Media members come to Booger McFarland's defense against Danny Kanell
SEC Network analyst Booger McFarland believes that an eight-team playoff would diminish college football’s regular season. ESPN radio host and analyst Danny Kanell said McFarland’s theory can be described with two emoji.
Lol at @SECbooger and all people saying expanding to 8 teams would diminish regular season. People said the same during BCS. That's ? ?
— Danny Kanell (@dannykanell) December 8, 2016
Many media members, however, came to McFarland’s defense:
When Boog speaks, no one lols. https://t.co/ZhZFSwq8CN
— Travis Haney (@travhaney) December 8, 2016
8 teams in 2012, unranked Wisconsin would've had the same title shot at undefeated Notre Dame and 1-loss Bama
See https://t.co/X1Gpp6zUZM https://t.co/DfqdzFdh14
— Barrett Sallee (@BarrettSallee) December 8, 2016
If we had 8 teams in 1995, then it really doesn’t matter whether Warrick Dunn scored at Virginia or not. https://t.co/ohynldvTWz
— Matt Smith (@MattSmithCFB) December 8, 2016
Mattered a ton that Iowa beat Michigan, IMO. Wolverines at 11-1 probably trump Washington. https://t.co/38dTjQNDkh
— Matt Smith (@MattSmithCFB) December 8, 2016
Marcus Spears and Kanell, with a cameo from “SportsCenter” anchor Scott Van Pelt, went back-and-forth over cupcake scheduling and length of the season:
@dannykanell @SECbooger well pull your check book out if you want the dudes to play 16 games that's how many they play on Sundays
— Marcus Spears (@mspear96) December 8, 2016
@dannykanell @SECbooger easy to want more games when you don't have to line down! The thought was good though. Amateurs my (donkey)
— Marcus Spears (@mspear96) December 8, 2016
@dannykanell @SECbooger I get it D this how you do your thing but the teams scheduling them cupcakes got a pretty solid history of winning
— Marcus Spears (@mspear96) December 8, 2016
@dannykanell @SECbooger championships in the last 15 years go take a look at it and see how many NATO champs come from the league that
— Marcus Spears (@mspear96) December 8, 2016
@dannykanell @SECbooger schedules them cupcakes.
— Marcus Spears (@mspear96) December 8, 2016
@dannykanell @mspear96 @SECbooger Charleston Southern, Chattanooga, Citadel, Bethune Cookman ….Should I keep going, Danny? (Fsu opponents)
— Scott Van Pelt (@notthefakeSVP) December 8, 2016
@dannykanell @mspear96 @SECbooger I'm all for a bigger playoff. But when you rip SEC teams and FSU does the same, what point are you making?
— Scott Van Pelt (@notthefakeSVP) December 8, 2016
It’s worth noting that McFarland’s Twitter cover photo is him on the set of Kanell’s radio show, “Russillo & Kanell,” implying there is unlikely any real animosity between the two. Kanell certainly got Twitter talking on Thursday morning.
