Monday chatter

First off, Randy Edsall on the Big East call said that Donald Brown will consider jumping to the NFL after this season.

This is the prudent thing to do (to explore it). Brown, a Kinsieology, major is close to graduating anyhow. He either needs one more semester, or at worst some summer classes. That's how UConn designs it. For example, Tyler Lorenzen has only one class this semester and will graduate in the winter. D.J. Hernandez graduated last spring (he is taking masters level classes).

So, in essence, the only reason for him to return to UConn is to take one class and play football.

Why should he explore it carefully? The shelf-life of a running back in the NFL is short, and considering the position Brown plays, he is one cut, or one roll-over from a defender from never playing again.Running backs get hurt all the time, and they are a dime a dozen.

The question for Brown is can he improve his draft stock at all by staying another year? I don't see Brown as a first round pick. He does strike me as a second or third round pick at running back.

If Brown is 1st or second round back, he probably should go. Third round, then you got to figure if the money is worth sacrificing another year.

What is clear, is he has options. He can graduate and go to the NFL and full fill his dreams. He can come back for one last go-around and absolutely shatter every UConn running mark. UConn is shaping up to be a pretty good team next year anyway.

Now, onto the BCS debacle.

Now, I am a firm proponent of the bowl system. Everyone is selfish about a playoff. A playoff will ruin every other bowl game that is played. It destroys the smaller conference football, and any other team that does not win is relegated to loserville.

What would UConn and Pitt be playing for this weekend? Why would Rutgers even care about getting to 7 wins? It's because each team has different goals. There are only 7-8 teams a year who can realistically think about winning a national title.

There are also logistical and practical reasons that a playoff won't work (Conference championships, neutral sites in multiple weeks for fanbase, sheer complication of football travel).

Still, the fact that Oklahoma is ahead of Texas in the BCS to me is mind-boggling. They play the same teams, and Oklahoma beat Texas Tech, which beat Texas, which beat Oklahoma. Was the Oklahoma win over Cincinnati the clincher? Probably.

It's just a mess. It's coin-flip, though I would pick Texas over Oklahoma on virtue of the neutral site victory (the truest result of the bunch).

Still, that's not what I see as the problem.

Here is the debacle.

What happens if Missouri upsets Oklahoma? Then Texas in the national title game by doing nothing? How is that fair to Alabama, which is No. 1 right now and has to play Florida (folks, the best team in the country).

The fact that Texas can get in with a loss by Oklahoma or Alabama strikes me as backwards. What happens if Florida beats Alabama, and Oklahoma wins? Then there is a chance it's Oklahoma-Texas.

I would imagine the computer will jump up Florida, but who knows?

Looming is USC and Penn St. I love USC and think they are the second best team in the country.
Here is my Top 10 I submitted this week.

1. Alabama
2. Florida
3. USC
4. Texas
5. Oklahoma
6. Penn St.
7. Utah
8. Texas Tech
9. Boise St.
10. Ohio St.

If Florida wins the SEC championship, and doesn't get to the BCS game, I am strongly going to look at Florida, and even USC, as my No. 1 vote in the final poll. I will let the games play out, but I am not sure the BCS is going to give us the nations two top teams.

That's very frustrating.