Eh, I guess. But you're doing it again. You know exactly what I mean, but you're using poor examples to try to counter what I'm saying. That's cool, if you still think 10-4 Nebraska and 1-1-2 USA are the same thing and that MLB (or even the NHL) is the same as FIFA, an organization that even the diehardiest of fans are trashing this shit out this week as a poorly organized group of 17th century retards, it's all you, bro.
We're really talking about degrees of idiocy. With Bettman, I'd be perfectly willing to believe a conspiracy theory that David Stern planted him with the NHL as a method of destroying the competition. And I don't think many people believe Selig is any great genius... in fact, his past attitude on technology was close to FIFA's.
But back to Nebraska... first of all, 10-4 (or any CFB record) is misleading. In CFB, with cupcake scheduling, if you can't win 6 games, you're a terrible, terrible team... you know, the kind that wouldn't make the World Cup final.
So let's toss out the teams that are completely noncompetitive for 2009... FAU, Arky State, ULaLa, and Baylor... now they're 6-4. (Beating teams like that is your qualifier round, like being able to advance past the likes of Costa Rica and Cuba.)
So do you really want to say that a 6-4 team, that lost a 9-7 game to Iowa State, is all that different than a US squad that went 2-1-1 if you count goals that were, you know, goals?