Jude
continued from page 5
People would actually be signing in the street, in the
rain even — I guarantee it. All because of the TV-shower.
Now I don’t like to boast, but this is the great
est invention since the beginning of the millen
nium. The TV-shower saves time and money. Pe
riod.
The ultimate goal of the TV-shower, of course, is
time management. Human nature propels us to try
to squeeze as much as we can into 24 hours. But
there’s only so much one can do. That’s why we
have combine some of our daily chores/necessi
ties.
My roommate brushes his teeth in the shower.
Aside from being the strangest, and grossest, thing
I’ve heard of, I guess the shower-brush is a time
saver. But it just doesn’t cut it for me, nor does it
save enough time. Besides, brushing your teeth in
the shower only complicates what is supposed to
be the most invigorating part of the day. The show
er should be fun, and nobody enjoys brushing
their teeth.
Watching TV in the shower, though, now that’s a
novel concept.
If I could only figure out a way to eat breakfast
while watching “SportsCenter” in the shower —
wow! — life would be perfect.
E-mail sports editor Adam Jude
at adamjude@dailyemerald.com.
Coaches ponder fate of BCS system
By Mike Tulumello
East Valley Tribune
MESA, Ariz. (KRT) — If you talk to
some of the nation’s best-known college
football coaches about the current system
to pick a game featuring the nation’s top
two teams at season’s end, you can come
up with one general consensus:
The coaches agree the Bowl Champi
onship Series system didn’t work last sea
son. That’s when Oregon, ranked No. 2 in
the major polls, was bypassed for the so
called national title game vs. Miami in fa
vor of Nebraska — a team that didn’t even
win its own conference — because of the
Cornhuskers’ higher computer rankings.
Discussions are under way to tweak the
system to prevent a recurrence, though noth
ing has been finalized.
But if you try to come up with a consen
sus for change, be it small or large, or to
keep the system basically the same, you
come up empty.
Some coaches, such as UCLA’s Bob
Toledo, favor a postseason tournament or
playoff involving as many as eight teams.
“Let’s play it on the field like every other
sport does... and then nobody has to com
plain about anything,” said Toledo, who
was among a host of coaches in town for a
golf outing sponsored by the Fiesta Bowl,
which will host the Big Game at the end of
the upcoming season.
Others, like Mississippi State’s Jackie
Sherrill, suggest perfection can never be
assured.
“If there’s one out of eight or 10 years
that it doesn’t work, then those are pretty
good odds,” Sherrill said.
“There’s been a lot of thought put into
it,” Sherrill said. “The good thing is that
it’s controlled, managed and run by foot
ball people.”
Agrees Washington State’s Mike Price,
“Let’s leave it alone. I’m not much of a
tweaker or changer. If you change it every
year, you never really know what you’ve got.
Keep it the way it is and work through it. ”
Along similar lines, Iowa State’s Dan
McCarney said, “I think they will con
tinue to evaluate it and make minor ad
justments.”
Michigan State’s Bobby Williams said
he opposes any change that would harm
the current bowl set-up. But he acknowl
edges, “Based on what happened last year,
something needs to happen.
“You’ve got one team that was second
in the major polls that didn’t get to play for
the national championship. The polls
should carry a lot of weight.
“With the current system, there’s too
much room for error.
“I’m not advocating a playoff. The bowl
system is nice the way it is.
“But somehow, some way, we need to
come up with a better way to get the two
top teams to play for the national cham
pionship.”
Wisconsin’s Barry Alvarez thinks that in
future cases, “If the polls agree, why use
computers?”
More substantively, Alvarez says, “I
wouldn’t mind having one more game,” in
which two teams play for No. 1 at the end
of the traditional bowl season.
Even Sherrill, who seems to have no
problem with the current set-up, sees a
playoff coming.
He foresees a four-team playoff involv
ing the champions of four major confer
ences: the SEC, the Pac-10 and the Big 10,
with the ACC nosing out the Big 12 for the
other spot because of more desirable TV
markets.
Says Sherrill, “Will we have a playoff
one day? Yes.”
©2002, East Valley Tribune. Distributed
by Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services.
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