Monday, December 11, 2006

Hey BCS Honks!! Stop "Caring" About The Student Athletes

                                             

This time of the year centers on the BCS fighting in the college football world.  And why not?  It sucks.  We all know it sucks....but the money is too good to change anything now.

So...just admit it.  Admit it.  Just say, "look, we make a ton of guaranteed money right now and aren't really thrilled about giving that up for a stupid playoff."  That's fine.  At least you are being honest.

Just don't drag out that garbage line about "a playoff would force the student athlete to miss classes."  Bull-corn!!!  That could be true, in some ways, but it isn't the reason they refuse to make a Division I football playoff.  Here's why.

YOU LIKE THOSE CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES:  Oh, but those conference championship games that everyone loves so much don't force students from their classrooms?  I guess that Florida and Arkansas athletes weren't inconvienenced at all that they had to travel to Atlanta to play an extra game.  I'm sure they attended every class.  These conference title games have become gold mines for conferences that the ACC was willing to throw 50 years of basketball history under the bus to get in on this money.  Puh-leese!

YOU APPROVED THAT 12TH GAME:  Remember that??  This was the first season under the new 12-game season format.  So...instead of having 4, 6, 8, 12 of 16 schools play a few extra games....you are cool with all 100+ football programs running out for that extra game.  And that game is usually an invite to a lower tier school so they can be stomped, you can sell out your Big Houses and Stadiums and pimp your program to fat cats with big checks. 

MARCH MADNESS:  Sorry, but....March Madness.  It is the pinnacle of playoffs in American sport.  Those kids miss a few days of class, don't they?  And when is the last time any school declined an invite to the NCAA's so their guys can concentrate on schoolin'???  Heck, there was even a floating idea of expanding the tournament to 128 teams this past spring.  Whomever makes the Final Four misses the same amount of time as the finalists for the NCAA football title tilt.  And I'm sure all those kids who camp out in Krzyeywyyskajfskkuuerkski-ville all attend every one of their classes too. 

THE FANS:  Get out of here! Don't give me that lame excuse.  You know...the "but the real fans won't travel with the team for multiple games" excuse.  Now, I'm not into using the bowls in a playoff....but stop crying for me, Argentina!  How many actual students [you know, the people who attend the school and for whom the team was meant for] will be able to go to the BCS Championship game in Arizona??  Probabaly less than 1,000.  The rest go to corporation guys, friends of the program and rich idiots on Ebay.  Oh, and since Fox is now doing the games....I'm sure the cast of "The War At Home" and "House" will be all up in the stadium. 

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