College Rules!

Ok enough is enough. I played golf today with a this gentlemen from Ohio. He was from outside of Columbus so I knew he routed for OSU (Oh Shut Up). Our conversations started out peacefully talking about sports and what not. As the round passed and the conversation grew on. Now I want to make this clear, I did not tell him anything about me, where I'm from, which school I attended, nothing! The Colonel Reb head cover on my driver wasn't a tip.
So the conversation about jobs, weather, national news etc.. to something we both agreed on, Brett Farve needs to hang it up, and how boring the summer is until football starts back up. I asked him whats the one thing you wished could be changed in all of Football? Not just college, but the pro's as well. He sat there for a second and though about it and then he hit me with it. This is no lie and 100% the truth. He looks me square in the eye and says. There needs to be a rule that if you make the BCS championship the previous season and then won your conference the next you should automatically play in that season's BCS championship. Ok there are look a person gave to when you hear stupid things, but then there are looks of just pure amazement.
Ok I actually decided I was going to play along with this one. Besides we were on the 11th hole and I wanted to see where this was going. This is only gets better to me. I'm saying to this guy yeah, thats a great idea. I think any team who finished second the previous season should get a pass if they win their conference, then they should get a straight pass to the championship game. Even better the winner should not, because its fun to see a different school win every year. At this point I got this guy going, we are now best friends playing golf, hanging out, talking sports etc... Deep down I'm about to shoot myself for even letting this conversation get to this point. So conversation keeps going about college football, and he never asks me who do I pull for again the club head cover was there right in my cart the whole time. We start talking about the BIG TEN. My favorite, talking rivalries, big games, why they don't need a 12th team, and even a little basketball. Why I know so much about the BIG TEN is because I love to bash it, so I feel inclined to watch sportcenter and let them tell me everything I need to know about.
This all last for about 4 holes. So then comes the kicker that finally sent me over the edge. He looks at me and says, you know what. I think the NCAA needs to do away with conference championships and only make each teams schedule 11 games. You play each team in your confernce and then some school from your state or near for the fans. Ok I hit my wall and turned on the guy. Now my face about the BCS game was nothing compared to what I gave him for that comment. First thing out of my mouth, pure laughter. I could not stop laughing. This guy believed for the entire conversation that we must think alike.
Again going to back to his conversation on the BCS game this all makes sense to me. Once I stopped laughing, the only thing that I could say was, umm if that ever passes then I will actually start pulling for a BIG TEN team. I continued with why on earth would the NCAA ever allow that to happen. Think about it for a second, why would they just shut down National Collegiate Athletic Association. I continued thats just what I want to see, a beat down every year of from the champion of the SEC or USC to Ohio State. Midgets from China playing waterpolo sounds more exciting. At that point this guys face is more priceless than mine was. Ok so next I decided that he might be the dumbest person I ever talked to in sports. I told him that he should leave and never come back to Florida or the south unless its for another beat down from an SEC school or in any other bowl game. He had the balls to ask me if I agreed with his other points about football and basketball. I held back the tears from laughing so hard to simple say, NOPE! At that point we are alomst done with out round, the guy just drove off. Not another word or did I even see him pick up his ball. They guy just left. I continued my round I was playing pretty good. I finished with a 79, one eagle, two doubles, so not bad.
Moral of the story is this, find out where people are from before you start to talk to them about something, save your self the embarassment. This gentlemen seemed like a nice guy, but he assumed that I was from up north and did not pay attention to his surroundings. I might have led him on a bit, but I had to. It was well worth the laugh.