Yahoo's Wetzel outs the Bowl system, corruption

Yahoo Sports' Dan Wetzel writes about corruption in CFB's current Bowl System.
Dallas Observer article.

IMO, this should be required reading for any true fan of the sport.

linky:
College Football's Fleecing of American Universities - Page 1 - News - Dallas - Dallas Observer

wow

 

Bama bought their way into the BCSCG ... you'll never prove it!

No way OSU doesn't win the computer polls

 

If you've never read his book, "Death to the BCS", you should. It's an eye-opener.

 

great read, caddy. thanks for the link!

 

"The money is not the reason we have the system we have," says Bill Hancock, executive director of the BCS. "It rewards the athletes at the end of the year with a celebration."

Oh, really ?....This really puts the BS in BCS !!!

It amazes me how people say thing and actually believe that other people accept it as truth. ESPN talking heads are the prime example.

 

Then the playoff would want a little $$$ to rank the teams right ?The more $$$$ the higher your rank , Like the music business Buy a 1/4 page ad you break the top 20, a 1/2 page ad you break the top 15 , a 3/4 page add top 10 Full page ad closer to #1 . So it would just change the name of the rip off, and give some what they want . Playoffs , if you took the top 16 that would be the 13th game if you win , to win you would have what 4 more games or a total of 4. Well how would we know who is really # 2 play a few more games , or the 1 & 2 game the winner would be #1 the loser #2, how bout 3 & 4 ?? since they did not play how would we know the real # 3 ??

 

No, I doubt that would remain an issue. There's nothing at all wrong with using computer generated polls, as long as the process is transparent. (common theme plaguing CFB, huh?)

Even a series of computer polls would satisfy the the basics, as long as the formulas are transparent. In today's world, any given team doesn't know - from one year to the next - what they really must do to be voted into a championship game.

The system is corrupt from top to bottom, and any educated individual can plainly see it. The only reason it persists is for two basic reasons:

(1) the general fan only cares about their own program and has little interest (or perceived benefit) in banding together to improve the rampant problem.

(2) nearly everyone that "owns" the responsibility for governing the sport is on the take - from University Presidents, Bowl Committees and all of their cronies, State politicians, conference officials, and especially the networks involved.

"Money Corrupts. Secret money corrupts absolutely." - Cote'

 

I have a hard time buying that fact, and I had a friend telling me that Auburn sold out their allotment and that stubhub was running out of tickets so they offered to buy tickets back from people at about $4k a pop. That statement doesn't add up.

 

you're correct. I suspect that Wetzel is referencing the portion of tickets withheld by choice .... those that Auburn University withheld for use by it's personnel and invited donors. Those get earmarked from the school's allotment and therefore do not generate revenue directly.

Trust me, those tickets were in very, very high demand.:crystal:

 

Did anyone read the comments?

GusMitchem 1 day ago
The gen pop wants to tune in right at the end and have teams organized in a pretty clean bracket and crown a champion, it requires less dedication as a fan and makes that water cooler talk accessible for even the biggest idiots. See: Superbowl & March Madness





GusMitchem 1 day ago

Great, another pro-playoff article to be swallowed up by the masses. The basis "lost" money is crap, thats why there are conferences.The big dogs help the small dogs, a subsidy for filling out the schedule every year with common geographical opponents in the spirit of competition.

$17 or $34M million for two BCS bowls will support lots of trips for Minnesota.

College football is a season long championship not a lets play just good enough to make the playoffs and then see what happens. Besides that if you have a playoff of say 16 teams I can tell you right now the 10-12 teams that will be in it every year on name brand alone, because that's fair too right !



This cat makes sense. He was probably a big 12 supporter disappointed that Nebraska and Colorado and now A & M bolted for revenue sharing conferences. UT is out on their own because of their Texas TV network. The Pac 12 said, you share the revenue or no go. What's going to happen here is we will be left with the Red-River conference and UT vs. OK can only generate so much interest.

Down here in Houston, the big talk is about the SEC West and does anybody think that A & M can be competitive? They're pissed that Sumlin took the job as well.