goodnight: You have Knight fatigue? Try living in Bloomington.

I got hitched there. Does that count?

I'd hoped Bob Knight would be my best man, but I had to settle for my brother. Just so I wouldn't feel so bad about it, my brother screamed at me and stuffed me in a trash can.

timbuktom: King, I hope you will begin to write in Latin more often. Please feel free to contact me when you need words for things the Romans had no words for.

Thanks. Please feel free to send me (king at) your e-mail address. My go-to guy for Latin instruction is former Salon arts editor, and former Latin major, Bill Wyman. But he didn't respond to my instant message this morning, so I looked at online dictionaries and hoped for the best. I'd love to have a backup, not that, seriously, I have plans to use more Latin.

wes: Is King Kaufman.........related to Andy Kaufman?

No. Also not related to George S. Kaufman, as far as I know, nor to Matthew "King" Kaufman. Or to Lloyd "King" Kaufman. But I'm related to lots of other Kaufmans.

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Had the wrong team capped. Sorry. Fixed now.

Why don't you try excellence in sports journalism instead of stooping to pornography.

I did that for 20 years and you didn't write me one letter!!!

Right. Not Blue Demons. Brain cramp. Fixed.

Ben Z: I know you hate the idea of team chemistry, King, but it sounds like you're coming dangerously close to recognizing it in your refutation of the Rodman hypothesis.

I don't get why refuting the Rodman hypothesis is recognizing team chemistry. Having said that, I hate the idea of team chemistry in baseball. I think it's nearly non-existent there. I think it does exist in sports where players have to interact and use teammates more, such as basketball, hockey, soccer and football.

It's probably overstated there. I think happy locker rooms or guys willing to have each others' backs in bar fights are often mistaken for real team chemistry, which involves, say, the point guard simply knowing EXACTLY what the off guard is going to do in every situation, even if the situation has never come up before, just from feeling it. But I do think it exists.

Jeff: Basketball games, series, and seasons are, comparatively speaking, marathons, not sprints.

Jeff, do you have any evidence for this? I've never seen evidence that a player's play changes, suffers, with increased playing time. I have seen plenty of evidence to the contrary. Check any player's career stats per 40 minutes at basketball-reference.com. You'll find that, once you take changes caused by age into account, for the vast majority, playing time has little effect on those stats.

Wes: If the goal is to have the best team be champion, that would probably be more likely to happen with BCS system, or the previous one of simple sportswriter/coaches poll votes, than an extended play-off with a bunch of teams.

Why would that be the goal? I think the goal should be to have the most exciting, entertaining season and postseason. If the goal is to have the best team be champion, why have playoffs in any sport? The regular season is a better measure of the best team.

Freddie deBoer: I'm sorry Mr. Kaufman

But if you lack either the understanding or the intellectual honesty to admit that being more productive on a per-minute basis is not nearly the same as being "a better player who just didn't play as many minutes", it's frankly better that you don't participate at all.

What's intellectual honesty got to do with it? See my last comment, and point me to evidence that a player's per-minute value goes down as his playing time increases.

And if that's not what you're talking about, then tell me what you're talking about.

But you people are all missing what could be the real story here:

Chris Armour evidently has 30 knuckles.

Chris, can you send me a photo of your thumbs?

You're so funny! It's almost like you're a fictional character who was invented by a professional comedian 30 years ago!

to have relations with himself, which was signed "King Kaufman," was not written by me, King Kaufman.

It's been removed.

Don't do that, people. We'll just remove 'em anyway.

victorycabal: Isn't it kind of ridiculous to compare the head-to-head rates of a 32 team league to a 119 team league?

Not, I believe, if you're making the point I was making, which was that rematches are not OK in the BCS Championship Game, the way they are in other sports' playoffs, because head-to-head competition is so rare among the top college football teams that one shot is all anyone should get.

JStone College football is college football

I guess I can't argue with that.

Nate: Sure, hold a playoff, but what are you proving other than that team A could beat team B on one day?

Proving? Nothing. Like you said, it's just sports. But you are A) providing more exciting games that mean something to the fans, who are B) bankrolling this whole thing and who C) overwhelmingly want it.

timhowe The old system was as good as any, and let the fans engage in good old fashioned bar-stool bantering without needing a multi-function calculator and a hot-line to your lawyer and accountant to join in the debate.

The old system, as bad as it seemed as the time, is looking better and better the longer we have the BCS, I'll admit that. But the one thing that will never ever happen is going back to the old system.

How come I never got a proposal?