Pecos 45 said:
bear2be2 said:
You're right, obviously. I hate this "playoff" and its subjective criteria. Half the reason I'm pulling for an outsider is that would be the catalyst needed to get us to eight teams, which takes a lot of the stupid drama out of this silly process.
True.
When they put Condeleeza Rice on the committee many years ago I knew it was a beauty pageant. She had no business selecting the teams for a college football playoff because she never coached, or played the game. I never understood why she was selected for the committee, unless it was politics.
Plus, you didn't vote for Condi Rice, right?
I kid. Remember, a lot of the college athletics landscape was decided by Hodding Carter, who held about the same credibility as Rice did, from another political party.
But I agree, it's political as hell, but the majority of college campuses are tax funded, government owned. It will never escape the idea that's it's a pawn of the big government crowd. And the corruption is in the rules and oversight itself.
The game is f'd, to be blunt. It's a scheme where the larger powers have the abilty to price out competition and rig TV viewership in their favor, becuse presumably, that is what the TV networks prefer.
It will not survive in the long run, because the market really wants pure competition and the market doesn't favor the Big State universities.
The net result is that it's weakened the NCAA almost beyond repair.
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