BCS Controversy

There is a lot of anti-BCS ranting going on and a very funny example of this referencing WWII can be found here.

While funny, it is flawed and playoff utopians that think abandoning the BCS are merely fooling themselves. Here is the proper analogy to WWII...


WWII ENDS: U.S. SET TO FACE SOVIET UNION IN “COLD WAR” MATCHUP BUT AXIS FANS CALLING FOR EIGHT NATION PLAYOFF
By Darren Guerra staff writer

Last week the United States knocked Japan out of WWII with a long range aerial attack the likes the world has never seen. The American leader Truman said, “I knew if we through a bomb against their defense it would work; I just didn’t realize how devastating it would be…Japan just wasn’t prepared for our attack. They never knew what hit them.” Now that the U.S. has scored decisive victories against Italy, Germany, and Japan consecutively, it is poised for a one on one showdown for world dominance with the Soviet Union emerging as the winner in the East.

However what was expected to be a showdown between the world’s two remaining superpowers has become embroiled in controversy. Citizens in Germany, Italy, Japan, and even Great Britain, France, and Belgium are pushing for an eight nation playoff to determine world dominance. “It isn’t fair that the two most powerful nations get to square off in the Cold War! I mean with a second chance we might have developed the bomb first!” responded a German leader as he pounded his fist on the podium. There does indeed seem to be a growing world consensus that including more nations in the final showdown would be more inclusive and more interesting.

Some Italian leaders have pointed out that it isn’t fair that the larger more prosperous nations always seem to produce better armies. While, Italy’s strength of schedule has been called into question for their road win against Ethopia, it hasn’t stopped them from complaining about not getting a chance at being ranked number one.

Germany on the other hand has faced some tough opponents such as Great Britain and Russia but they too have taken criticism for scheduling Belgium, Holland, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and France. “Sure France let us walk right into Paris, but they used to be a formidable power, I remember a Napoleon fella who did some damage a few years back that should count for something!” fumed a German spokesman. Japanese leaders were hopeful that a playoff could be instituted thereby resurrecting their chances at world domination. A German source said that Chancellor Hitler was not issuing statements because his “mind was blown” at the unfairness. Similarly, Italy’s Mussolini was reportedly tied up and unavailable for comment, but Italian sympathies surely favored a playoff.

Truman continued to make the case for the U.S. v. Soviet matchup, “We have worked hard to get where we are, we have beaten the best, why should we open the process up now to nations who clearly have weak schedules and have suffered devastating defeats? Where is the fairness in that? Would our boys have fought so hard at Anzio, Normandy, the Ardennes, Midway, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa had we known that it wouldn’t count for anything in the end? I don’t think so. The two strongest nations will face each other and that is the way it should be.” Truman’s arguments only seemed to anger German, Italian, and Japanese fans all the more. Axis fans say they will never rest until they get a playoff. Story developing…
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