The Bowl Championship Series (BCS) is a system used by the College Bowl owners to determine which teams should play in which college bowl. Before BCS the Rose Bowl was considered at one time to be the final determination of which team is the national champion.Under old rules the sports writers, coaches , and others made this decision using real data and secretive subjectivity to categorize teams and make the matchups. BCS added a "computer algorithm" to add more logic (and mystery) to this process to legitimize the outcomes. With "sports junkie" activity now in Congress and preferences expressed by the President himself, it seems that a congesssional inquiry may reveal how much "truth" there is in all this and why a "bracketology based" extensive playoff season is needed.
While sports fans debate the merits of all this, one can only imagine how this may affect the grades of players in college who are supposed to be studying. With a prolonged season they may never go to class. It is also questionable if the existing system or any improvements would satisfy the most rabid fans, but nobody asked them. Sports elites make all the rules and apply their "black box" formula to choose the champion. No voice for fans who pay for all this and add to the enjoyment of watching the game.
American Idol is a very popular variety show and entertains millions of viewers worldwide. Ambitious, dreamy contestants come from all over and go through a series of selection filters in the audition process months before the airing of the live TV program.This practice eliminates many "artists" from the list before the shows multi night airings with procedures designed to bring the best short list to the TV program.Over a few weeks these finalists are weened weekly until the final show when the winner is selected.
The process, as depicted, allows viewers to vote with their cell phones by calling a unique number for each contestant to express their choice. The purist may question how each vote or cell call is treated when multiple calls from the same cell or phone number are made.It is also bewildering how the computer/phone handling system may track such a large volume and tabulate the results without losing a call (vote), to say nothing of suspicions regarding the audit trail of this complex. The true skeptic wonders where the fraud begins and ends. There are ways to block calls made from the same cell or phone number after the first call placing the the single allocated vote. THere are firms that can certify the accuracy and integrity of such a system to assure the most suspicious, like myself.
But , hey, this is show biz and entertainment. Not one man one vote.Not a democracy.
A Voter Referendum process for Connecticut would allow the voting public to "up or down" a proposed law or change to an existing law as is common practice in many states.Voter registration lists are used to authenticate only those allowed to vote. The process is clearly defined, accurate and can be tracked to insure integrity.One man, one vote, for all. We don't need to invent or purchase anything to make this happen.
There is no better way to get the input of all to determine the will of the people and their wishes to make Connecticut a better place to live. No elites, no filters, no questions of integrity, all data and information is transparent and is considered by all to make the decision.We don't need elites to decide what we need and dictate that through arrogant laws.
In the 2009 legislative session when a Voter Referendum bill was proposed, no public hearing was held and the bill died. This 2010 session has seen extensive discretionary debate over Sunday sales of liquor that could have been applied towards this important topic.
Hey, you could call your legislator and tell him what you want. Will he listen?
For additional comments on this topic please view my blog history;
1. April 1, 2009, Who Speaks for Connecticut?
2. March 21, 2009, Voice of Anonymity
3. March 24, 2009, Term is Up!
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16 comments:
hoops got the action calhoon put them huskees on map burn that 3 pt play midcoort shot. cant tell whats goin on football. goto bolls cant tell how get there.
how they boot my man alex off idol. cant figur. my girl only looks at chicks so told her im stickin with the guys. those pols got lot to lern.
bcs is only thing that saves us from college prez. since when shld college prez be in charge of bowl games. dont no how bcs got it past these guys but never give it back!!!!!!!!!!!
thats my gripe bout idol, want to know the votes, how we know the back end geeks arent riggin system??
hey when everyone is talkin about you, you must be doing something right. BCS is run by jocks who know their stuff, care about getting the best teams to bowls. how about we put them in charge of college campuses??? maybe something would improve!!!!!
hate the bcs. why is it every other sport has a playoff but those super smart guys running the schools cant do it?? bcs is better than there dumb bowl games but they shuldnt be allowed to stop playoffs. your right, time fans had a say. right more sports cheked yor other stuff.
i mean like idol voting fun easy, dont no sports, politics a drag, dont no what their talkin bout, who nos how they get winners.
I'm preparing my Sunday sermon and checked your blog. A perfect idea for a sermon about what is truth! Your posts are distinctive. I have to admit never having thought about the issues you assemble. Again your pulse on contemporary society against the intellectual perspective quite fascinating.
God Bless.
get those football teams playing each other, down with the geeks hiding behind there computers. college ball is a mans game head to head!!!! had enuf with both the geeks and colleges, free college ball, playoff is only way to go. Who cares, players certainly dont, bout classes.
get off the BCS case, teams have to prove themselves every game, every stat counts, not just the coaches and sport writers. where do you think all the criticism comes from? they just want it the old way where they get to decide, we all know theyre cozy with the college bigwigs.
so if the bcs is so great, why dont we run the rest of football, baseball, hockey with this great computer in the sky. funny how no one is talkin bout that. get real, play a game, we got fantasy leagues, thats enough computers. microsoft has done enuf hurt to the world, keep them out of college ball.
let them play, the oregon ducks will beat them all, goducks.com. worse thing i ever did was move to conn. no good sports, cant make a livin.
so like the crimson tide shldn't had to play longhorns???? i mean like either the computers should do it or stay out of it. if the blackboxes can pick who plays, why dont they pick who wins??? who needs the game???
stop raggin on bcs. where wood uconn be without it? now it plays in bowls every year. otherwise we'd be playin high school bowl. go huskies.
need to talk about the problems with ncaa brackets. it goes uncriticized. the pac10 year after year is overextended through the regions. what a surprise, does poorly. sure you have a playoff but the deck is stacked, most of all against pac10.
agree with last comment, if they used the BCS computer to compile the brackets the NCAA might have a first class tourney. too bad now bunch of in/out of it guys sittin in a room deciding all team fate. bracket position is almost destiny!!!!!
hey man how is it that same colleges that send b-ball teams to the regional bracket sites cant send there football players to playoff, get ya, bracket sites???? what a scam, those college bigwigs get all high mitey with kids in classes tests when it comes to football but dont say word when its basketball. when is someone going to take them on???? keep bloggin finally someone in ct is talkin bout whats important.
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