Ok, so I was watching my Bills get annihalated by the Pats, and I was thinking to myself, "How embarrased must the league be to be showcasing this game on national tv? Is this really the sort of product the league wants to display?" Now first of all, I think what the Pats are doing is great. But is it great for the league? Absolutely not! Sure it's great for the New Englanders, and their bandwagon fanbase around the world, but the rest of us hate the patriots, and as Tom Brady used to be the lovable role model he was back in the early millenium, now he is just as despised as the rest of them.
So where am I going with all of this? Well, I think that the NFL should adopt the same policy as England's Premier League, with there being a two tier system, and thus there should be a minor league system as well. I'm not talking about the shitty NFL Europe, because we all saw where that went, what I am saying is that there should be a minor league NFL in the country, around such places as Lansing, L.A., San Jose, etc. Hell, maybe the arena league could just become the NFL minor leagues and we could go from there. I think it's a necessity now, because nobody wants to see losing teams getting embarrased, and nobody wants to see losing teams playing other losing teams. This should be embarrasing for the NFL, because as I am watching the Cowboys blow out the Jets on Thanksgiving, it's apparent something needs to be done to maintain a national fan base. Just look at what baseball did with the wild card, now alot of cities are interested 'till the death. Upsets in football are very random, and not very frequent, so I think it's now time to establish not only a minor league system, but a two-tier system. Winning clubs will only play winning clubs, and the bad clubs will only play the bad clubs. Of course, since there are 32 clubs in the NFL, divide it in half. The two worst teams from the previous seasons will be sent to the minors, with the two top teams in the minors being sent to the NFL. Thus garbage teams like the dolphins and rams would thankfully no longer be on tv. The NFL Draft would still occur, only the relegated teams would not be a part of it obviously. This is how you make bad teams have motivation, because other wise the failed system in which they just keep losing till they get a #1 pick is ridiculous. However, the teams with the top 16 picks will be part of the second tier, and the remaining teams will be part of the top tier.
1. The teams with the first 16 picks will only play each other in the regular season, the amount of games and weeks will be the same. The leagues and divisions will be abolished, and the top 3 teams from each tier will advance into the playoffs. Now it gets interesting..
2. Suppose from the Top tier, which remember is the top 16 teams, the #1 Patriots, #2 Colts, #3 Bills( I know, wishful thinking) advance to the playoffs. Well, Since the Pats are the top team, they get a first round bye.
3. From the Second tier, suppose the #1 Bucs, #2 Seahawks, #3 Vikings, with the Bucs getting a bye, then
a) The two #3's, the Vikings and Bills will play each other, but home field will not automatically be rewarded to the Bills, even though they played in a harder tier. Rather the tiebreaking procedures of the current NFL will remain the same, only obviously the rules regarding conferences and divisions will be out because they will not exist. Football is in a new millenium, thus we don't need divisions and conferences anymore, and it would be hard to maintain if 1 team is relegated from a division anyways.
b) The Vikings and the Bills will play each other at the Ralph, after it was determined Buffalo won the tiebreaker. Bills win!
c) The #2 Colts will play aginst the #2 Hawks at the RCA, with the Colts winning.
d) so now, we will say the the team with the better record, regardless of tier, will play at home. So the Bills will play the Bucs, because the Bucs had a better record than the Bills in the regular season, even if they played easier teams. That makes the Second Tier's regular season interesting! So say the Bills beat the Bucs at Tampa, and the Patriots demolish the Colts at home, so the Superbowl will be the Bills and Patriots. The Super Bowl will still be played in a neutral venue, and the pro bowl will still be after the super bowl.
I think this is a great idea because the league needs change because football has changed, and interest must be maintained because alot of teams are getting tv blackouts because people dont wanna see bad matchups. There u go nfl
Thursday, November 22, 2007
Saturday, November 3, 2007
The future for students
Hey all, haven't been on in a while, but I'm here to talk to you about the sad trend, or un-sad trend (depending on ur outlook on it), of Ivy League Acceptance rates. First let me start off by saying that I am in no way bitter of the way their admission committee's treat their prospective students like robots, but rather just appaled by how hypocritical our society has become regarding a "good school". As parents, we all want to send our kids to the cream of the crop, but now good grades aren't any sort of assurance or guarantee that our kids will go there. As of right now, about 12-13% is the average acceptance rate for good schools such as Brown, Stanford(which might actually be more like 11%), and Cornell. Just for shits and giggles, I decided to blog about what a future, let's say the year 2015, might say.
