3 Things Wrong With College Football

With all of the great things going on in college football today, there are still some actions from fans, coaches, and even the BCS that really become annoying over time.  Here's my top 3 annoying things that college football needs to change one day:

1)  Icing the Kicker. 

The kicker has a hard enough time as it is.  He is looked down upon by his teammates, is usually much smaller and weaker then his teammates, and everyone hates him even when a less-important kick is missed during a game.  To make it worse, when he has a very important game winning kick lined up, at the very last second a head coach will call timeout just to psyche him out.  I guess the thinking behind this is that if the kicker is in the zone and ready to kick, and all of a sudden you call time out, you are making him think twice and taking him out of his comfort zone before the big kick.  That seems pretty cheap to me.  If the game comes down to a last second kick, then good, it should be that way.  The other team probably did not play well enough to stop the team from kicking a last second, game-winning field goal.  The NCAA needs to create a penalty for calling a time out to ice the kicker.  This action is ridiculous and shows awful sportsmanship. 

2)  Fans Booing their Own Team

So lets say you're a die-hard Virginia Tech fan.  You go to a game a Lane Stadium and VT is not playing up to their capabilities.  Do you start booing?  No way.  Even when indecisive Sean Glennon was playing QB last year and the year before, he would throw several interceptions and you would never hear the whole stadium booing.  At Miami's game last night versus VT, the Miami fans were booing their own team constantly, even their freshman QB who has been doing pretty well (better than Jacory Harris) until he played the Hokies.  You hear it in the NFL all the time too.  This shows bad sportsmanship as well, from the fans.  Booing your own team is not going to make them play better.  They're probably playing bad for a reason, whether it be an injured crucial player or a bad offensive play caller, and your boos are only going to make it worse.  Do you think Sean Glennon wanted to go out and play harder when he was being booed by his home crowd?  My guess is that he wanted to disappear and tell the fans to get lost.  Football games won't always go your way, and that's something that most fans cannot accept.  However, think about how rude you are being next time you boo your own team and what kind of message you are sending your team's players. 


3)  Bad Teams in the BCS

Certain conferences have an automatic bid into one of the largest Bowl games at the end of the season - the BCS bowls.  For example, the Big East, which is a very weak conference this year, gets an automatic bid into a BCS bowl.  So a team like Pitt, who will probably go 8-4, a decent record but not a championship-type record, will end up in a BCS bowl, and not really deserve to be there.  Meanwhile, the whole top-25 is filled with 1 and 2-loss teams who will not make it to one of the big bowls this year.  This definitely needs to change NOW.  If Pitt gets into a bowl over a great team like Ohio State, Michigan State, LSU, Auburn , Alabama, etc., there is something wrong.  The BCS needs to realize that since Miami and VT left the Big East several years ago, the conference is weak.  Until the Big East can land some solid teams to improve their conference's image, take away their automatic bid to a BCS bowl game.  Really, who is going to watch a team like Pitt in a championship bowl game against a team like Wisconsin?  This will be totally unfair, Pitt won't have a chance to win, and the TV ratings will be awful.