srsly, Galloway is one of the most respected columnists in the country.
And he is a TCU fan, what do you want him to say? He's not a whorn.
And he loves Stoops. And says so regularly.
Here's a recent article to back that up....
BCS stinks, but some coaches have games within the system
By RANDY GALLOWAY
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There are those who still defend it, those who still promote it as superior to any other system of real football, and those who still want us to believe that "every Saturday is a playoff Saturday."
I guess they mean like Texas vs. La. Monroe. Or Florida vs. Florida International. Or my personal favorite, Florida vs. Charleston Southern.
Those who defend it, promote it and want us to believe it, are idiots. And also the money-mafia. And also bowl-game bag men.
But I’m not here today to rip again into the fraudulence that is college football when it comes to the ways and means of determining what in the end will be, and always has been, a bogus national champion.
It is the system, the BCS system. It’s not going to change anytime soon.
How then, do you "play" the system?
Let us consider three cases by using the names of Mack Brown, Bob Stoops and Gary Patterson, currently the three most successful large-time college coaches of our territory. And that’s not belittling the Plains’ Pirate out in Lubbock. Coach Leach is dug-in on this issue. The others aren’t. Not necessarily.
At the late October pivotal point of the college season, Brown of Texas has the most open road to a bogus national title game, with the SEC duo of Florida and Alabama as a toss-up to provide the opposition.
But I’m here mainly to praise Bob Stoops, although I noticed I’m a couple of days late.
My friend, Berry Tramel of TheOklahoman, does as good a job as anybody in the country in attempting to provide rational opinion when it comes to his main precinct, which is the Norman nuthouse.
This week, Tramel gave a strong printed butt-pat, and stellar advice to Stoops, who has an OU team with a 3-3 record, and a stud quarterback with his shoulder busted again. Read on:
"Pride still matters. Some things are more important than championships. Like honor and self-respect. There is honor in competition.
"Honor in building up your sport, instead of tearing it down. There is no honor in purchased victory or manufactured success."
Hear. Hear.
Stoops got burned to the ground this season because he played a strong nonconference schedule. Well, mainly, he and OU were torched by the Sam Bradford injuries, but ...
Even with another quarterback, Stoops could have played Mack Brown’s non-conference schedule, and be 5-1 right now, with only a 16-13 loss to Texas, which in BCS style points would have been more impressive, sans Bradford, than the W for Texas.
With a weak Big 12 ahead of him, and if Bradford can return again, Stoops could be plotting a repeat of last season. You remember last season, when the Longhorns beat him good in October, and still got shafted (my opinion) when OU went to the bogus BCS title game because Mack had too many shrimp on his nonconference plate.
There's more here...
http://www.star-telegram.com/318/story/1703515.html