lol - I heard that too. I must've got lucky though. I'm alliance, and got my IBS on my second try. First one we lost in about 10 minutes. Second one took about 45 minutes, but we won.
Whether or not you PvP is irrelevant. At lvl 51 you will be pretty useless in AV unless you are a healer. Just go in, have fun, and hope the lvl 60 folks on your team win it for you.