{"id":262,"date":"2004-01-02T16:48:06","date_gmt":"2004-01-02T20:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tradermike.net\/movethecrowd\/2004\/01\/smells_like_roses_tastes_like_sugar\/"},"modified":"2004-01-02T16:48:06","modified_gmt":"2004-01-02T20:48:06","slug":"smells_like_roses_tastes_like_sugar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2004\/01\/02\/smells_like_roses_tastes_like_sugar\/","title":{"rendered":"Smells Like Roses, Tastes Like Sugar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/charles.gagalac.us\/archives\/2004\/01\/01\/usc_wins_the_national_championship\/\" title=\"USC wins the National Championship\">Charles points out, USC (PAC-10!) won the national championship yesterday<\/a> with their impressive win over Michigan.  I don&#8217;t give a damn what the BCS computers say about the winner of Oklahoma\/LSU.  Hopefully this controversy will encourage the NCAA to institute a playoff system for football.  I&#8217;d also love to see some of the coaches break their BCS contract and vote USC #1 in the coaches poll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Charles points out, USC (PAC-10!) won the national championship yesterday with their impressive win over Michigan. I don&#8217;t give a damn what the BCS computers say about the winner of Oklahoma\/LSU. Hopefully this controversy will encourage the NCAA to institute a playoff system for football. I&#8217;d also love to see some of the coaches&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2004\/01\/02\/smells_like_roses_tastes_like_sugar\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Smells Like Roses, Tastes Like Sugar<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":22,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/25\/rise_of_international_basketball_talent\/","url_meta":{"origin":262,"position":0},"title":"Rise of International Basketball Talent","date":"June 25, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"This is sort of a follow-up to my earlier basketball post about the foreign invasion of basketball players. 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