"Death To The BCS"
Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2010 2:15 am
New book out by Dan Wetzel and a couple other Yahoo Sports writers. Good stuff so far. Some of the detail behind the shadiness of the BCS is interesting. Predictably, it rakes Jim Delany pretty hard - public enemy #1 behind the BCS. The amount of power and influence he has on cfb is pretty unreal, and disgusting.
Interesting bits on Vince Dooley who spearheaded a viable concept for a playoff in 1994, and was working with the NCAA on a plan, but was forced out of the picture by the pull of the then SEC commissioner who was a powerful backer of the system we now have.
Fucking SEC. :brad:
Though, with Dilbert running my team's conference, I don't have much room to talk.
Talks about how a playoff would generate a lot more money than the BCS, including admissions of that from Delany. Problem is, the people currently in power wouldn't see nearly as much of that money as they do now. Hence, no playoff. Talks about the litany of lame excuses the BCS has thrown out as to why a playoff wouldn't work. Also about how they once purported themselves as a charitable organization since they're a "non profit" entity. In fact, it's not a formal entity at all, which is what makes going after it so difficult.
It goes into the sham of advertised bowl "pay outs" and how conference revenue sharing is the only way for some schools not to take huge losses after forced ticket expenses, travel, and other costs associated with playing in the game. The writers also offered up a legitimate alternative to the BCS involving a 16 team playoff that would include conference champs and five at large teams, in concert with bowl games. One of the BCS cronies (I believe the Pac commissioner) acknowledged it was the "only alternative" to the BCS he thought would work.
Interesting bits on Vince Dooley who spearheaded a viable concept for a playoff in 1994, and was working with the NCAA on a plan, but was forced out of the picture by the pull of the then SEC commissioner who was a powerful backer of the system we now have.
Fucking SEC. :brad:
Though, with Dilbert running my team's conference, I don't have much room to talk.
Talks about how a playoff would generate a lot more money than the BCS, including admissions of that from Delany. Problem is, the people currently in power wouldn't see nearly as much of that money as they do now. Hence, no playoff. Talks about the litany of lame excuses the BCS has thrown out as to why a playoff wouldn't work. Also about how they once purported themselves as a charitable organization since they're a "non profit" entity. In fact, it's not a formal entity at all, which is what makes going after it so difficult.
It goes into the sham of advertised bowl "pay outs" and how conference revenue sharing is the only way for some schools not to take huge losses after forced ticket expenses, travel, and other costs associated with playing in the game. The writers also offered up a legitimate alternative to the BCS involving a 16 team playoff that would include conference champs and five at large teams, in concert with bowl games. One of the BCS cronies (I believe the Pac commissioner) acknowledged it was the "only alternative" to the BCS he thought would work.
