There were objective measures but objective measures aren't necessarily fair or appropriate nor are they automatically adequate tools to determine a true champion.
The team that can stand on their head for the most minutes during the game shall advance to the conference championship game. Objective, but stupid.
Umm, it's not like saying that at all. OSU beat mich. OSU beat Wisky. Mich beat wisky. I'm looking at wins and losses. You're looking at arbitrary divisional alignment to determine which team is better or more deserving.
Are you ok with dropping Ohio State and raising Michigan because the Wolverines were the better team all year and on the day they played? Ya, didn't think so.
You want an objective system but seem to have no problem defaulting back to subjective metrics like 'better team all year' or 'better team the day they played'. Not really sure how you're going about making such determinations. As far as that game in particular the box score certainly doesn't support that argument.[/QUOTE]
That is the point of my whole argument and thank you for taking the bait. The subjective system that excludes over 50% of the teams from ever having a chance before the season starts can NEVER produce a true champion. Moreover, the subjective system cannot even distinguish successfully between the less than 50% of the teams who do have a chance before the season starts. It is the worst system possible.
Ohio State and Michigan could win their games and go to the conference championship games. They actually had that opportunity. They failed. Wisconsin and Penn State succeeded.
Interesting that you would complain about the division alignment in the BIG while pointing at Western Michigan's schedule as a reason to exclude them too.
I want Ohio State, Michigan, Western Michigan and every other FBS team to have opportunity. You don't.
The team that can stand on their head for the most minutes during the game shall advance to the conference championship game. Objective, but stupid.
If that is the objective rule, it is what should be used and the power5 schools will then have all the inroads to recruiting 5 star Headstanders. As long as all the teams have objective rules to play by, and the measuring stick for winning and for advancing are objective and applied to all, then you have no legitimate complaint.
The great thing is .... the headstand example shows the level of corruption. As ridiculous as your example is, the teams with bad headstanding would have less to complain about than a team that wins every single one of its games and cannot play in the playoffs. The way we are currently doing things is THAT silly.
We will never be able to have it entirely fair. Some teams are going to be at home certain seasons when they play eachother and all sorts of other issues. Objective measure will always be better than subjective measure and the former far more distant from corruption and bias than the later. And fulfilling objective measures is the only way to create a true champion. The only way.
