Posting something here is the only logical move
by Xon on Sep 17, 2011 12:00 AM PDT
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PrintGreetings, people of OBNUG. I want to rant just a bit, and I'd love to hear what the Bronco Nation thinks as well. First, who am I? I am a diehard Georgia fan. I was at the 2005 game in person. I've moved around but now I'm back in Georgia (which is my home state, and I did obtain my graduate degree from UGA for the record). Being a Georgia fan used to be simple enough, but this isn't a simple world. Anyway, this isn't about our struggles.
The Boise State football program is the real deal. They do it the right way, they are amazingly good not only at developing players, but at turning over and reloading quickly. If I were a Nebraska fan, I would somehow be allowed to applaud you guys for the extremely impressive performance you put on two weeks ago. But in the SEC, I don't think they let me do that. So, I'm kinda here on the downlow. You guys are really, really good. I'd still have to hear all the arguments at the end of the season based on the resumes of all the contenders (that's only logical, right?), but I have no difficulty saying that in principle the Broncos are a team that could win a BCS championship game if they had the opportunity to play in one. I sincerely, strenuously hope that any coming realignment of conferences does not screw your program over. Because we would all be the poorer for it.
But hey, speaking of being screwed over, my rant after the jump?
Another big piece of self-identity for me is my politics. I am a diehard libertarian. Actually, really I am an anarchist. So I love me some free markets, private property (I'm a market anarchist, not an old school socialist-style anarchist), etc. I hate bureaucracy. But the NCAA really bums me out, because it is a private entity. In theory, I'd like to say they run their show in a way that puts government agencies to shame. But can I say that? No, no I cannot.
After Bill Gates (barely) managed to fight off the anti-trust police in the late 1990s, he reportedly said the lesson he had learned was that he "needs to start paying more attention to what goes on in Washington." In other words, in this system we've got, you have to invest in lobbyists to defend your interests, or else your competitors will. When the pols look for a "public interest" issue to demagogue on, they'll go after someone who has left themselves unprotected. They'll pick out someone to be the "bad guy" in the press who does not have a large lobbying presence already.
One gets the impression that the NCAA works pretty much the same way. If you are a smaller, less wealthy athletic department, then you have little ability to sting the NCAA through public pressure and billable hours. Therefore, when they want to "make an example" of someone, they will choose you. I think we're at the point now where this sort of wickedness is transparent to anyone who is reasonable and not dependent upon the NCAA's corporate offices for their paycheck. In any event, I just wanted to let you guys know: I see it, and I am sorry. A lot of us see it, and we are all sorry.
I'd say "blow up the NCAA and start over," but that would accelerate a big-program hegemony in the brave new world, and would hasten the day that schools like Boise get left out in the cold. As a Georgia fan, when the NCAA investigates a nonsense allegation brought up on a celebrity gossip site, and as a result had a player reveal his bank statements to them to prove his innocence, and then goes after him over something else those bank statements revealed, I get pretty pissed off and I think "let's try something new." Sic semper tyrannis, and all that. But as a Georgia fan I also have the reasonable expectation that my beloved team will always have somewhere to land, even in the most apocalypitc scenario. I honestly don't know what a Boise fan should want at a moment like this.
Anyway, I hope you appeal and get the scholarships and lost practices reinstated. This is an injustice.
Nice job against Toledo tonight. Go win 'em all and give the country something to argue about, as always. (With our luck, we'll run the table and win the SEC, but with 2 losses will be the first SEC champ since 2005 to be left out of the title game...gee, who was the SEC champ in 2005? Oh, damn....)
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You sir
are a classy gentleman. Thank you! I just hope enough of the people pulling the puppet strings think like you do. And obviously you’re going to have all of Bronco Nation cheering for Georgia to do just what you described…with the minor caveat that WE make it into the title game first ;)
by trigga mike! on Sep 17, 2011 3:45 AM PDT via mobile reply actions
XON,
You are what makes me LOVE college football. Thank you for the post, and thank you for your support. I do, and always will respect the UGA football program. Fans like you are one of the reasons my respect exists for your program.
by bleeedingblueinwyoming on Sep 17, 2011 7:09 AM PDT reply actions
"Arbitrary and capricious"-XON you an attorney? Georgia fans were best bloggers we've had over here.
So much so in fact that when we got a nasty scroll, we suspected it was an agent provocateur. You sir are class, your program is class, your university is class. As an alum, I say Boise State should emulate your school in all things, academic, scholastic, intercollegiate, communal.
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Very thoughtful, thank you.
Boise is so efficient they are terrifying. If you have a weakness, they will find it, even if it takes them a quarter or two to size you up proper-like. The Anderson Silva of football offenses, if you will. - Spencer Hall, The Alphabetical Week 1, 2011
Wow, well said
We have all been quite impressed with Dawg Nation. Funny, insiteful, erudite smack backed up by a bazillion year tradition of success on the field and in the classroom. Your bloggers crack us up even when talking about things other than football.
Your coach is a class act on and off the field (and in Latin America) and that is not always the case in the SEC where the pressure is enormous to win at all costs. Mark Richt did not suddenly get stupid – he just had the guts to play a top 5 and top 15 school to start the season. NOBODY does that.
The only problem I have with you guys is the humidity…please fix that before my daughter starts school at Mercer in a few years.
Go Dawgs…beat repitles, striped cats, etc.
I will root for Alabama or Ohio State when they play the Chinese...maybe.
So many firstborn have been offered to beat the reptiles
that it would make too many awkward Christmases if we won at this point. That’s my theory.
Thank you, Xon, for writing thoughtfully, and writing to Obnug. You are courageous, and appreciated.
You write that Boise State is the real deal, and that we are able to develop and reload quickly. I certainly hope you are correct, since next year will be a test of that in the extreme. Last night’s clinic on accurate passing was awesome, but is it replicable? We of Bronco Nation are sick to death of the week-in-week-out rant, yet next year that same question will be posed by us to our quarterback(s)…can they hang in their week-in-week-out like Kellen did making quick reads and maintaining accuracy? Probably not, since that is largely what makes KM a Heisman candidate.
I think next year we will experience a test of our fandom. I hope we are able to be as reasonable and responsible in our analyses as you were in this post.
"Boise State better never have to explain itself, prove itself or apologize for where it comes from to anybody ever again." Steve Greenberg TSN
I find it funny
that a lot of the UGA fans are pretty fun to talk to and read. They are smart and fair over all 1st and T was alway a good read. Hear is a old program with a lot of history and many of the fans that came on here were not Trolls.
Now compare that to the University of Oregon fan. They do not have the history they are very librel and there is a lot of pot smoking hippy types. I know I grew up in Oregon. Yet for being that type there fan they act like well the anti-UGA fan. What is up with that. Not a lot of class, rude, and big time TROLLS….
I will very root for Oregon, we at least not unless it will help out Boise State. On the other had I have no problem rooting for UGA.
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When I saw who wrote the post
I was intrigued to see what sort of massive statistical analysis was forth coming, but nope, just a regular rant.
I am sure Xon, that you could make an analysis that would totally prove your point, yeah I have lurked on the dawg website. Your website has really made me a Bulldog fan, good thoughtful posts with wit and humor, sort of like OBNUG here.
Nice post as always, and nice pounding of coastal carolina. Good luck the rest of the way.. Go Dawgs, GO BRONCOS!!!!
It's funny
I’m gonna get the rep for being stats guy, but I’m a philosopher. Numbers are simply a hobby, because philosophers make hobbies out of everything.
Thanks for the kind words guys. I’m still irked about the NCAA ruling, though.
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