(02-18-2012 11:19 AM)johnnylightnin Wrote:  

(02-18-2012 11:11 AM)FIUFan Wrote:  However, the point you're missing is that a team that runs the guantlet of an Alliance season plus play-off's of 18-24 teams probably deserves at least and at-large bid in one of the BCS bowl games.

When has deserving ever mattered. If the alliance champ has 2 losses, I can promise you they won't get an at-large.

As for further separation, the Alliance didn't prompt it, but they recognize it and are trying to fight against it by distancing themselves from the Mac and the belt (WAC is dead). In reality, when AQ goes away, it's far more likely that the net effect is that the BE is locked out...as opposed to the Alliance champ having an "in".

"When has deserving ever mattered. If the alliance champ has 2 losses, I can promise you they won't get an at-large."

Welll, ask Boise or TCU or even Houston and UCF. They're all playing in an AQ conference now. Sure you may get shafted in the short run but in the long run it 'matters'.

I agree completely with your second paragraph.