BCS (Big Cash Scheme)
As long as the BCS v. non-BCS (or haves v. have-nots) issue in college football is dominated by money, and by the conferences, networks and sponsors that are part of the Bowl Championship Series, nothing will change to improve the system, to get rid of the favoritism and corruption, or to make college football more about football and fair competition. Instead, it will only get worse.
The six major conferences and Notre Dame have access to the BCS (which was invented by them as a way to line their own pockets) bowl games and all the money that goes with them, while the rest of Division I-A schools do not. Unfortunately, the non-BCS schools are arguing for the wrong things. They are becoming part of the problem by only trying to get a bigger piece of the money-pie rather than focusing on breaking up the elite Bowl Championship that allows only two schools to compete for the National Championship, closes out non-BCS schools altogether, removes any chance for a fair playoff system and encourages the professionalization of college football.
"I love college presidents when it comes to sports. Most of them know very well how athletics make a mockery of academia . . . well, of course, at everybody else's college. Athletic departments pretty much operate as wholly owned independent subsidiaries of the Corporation of Alumni Amusement."...
Instead of BCS progress, fans get absolutely nothing
SportsLine.com - November 16, 2003
BCS will not change significantly
Associated Press - November 16, 2003
Antitrust investigation planned in BCS dispute?
Associated Press - November 15, 2003
Kowns the only way to make the world
believe they belong is to keep winning.
Both sides agree changes are needed, encluding more access.
The Bowl Championship Series Cartel
Big East, Southeastern, Atlantic Coast, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac 10
