It seems the biggest rumor/media whore in Kansas City is still trying to get someone to notice him and his displeasure for the Kansas Jayhawks and their Orange Bowl appearance. His latest attempt is that he said on his show that the Big 12 was going to launch a formal investigation into allegations that Lew Perkins was guaranteeing ticket sales to the Orange Bowl in return for an invite. Now this has also been posted by MU Grad Dennis Dodd on CBS Sportsline.

I understand they’re upset. Keitzmann is trying to figure out what he’s going to do now that K-State’s football program is officially back in the cellar where it belongs and that the basketball team might very well have wasted one of the best freshman in the last few years on a high-school level coach and little other talent.

Dennis Dodd on the other hand posted this gem:

The national championship matchup is OK with me. But just OK. As I stated in Sunday’s story, Ohio State and LSU were least worst than everyone else. The next biggest controversy had to do with Missouri getting slotted into the Cotton Bowl despite being No. 1 (for a week) and beating Kansas head-to-head.

Kansas got into the Orange Bowl ahead of Missouri because the school guaranteed tickets. Attendance is still an issue with the Orange, and KU AD Lew Perkins guaranteeing ticket sales probably put the Jayhawks over the top.

As unseemly as it sounds, Missouri could have bought its way into the BCS. The ticket thing is left over from the old bowl system. It’s clear that Perkins knows how to play the game. Missouri thought everything would work out. Well, it didn’t.

The only reason the Tigers got as high as the Cotton Bowl (against Arkansas) is that Texas lost to Texas A&M. Had the Aggies won, Missouri would be in the Holiday Bowl at 11-2. Great for the bowl, bad for the program.

If we move on to an article written by Dan Angell in the Missourian, he points out another weird happening in the BCS:

Disagreements between human voters and computer rankings, which each contribute to the overall rankings, are the main cause. The most obvious example this year involved the Tigers and Big 12 champion Oklahoma. Despite the Sooners’ two victories over the Tigers, three of the six BCS computers still believe that MU is the better team, which led to the Tigers being ranked higher overall than the Sooners in the computer portion of the BCS.

He even mentions that the BCS may possibly amend the "Kansas State Rule" which guarantees an at-large bid to any BCS conference team ranked either third or fourth that does not win its conference or implement a new "Missouri Rule" so that we don’t have this problem again.

I still would like someone to explaing to me why Kansas was moved down in the rankings on an idle week and Ohio State was moved up in the rankings on their idle week. Anyone?

I guess I just don’t see the point in complaining about it still. K-State had this problem and lost to Purdue in the Alamo Bowl further cementing the decision to keep them out of the BCS. The only positive thing here is that Pinkel and his team aren’t publicly complaining about it. They’re celebrating the fact that Chase Daniel had a great season and was invited to the Heisman Trophy Ceremony. That’s exactly what they should be doing and I commend them for that. It’s just a little sad that the only way Keitzman has come up with to drive ratings is still complaining about the BCS situation. Apparently he’s done beating the dead "Kansas City Chiefs are terrible" horse.

Dennis Dodd’s article on Sportsline.com >

Article on JoeSportsFan.com >

Dan Angell article in the Missourian >