Its funny, listening to these so-called experts whine about how Michigan was jobbed and that there should be a playoff. First of all there won't be a playoff. The university president will never allow that to happen for the plain and simple reason that they control the money in the playing of games. The Bowl committees know that they can throw upwards of 15-20 million dollars at schools and the schools can tithe some of the money to their respective conferences and keep a good deal of it for themselves. A playoff would seriously compromise the influence that these bowls have. The school presidents know where their bread is buttered and that keeps a playoff scenario a pipe dream.
The school presidents argue that they student-athletes would miss valuable school time and that it would not be fair to their fans to make them criss cross the country following their teams. Nevermind that the basketball teams do it every March. Consider that Florida in winning the NCAA Basektball title this past April went from Gainesville to Atlanta to Jacksonville to Minneapolis to Indianapolis traveling to their games. Gator nation was well represented. Don't give me that line that players and fans won't travel.
Plain and simple the BCS is about money and power. The Bowl Committees have the money and the University President have the power. The networks??? Yeah, right they'll whore themselves out paying hundreds of millions if not billions for the broadcast rights hoping that they might get a dream matchup like last years epic. And besides the University presidents argue, they'll be top of the mind awareness for the next 4 weeks six days until the OSU-Florida title tilt as the so-called experts argue and wrangle who should be playing for the title.
The powers that be won't change the system, they make too much money and generate too much buzz the way it is to make wholesale changes
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