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October 20, 2009

The Highest Bidder Votes

I get lots of email updates trying to get me to bid on the athletic department's online auctions.  The auctions raise money for the athletic department and you can buy autographed stuff and special experiences throught UGA athletics that you can't find other places.  We're not alone in this fundraising practice.  For the Florida game, LSU auctioned off the "experience of a lifetime" for LSU fans.  The package included walking with the team to the game, running through the tunnel, and watching the game with the AD.  It sold for over $15,000.  A friend asked how much it would cost to call LSU's plays for a quarter?  None of UGA's auctions have been that dramatic.

With that background, I was listening to Kirk Herbstreit yesterday on 680 as he was complaining that the Coaches Poll is just an absolute joke.  Coaches don't watch games because they have to, you know, work on Saturdays.  The SIDs that they hand off their voting duties to just look at the scores in the paper.  So, the vote doesn't really reflect reality because the voters are too busy to really watch what they are voting on.  It's like picking Miss America based on her application, sight unseen.

Thus, I have a proposal.  Explicitly allow the coaches to transfer their voting obligations (which they already do) and then let the athletic departments auction the vote off to the highest bidder.  First, this gets the vote into the hands of someone who might actually watch the games.  Second, it gets more money to the athletic departments.  Third, it could lead to some awesome market manipulation.  Boone Pickens and Phil Knight would battle to buy all the ballots.  It could even lead to more auctions so that the athletic departments could buy up more ballots.

Quinton

31 comments:

Andrew Danger Fritze said...

God, I hope that's a joke.

Trey said...

I think you tried too hard with this post. Sorry.

Dubbayoo said...

not a good Dawg :(

Former NFL Player Terreal Bierria Booked in Slidell Area Homicide

http://www.abc26.com/bierria-murder-charge-news-wgno,0,3380401.story

daaaawg said...

This post made me laugh. That alternate reality where this happened would be pretty amazing. Okie State and Oregon 1 and 2 every year. The following year Harvard moves to the FBS with new super booster Bill Gates backing them and is immediately consensus #1.

Quinton McDawg said...

Uh, yeah, it's a joke. But no less of a joke than the fact that people who watch one college football game a weekend determine a third of the formula used to pick the sport's two championship contenders.

fuelk2 said...

And this is the same process that yields Jevan Snead as first team all-SEC pre-season. It is pretty stupid.

On a serious note, however, the SEC digital network replays of games are pretty sweet. I'm studying film on UF. Just wanted to share.

JasonC said...

I think the SEC has already adopted something like this and they are now accepting (apparently low) bids to play the part as a referee. Bill who is the night stockman at Fred's Dollar Store was able to call the Florida-Arkansas game for a bid of only $14.70

The Watch Dawg said...

Well played JasonC, well played.

Rick said...

My God, Quinton is absolutely useless.

He posts something good about as often as Tebow gets a celebration penalty.

Anonymous said...

Rick,

I promise you that your comment is much more useless than his post. If you think you can do better than Quinton, blogger.com or wordpress are ready when you are.

Go start your own and show us how its done.

Pwd

HamDawg11 said...

Sic 'em, Paul!

Normaltown Mike said...

Spurrier is accusing Bama of (possibly) cheating.

http://www.ajc.com/sports/uga/spurrier-bama-may-have-168196.html

Man, its great to have him back in the SEC. Nobody stirs the pot like Darth Visor.

Also, I thought the Quinton insults were orchestrated by his friends as some joke. Judging by Paul's response, its not. If you want a place to correct grammar and "call out" people, please go The Dawg Vent. You'll be able to swap insults and discuss a "Five Star Can't Miss" w/ any # of undergrads from Lilburn, etc.

Most posters here seem to be above such stupidity (even Boogers).

PWD, QMcD and D'nox, thanks for maintaing a site for mature intelligent thinkers to chew the fat about our beloved dogs. And thanks for not barring me for my lack of maturity & intelligence.

Rick said...

PWD,

You can't possibly be this dumb. You're the one with the blog, and Quinton is the one that decides to post, thereby opening yourselves to public criticism. Just because I don't have a blog doesn't mean that I shouldn't be able criticize those who do. Your argument is stupid so I hope your post had more to do with defending your little buddy.

So if I criticize Willie Martinez for the piss poor job he's doing this year, your response would be for me to go coach a college team and show you how it's done?

Sounds stupid doesn't it, Paul?

And I'll say it again: Quinton is absolutely useless.

/waits for PWD to call me a Tech fan

Anonymous said...

No. This is different than that.

I'm saying Quinton's post is better than your comment. He wrote something. Then you wrote something.

Then you said his sucked.
Now I'm saying yours sucked.

We're both using the internet to it's minimum value by resorting to petty name calling.

It's nothing like me writing about Willie's coaching.

Willie can't tell me or you...if you don't like his product don't watch it. Because you paid for his product. And he essentially works for you as the customer.

You get this site for free. I don't work for you. I work for me.

I can tell you that if you don't like our product, you can stop reading it. And because it's free, I don't owe you anything.

