This nonsense of “vacating” national titles is just that, NONSENSE! Either you let a particular player play, in which case, whatever his team accomplishes stays in the books, or you don’t let him play, in which case his team might not have achieved the success they did in the first place. Either way, once the games are played, THAT’S IT!
Vacating a title doesn’t suddenly make anything “fair” because the team that the rule-makers decided – after the fact – shouldn’t have won, are actually saying that they shouldn’t have even played in the game, which means that some other team necessarily should have. But does that game get replayed with the newly designated “right” team in it?
No!
So what was the freakin’ point of vacating the title to begin with? All the overseers are really doing is telling every fan of every team which had a shot at the title, that they’ve just wasted the entire college football season watching a bunch of games that, in the end, meant absolutely nothing!
This nonsense of “vacating” national titles is just that, NONSENSE! Either you let a particular player play, in which case, whatever his team accomplishes stays in the books, or you don’t let him play, in which case his team might not have achieved the success they did in the first place. Either way, once the games are played, THAT’S IT!
Vacating a title doesn’t suddenly make anything “fair” because the team that the rule-makers decided – after the fact – shouldn’t have won, are actually saying that they shouldn’t have even played in the game, which means that some other team necessarily should have. But does that game get replayed with the newly designated “right” team in it?
No!
So what was the freakin’ point of vacating the title to begin with? All the overseers are really doing is telling every fan of every team which had a shot at the title, that they’ve just wasted the entire college football season watching a bunch of games that, in the end, meant absolutely nothing!