdown

While it's not yet quite the time to begin the lunacy over which teams get into the NCAA Basketball Money Machine, it's a good time from a prediction from your local blogger at MLAOR. I predict that the BCS schools and their talking-head shills on prime-time TV will tell you every reason imaginable (and much of it is pure imagination) as to why those awful "mid-major" schools should once again be left out. That's OK, up to a point. Let's face it, Missouri State doesn't have the same TV rating cache as their co-resident Mizzou. There are more TV's in Detroit yearning for the usual up-and-down Michigan Wolverines than there are in Southwest Louisiana for the Ragin' Cajuns - no matter what their record.

But I do have a suggestion, and it is just a plea for a little fairness in an otherwise unfair business.

Before ESPN or anybody else starts flogging the "mid majors" for "not playing anybody," let's also smack down the BCS boys who refuse to play the middies out of pure fear. If Creighton, Valpo, Dayton, and Northern Iowa are SO BAD they don't even deserve a chance in the NCAA tournament ruse, then what are we to say about Illinois, UCLA, Purdue, Texas, and so on who REFUSE to engage in home-and-home dates with the middies because of the yellow streak that runs so visibly through them? Let's deduct RPI points for refusal to play "mid majors" and deduct even more for dodging the really good mid majors. Why should Murray State have to beg for games against BCS blowhards who aren't as good as the Racers are?