So now that David Souter is leaving town and the swine flu has settled down, it is time for congress to deal with some real pork or at least some pigskin. I was just browsing around the web and saw this CNN Story on BCS. I thought it was a classic. The great debate about BCS or Playoffs in College Football. The thought that the BCS schools have a monopoly is valid. The idea that congress should be talking about this now is not.
The BCS is about making money and keeping the haves deep in the dough. The Non-BCS schools want a piece of the action. It is really a microcosm of the political system we will continue to see unroll by congress. If the BCS wealth and be redistributed through a new playoff system, maybe this will be a good practice model for the redistribution of wealth in the United States. To politicize sports is almost as bad as what is happening with religion. The more the government gets involved with the free market the further it moves from being a true free market.
I think that the basketball model for the NCAA Championship is one of the best and most exciting tournaments. Does college football work within that same framework? How many teams would make it. In basketball, 65 teams out of 329 (is that right or is it higher, I can't remember) seams to work well and the bracketologists usually can not complain to much about the teams that are left out. So, in college football, with its 120 or so teams would need 8 or 12 teams to make a good draw. That is about 4 weeks of football. Would it work? Would the bowl system still have games? I would like to know what your POV is on this one... dg
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