Dear Student:
We are so pleased that you are considering to apply to the University of the Impossible! Each year thousands of students matriculate through our many world class colleges, and they all agree that the experience and knowledge they gained here, helped them immenseley in their future careers! In fact, you can read testimonials of current students who did interviews for prospective students, just like you! So what's it like at the University of the Impossible? Well that's a hard question, as many of our students have differing perspectives on the everyday life, as our students are from all over the world, and such diversity adds to the perspectives of many. Our world class teachers have been in school since they were taken out of their mother's womb, taking calculus at an average age of 12. So as a result of such devotion, they relate to students just as much as students relate to them!
Requirements:
This is a very tough question to answer, as each semester we recieve thousands of applicants who have perfect transcripts, with no blemishes whatsoever! In fact, of the 100,000 applicants we receieve each year, roughly half have G.P.A.'s over 4.0, with SAT Scores averaging 2400. Since we have spaces for only 1,000 students, that makes our admission rate "1%". Though we would never boast about our competiveness, secretly we love rejecting students with perfect records, as it makes us feel better inside about ourselves, as to how much power we have, and we laugh at how alot of these kids spend their whole lives behind books, and it all usually leads to a state college with a bunch of alcoholics and druggies. At the University of the Impossible, we pride ourselves on how impossible it is to get in this university, and yet how many people continue to think they have a chance to win the lottery. Unfortunately, if you don't have money or over-zealous parents, you will not attend this institution, and should therefore not set your goals very high. We aren't in the age where we can go to a good school with just good grades, you need to be in every club invented, while inventing some on the way, you need to be an athlete and excel in every sport you play in, and you also need to have a part time job on the side so we know you are motivated. Obviously, getting perfect grades isn't always easy with all of these responsibilities, but our students have accomplished all of this, on top of helping their neighbors take out the trash!
Obviously, they would not write probably any of this stuff in the real thing, but I can guess that in the future, Ivy League and Private Schools will not take any applicants with less than a 4.0 GPA, as ludicrous as that sounds, they do need to weed people out, and the only way to weed them out is to make the standards perfect, because isn't that what they're looking for in the end? Yes.
Dear Student:
We are so pleased that you are considering to apply to the University of the Impossible! Each year thousands of students matriculate through our many world class colleges, and they all agree that the experience and knowledge they gained here, helped them immenseley in their future careers! In fact, you can read testimonials of current students who did interviews for prospective students, just like you! So what's it like at the University of the Impossible? Well that's a hard question, as many of our students have differing perspectives on the everyday life, as our students are from all over the world, and such diversity adds to the perspectives of many. Our world class teachers have been in school since they were taken out of their mother's womb, taking calculus at an average age of 12. So as a result of such devotion, they relate to students just as much as students relate to them!
Requirements:
This is a very tough question to answer, as each semester we recieve thousands of applicants who have perfect transcripts, with no blemishes whatsoever! In fact, of the 100,000 applicants we receieve each year, roughly half have G.P.A.'s over 4.0, with SAT Scores averaging 2400. Since we have spaces for only 1,000 students, that makes our admission rate "1%". Though we would never boast about our competiveness, secretly we love rejecting students with perfect records, as it makes us feel better inside about ourselves, as to how much power we have, and we laugh at how alot of these kids spend their whole lives behind books, and it all usually leads to a state college with a bunch of alcoholics and druggies. At the University of the Impossible, we pride ourselves on how impossible it is to get in this university, and yet how many people continue to think they have a chance to win the lottery. Unfortunately, if you don't have money or over-zealous parents, you will not attend this institution, and should therefore not set your goals very high. We aren't in the age where we can go to a good school with just good grades, you need to be in every club invented, while inventing some on the way, you need to be an athlete and excel in every sport you play in, and you also need to have a part time job on the side so we know you are motivated. Obviously, getting perfect grades isn't always easy with all of these responsibilities, but our students have accomplished all of this, on top of helping their neighbors take out the trash!
Obviously, they would not write probably any of this stuff in the real thing, but I can guess that in the future, Ivy League and Private Schools will not take any applicants with less than a 4.0 GPA, as ludicrous as that sounds, they do need to weed people out, and the only way to weed them out is to make the standards perfect, because isn't that what they're looking for in the end? Yes.
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