Answer Tuesday! Part 2 (Football Forum)
What is the criteria of the BCS?
Q: How many college football games do you watch each weekend before submitting your AP ballot?
A: It always depends on whether USC is at home or on the road and what time USC kicks off. Sometimes quite a few games, other times, not too many.
Q: Coach Carroll's made an interesting point in questioning whether the BCS championship format is supposed to select the best two teams at the end of the year or the two teams with the best seasons. As a voter, what do you think the criteria is and what should it be (assuming that the current BCS system is here to stay)
A: I think the BCS is supposed to choose the two best teams over the course of the season, because the computers measure every game. Of course the human polls tend to be influenced more by what happens in November/December. I don't mind looking at who the best two teams are at the end of the season, because that's what a playoff would essentially do. But the problem is how do you agree on who those teams are? I think USC was playing as well as any team in the country at the end of the 2002 season but how would they get to the championship without a playoff that season?
Q: If Broderick Green is truly transferring, do think that RB may be come more of a focus for the 09 recruiting class, even with Bradford red-shirting and having D.J. Morgan committed (if that holds up) for 2010?
A: I believe USC will try to convince recruits there is an opening for playing time at running back but it's late in the year to reach out to someone. Maybe Andre Debose will give USC a longer look now, however.
On the glass is half empty side, recruits may look at Broderick Green's departure as a sign that even if you have a 100+ yards rushing game you might not break the rotation. I'm guessing other programs will try and spin Green's experience as a sign that there isn't a true open competition at USC.
Come on, 100+ yards against WSU didn't prove anything. Brod got impatient just as Moody did. Good riddance. You don't want to compete, go to UCLA.