April 30th, 2008
Well, it looks like there will be no plus-one game for college football. And that sucks. I think the plus-one format would have been a better way to figure out who the “true” national champion is and it would have been one step closer to a true play-off system.
I’m convinced that one day the BCS commissioners and Notre Dame will realize that they can have all their bowl games and they can have a play-off at the same time. And I’m pretty sure that they could make more money than they do now.
Filed under: Conference News
Tags: bcs, bowl game, national champion, notre dame, play-off, plus-one
April 18th, 2008
This makes me sick.
Congress is calling for the Justice Department to look into whether the BCS is an illegal enterprise. Is this really all Congress has to do these days? This and the baseball steroids investigations are monumental wastes of taxpayer dollars. With the other problems in this country that need to be solved (Social Security, illegal immigration, pork barrel spending, etc), you’d think that Congress could find something else to do with their time ad not waste my money on investigating the BCS and steroids in baseball.
Don’t get me wrong, I think the BCS is crap and needs to bew scrapped for a play-off system (which I’ll outline one of these days). But I think that is a change that should (and eventually will be) brought about by the demand from fans and the realization from college presidents that more money can be made from a play-off. It is not a change that should be legislated. Nothing good can come from the government interfering with the NCAA operations (no matter how flawed they may be).
The thing that really angers me about this is the timing of it. This was not the first year of the BCS. It’s year 10. Why the need to investigate now? I’ll tell you why: sour grapes. Check out who one of the bills sponsors: Lynn Westmoreland, Republican-Georgia. That’s right, a Georgia guy sponsors the bill the season after Georgia fans felt they were unjustly left out of the BCS championship game (which they weren’t). And this isn’t the first time lawmakers from Georgia have wasted my money to try and change the BCS. (Here’s the actual bill). The elected officials of Georgia need to cut this kind of crap out before they embarrass themselves any further. This kind of stuff only makes them look petty and childish. GET OVER IT! NEXT TIME WIN YOUR DIVISION!
Bottom line: the BCS needs to change, but involving the federal government is not the way to do it.
Filed under: Preseason news
Tags: bcs, georgia bulldogs, ncaa, play-off
