BCS Coaches Need Some Cheese with that Whine

Last Week Charlie Weis became one of the many major division one coaches to bitch and moane about the BCS rankings. Complaining that Tennessee and Florida moved ahead of the rankings when Tennessee played a similar game that weekend and Florida sat idle. His arguments were similar to any politician's advertisement you see popping up on your television all excuses and yelling about what other teams have not done instead of mentioning valid points of why Notre Dame should be ranked higher. Charlie the fact remains that you have no stellar victories on your resume this season while Tennessee whiped the floor with Cal, possibly the best team in the Pac 10, and Florida knocked of Tennessee in Rocky Top. Charlie had no reason to open his mouth and complain but he certainly wasn't the first nor the last coach to do so.

Last month Tommy, I'm still bitter of 2004, Tuberville came out and said that the SEC has no chance of going to the national title game and that the pollsters take into account losses too much and not the quality of the team. Basically he was complaining about West Virginia and Louisville being ranked ahead of his Auburn Tigers. Tommy to quote the great Bill Parcells, "You are what your record says you are." Well, Tommy if you didn't get thumped at home you would be ranked #2 in the country and you had the easiest possible schedule in SEC history with all difficult games coming at home. And why complain, West Virginia and Lousiville still have the toughest part of their schedule remaining, just win out and everything will take care of itself.

To further the nuisance of Tommy Tuberville whining all you have to do is look up to the land of the Badgers. The Badgers have really gotten no love from the media and the pollsters despite their one loss coming in the Big House to the second best team in the nation. So what do the Badgers have to complain about you may ask? How about their preseason ranking as opposed to that of Auburn's? Auburn came into the season ranked #6 in the country while Wisconsin on the other hand was ranked where? Oh not ranked at all. And why is this an injustice, well lets slide back to the bowl season and who thumped Auburn in the Citrus Bowl, oh wait it was Wisconsin.

The most egregious of these whine and cheese acts by a coach in recent history came from Mack Brown and the Texas Longhorns two seasons ago. Where Mack Brown single handedly whined his way into the BCS over California. And what was his main argument that year? Oh we only lost one game and it was to Oklahoma and they are playing in the National Title game. Oh and who did California lose to, oh yeah USC who went on to massacre Oklahoma in the Championship game. And the pollsters went with him and changed their rankings leaving the Longhorns in the Rose Bowl while Cal was stuck in the Holiday poll. Its absolutely pathetic that this was allowed to happen and I will hold this against Mack Brown for the rest of his coaching career. If this is ever allowed to happen again, where one coach coming to the press and complaining about their status influences the way other coaches and pollsters create their rankings than they should be ashamed of themselves.

Note to Tommy and Charlie and Mack Brown and all others that want to whine about their position in the rankings, Just Shut Up.