I initially thought the concept of a 24 hour sports news network was great.  You could literally get sports news on demand when you weren't around the Internet (or your wife was using your computer.)

As time has gone on, ESPN news has been a tremendous disappointment to me.  Most of the time, the anchors are on the ESPN developmental squad, which is to say they are young guys being groomed for the mother ship.  But most of these guys are so bad, they may never make it.  Stu Scott wannabe Mike Hill, for instance, came from Nashville about eight years ago and is still awful.

Yesterday, the anchor (I didn't catch his name) was discussing the BCS and going through who was going to get to the BCS championship.  First, he said that Florida, ranked fourth, "needed some help" to get to Miami.  Dose he not understand how the BCS works? If Florida wins in the SEC championship game Saturday, they will have defeated the number one BCS ranked team and their new ranking will easily propel them to Miami.  They don't need any help, they need a simple win over Alabama.

Then, he went on moan and groan about how Texas is getting ripped off.  Again, he was clueless to understand that Texas WAS NOT getting ripped off by the BCS, Texas was getting ripped off by ITS OWN CONFERENCE.  Anyone who remotely understands the BCS (including my wife and two dogs) knows that in beating the twelfth ranked team in the country on the road by 20 points would clearly put Oklahoma past Texas in the BCS rankings.  The only reason Oklahoma wasn't ahead of Texas a couple of weeks ago is that it hadn't played OSU yet. Texas' problem was that in a three way tie breaker, the BIg 12 decided to use the BCS ranking as a tie breaker.

Thus, it wasn't the BCS who cooked the Longhorns goose, it was the Big 12's tie breaking procedures.  Had they used head to head competition, the Longhorns may be headed to the Big 12 championship game, not the Sooners.

You just wish these guys would get it straight.