Sunday, November 22, 2009

NCAA football: a sport without a champion IV

Well, the BCS hired a new mouthpiece last week. And he immediately went to work by hiring a prominent public relations firm to start touting the positive aspects of the worthless system. In my last commentary on the BCS, I said, "at least they're honest" in reference to the money grubbing reasons for avoiding a playoff system. Bill Hancock is out to change that. Gone are the public concerns for money money money, which could at least be defended by stating that it was all going to the education of our future leaders. Now its back to scheduling and tradition, neither of which is truly denfensible. Sad days continue, and this year looks like it could be an even bigger failure than ever for the pathetic efforts to determine a true champion. With a month left in the season there are still six unbeatens in the division formerly known as D1 (now the FBS). Scheduling will reduce that number by one or two, but the season may very well end with multiple unbeaten teams who never got to play for a championship... Maybe congress will step up and intervene.