See the difference?

I can even go as far as to encourage you to compete with me and put me out of business with your radiant brilliance. If you make a blog better than this one, I'll read it.

Go for it. Show everyone how much better you are at the internet that we are.

But if your sole contribution to the blog is "Your article sucks." My response would be, "Then don't read it."

PWD

Anonymous said...

And furthermore,

I don't mind people criticizing me or him or anyone else. We've written more than 3,923 articles over the past 5 years. We've served up more than 7.6 million page views.

I know how blogging works. I know that if we put ourselves out there that we get criticism.

I know that when we don't blog as much (like lately) we get grief for that. Although, I'm not sure what entitles anyone to more content when they don't pay for it. But whatever.

I'm just sick and tired of petty, lame ass, unfunny, bitching. I don't have time for it.

If you think my blog sucks, read Blutarsky's site. He's on top of his game right now.

PWD

Scott Summers said...

Who stuck the stick up PWD's ass?

Scott Summers said...

Nevermind I don't wanna know. (Quinton?)

Anonymous said...

It's got nothing to do with Quinton.

Rick said...

I stand by my comment. And I don't feel the need to start my own blog just to appease a seemingly very angry and impotent man.

Quinton sucks. Deal with it.

Anonymous said...

Shut up. A bunch of five years olds. "My dad can beat up your dad. Nanananana."

Points made by both. Congrats. Points awarded for both. Congrats.

PWD, don't let Rick pull you down to his level.

Rick, a personal attack is a logical fallacy. Don't try and stand on logic when your foundation is a fallacy.

Quinton, while I did not like your post. I commend you on your creativity. I know there is not much to say that has not been said but try to leave the craziness to Coast to Coast A.M. with George Noory.

Have a good day.

the anonymous suckup said...

I assume this is the same Rick who demanded that I "move on" (repeatedly over a series of posts, no less) when I was apologizing for a less-than-courteous post I had written. Wow. Deeply held convictions about courtesy and when to "move on" sure do fluctuate from situation to situation, no?

Anonymous said...

Ricks' an idiot. It's an interesting post, not the best and not the worst I have ever read.

Rick said...

@anonymous suckup

I don't know you, but you sound like a fatass. First time posting here. It was going to be the last but PWD getting his panties in a bunch has tempted me to maybe stay a bit longer.

I'll say it again. Quinton is absolutely worthless.

However, I do enjoy all the brown nosers that are quick to defend PWD and the sh***Y blog posts. Well done gentlemen. Let me know who wins the circle jerk later.

Blue Gill said...

They are still pissed off that you interrupted their pity party.

the anonymous suckup said...

Rick, I'm deeply wounded. I don't know how I'll make it through the day knowing you have a low opinion of me. Furthermore, why would anyone here be a “brown noser”? What’s the tangible benefit of complimenting the work of PWD, Quinton, and Dawgnoxious? Is there a door prize that I’m unaware of? Most of the people who visit this blog like it. That’s why they visit. Get it? I occasionally compliment PWD and the rest of the crew because I enjoy their work more often than not – and here’s the kicker – it’s free.

Look...this isn't my blog, so it isn't my place to invite you to leave (or to disparage the bloggers, but I digress). But for the life of me, I can't figure out why you are hanging around. I like this blog, so I read it. If I hated it as much as you do, I would have left long ago. In the past, I have visited blogs I didn’t like, and what was my reaction? I stopped visiting. It didn’t seem that complicated to me at the time, and it still doesn’t.

And lastly, your little “fatass” comment betrayed you. In our previous run-in, you tossed the “fatass” term around. So this is far from your “first time posting here”. Why lie? And why not come up with something new? Is calling someone you’ve never seen a “fatass” a pattern of yours that goes beyond your considerable blog commenting prowess?

Rick said...

HA! You've been called fatass before! What does that tell you? It says you're fat. Fatass is a common insult. Furthermore, why would I lie to an insignificant scab like you?

And for the record, I never said i disliked this blog, just Quinton's posts.

That being said, I'm not going anywhere. Get off your high horse. Nobody cares what you would or would not do in a given situation. I have a suggestion for you. Go die in a grease fire.

NTM said...

Rick + Dawg Vent = Awesome

Please go there.

Ghost just told Ditch Witch that he saw Kirby Smart playing pinochle w/ Damon Evans at a Ramada Inn at the airport.

Also, Jamie Newberg just posted an update from a certain Tight End from Pell City, AL *premium membership required*. Everyone's talkin about it.

the anonymous suckup said...

I see the masochist is still here. It’s sad, really.

Anonymous said...

i love quinton

Rick said...

I see the sadist is still here. It's sad, really.

Anonymous said...

I agree that the majority of Quintons posts are either factually incorrect or just worthless. It makes me not want to read the rest of the blog because I have to scroll over his useless nonsense. PWD posts things that are not only correct, but meaningful to the Georgia football and all of the fans reading it. He is the reason I read this blog, and I am glad that Quinton has been posting less lately so I don't have to sift through his crap.

 
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