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Monday, January 10, 2011 | 12:24pm
SOUND OFF: Is The BCS Bowl System The Best of All Evils?
Should we leave well enough alone, destroy and rebuild or make modifications
#BCS #CollegeFootball #FBS
Its been about a month and a half since either National Championship candidate has played a down and yet the media has been hyping the #1 vs #2 showdown since. They’ve been selling us a bill of goods of a perfect system to determine the National “Champion”. But we all know better. College sports fans, even the President knows the only way to truly determine a National Champion is via some sort of Playoff system. But given extended absence from classes, NFL scheduling, combines, the fact that in football you “can” only play once per week, its made such a system more of a dream than any reality.
So we’ve been pacified with this BCS Bowl system which has determined years in advance which conferences it determines are the “best” and thus their teams eligible to compete for the chip. But clearly its not perfect. Not even remotely. So SOUND OFF: Is the BCS Bowl System The Best of All Evils?
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I don’t care how pretty they paint it: the BCS stinks simply because the championship is not really decided on the field, but by popularity and stats. ALL other divisions settle it on the field. Other NCAA sports settle it on the field. The BCS is CRAP. A hundred years ago, seemingly, I was fortunate to have been on a team that was in a football playoff system, and we were national champions. Priceless.
As long as the players don’t get paid they better NOT have a playoff. The Bowl System and the BCS is a joke but that’s ok because the national championship is still an opinion and not a fact. It’s bad enough that all the games are on CABLE(ESPN), the Rose Bowl was on cable, that was a damn shame. The TV contracts pay way too much to the NCAA and the schools for them to create a true playoff. There would be absolutely no difference between college and the pros if there was a playoff system. They know they have to avoid that or else they BETTER pay the players.
The NCAA will NEVER pay athletes. However, as Mark Cuban pointed out, a playoff system would bring substantially more money to the NCAA. What they would prolly do in that case would be to raise the stipend they give to players and maybe let them get some royalties from sales of video games, jerseys, etc.