No matter what the stats say, Crabtree is the best WR I have ever seen in college, a slight nod to him over Larry Fitzgerald. I guy is an absolute freak that does everything well. He is a better WR than Collie! That is not a knock on Collie. As I said, Crabtree is a once in a lifetime type of player. Throwout the stats and actually watch him play. He is an absolute stud and is every bit as good as advertised. He is a guy I would absolutely pay to watch play.

I like your posts. In regards to your first one there is one major problem that no one seems to have mentioned yet–but might have. CAN THE MWC keep enough talented coaches to warrant “earning” the right to belong as a BCS conference. Look where Meyer is now coaching…? And its just a matter of time before guys like Bronco, Troy Calhoun, and even Whittingham get offered five times the pay to go coach in a current BCS conference. This is huge problem and as I understand it BYU alum have begun to for “a plan” to TRY to keep their coach but what about the rest of the teams in the MWC?

I have blue blood but had the Utes hung on to Meyer in 2005, it is highly probably Alex Smith would have stayed, and others who left for the NFL, as well and their whole team might have competed in in a national title the very next year. If not that year I could argue that Meyer would have gotten one of his Ute teams into a title game. His teams’–even now–are insanely prepared for “big” games.

This isn’t a tribute to Meyer but our coaching talent gets lost to the BCS conferences. Sarkisian, Chow, Croton–as a coordinator not a head coach, Meyer, etc etc, even Mike Leach of Texas Tech is a BYU grad. The point is How do we “earn” the right to be a BCS conference if all of our coaching talent, or talented people with “ties to the program” go elsewhere cause the money is ten times better??? It’s a huge question.

Except that no one watches the Mtn, so it won’t matter.

But you know what they say about the Golden Rule…He who has the GOLD makes the RULES. The BCS conferences have all the money, so they will continue to make the rules.

“Standards for Future BCS Automatic Qualification

The champions of the Atlantic Coast, Big East, Big 10, Big 12, Pac-10 and Southeastern Conferences will have annual automatic qualification for a BCS game after the regular seasons of 2008 through 2013, based on mathematical standards of performance during the 2004-2007 regular seasons.

The 2006-2009 regular seasons will be evaluated under the same standards to determine if other conferences will have annual automatic qualification for the games after the 2012 and 2013 regular seasons. The champions of no more than seven conferences will have annual automatic berths.

If the BCS continues under the same or similar format, conferences will be evaluated on their performances during the 2010-2013 regular seasons to determine which conferences will have automatic qualification for the bowls that will conclude the 2014-2017 regular seasons.

The evaluation data includes the following for each conference (1) the ranking of the highest-ranked team in the final BCS standings each year, (2) the final regular-season rankings of all conference teams in the computer rankings used by the BCS each year and (3) the number of teams in the top 25 of the final BCS standings each year.

Conference agreements with bowls will continue. The Pac-10 and Big Ten champions will host the Rose Bowl if their teams are not in the BCS national championship game. Likewise, the Southeastern Conference champion will host the Sugar Bowl, ACC champion will host the Orange Bowl and Big 12 champion will host the Fiesta Bowl.”

I have to agree with everything you wrote. Let me just add that even in the SEC or Big 12 this year we would be in contention. We would at the very least be above .500 in conference in those Conferences.

I think the BCS needs to do away with the automatic bid all together. It won’t happen, but let’s face it, if you are good enough to be in a BCS bowl, then atuomatic or not, you will end up ranked high enough at the end of the year. It probably wouldn’t drastically change which conferences sent teams to the BCS games, but it would eliminate a 7-4 Pitt team from getting a fluke win at the right time and taking a spot that another team in the country deserved.

I really don’t think that people would complain about not having an Automatic bid. Look at this years BCS rankings. No one has won a conf champ yet, (no automatic lock ins) but can you really argue who the top 10 teams are? Not really. So far all 10 have earned the right to be in a BCS bowl.

The only way we will bust into being a BCS conference is not by leaving the MWC, but by the MWC “earning” the right. Over time, after several years of winning games and having ranked teams, I think that the MWC will have enough ammunition to get that automatic bid.