QUOTE(Frog Attack II @ Jun 22 2010, 08:33 AM) [snapback]585666[/snapback]
I found this reader response to be very telling:
"The gall and irony is thick.
One month it's a hundred different rationale's why the Utah's, BYU's, Boise's, and TCU's aren't worthy for BCS inclusion when it comes to a fair and equal shot at the National Championship. The next it's rationale' for how the likes of New Mexico, UNLV, Colorado State, Louisville, and Memphis are worthy of BCS inclusion at the luxury of one of the 6 BCS Conferences.
One can't help but question the root foundations of conceptual right and wrong... good and bad... truth and falsehood that fosters and produces such logic, reasoning, sense of fairness, and righteousness. "
Man... the entire sport is sick w/ the greed virus. Just another bubble to pop in the near future in my opinion. when they turn this into semi-professional, what differences will there be between semi-pro college football, the Canadien Football league, and arena football? They've completely lost their way IMO - it's no longer about athletic performance of "student athletes". It's about TV sets in your market & the hope that additions to a conference will bring the fat cats more TV Revenue and more wins...
College football remains an amateur intercollegiate game. It carries federal tax exempt status based on the flimsy argument that it's all about education, which the NCAA desperately tries to defend. What could be more ridiculous? It's a full blown billion dollar industry. The college Presidents have knowingly turned the game over to a handful of TV networks, bowls, and conference money grubbers in an effort to allow the few to hoard the most. You are correct that the collegiate, amateur image is what has differentiated this game from the NFL and made it great. The more they try to make it like the NFL, the more they will have to compete head to head with the NFL. Unless the Presidents get off their duffs, we won't recognize college football in ten years, maybe sooner.
