Thursday, November 11, 2010

"INCURABLY CORRUPT":  The WaPo's Sally Jenkins decries the BCS for creating a college athletics universe of economic haves and have-nots, and calls upon Congress to kill it by treating BCS bowl money as taxable income to the schools.  (That the BCS also fails to crown a legitimate national champion is mentioned in passing, but isn't so much her point.)

3 comments:

  1. gtv20009:36 AM

    I've been thinking about what would happen if we made it illegal for the rights to broadcast a sporting event to be sold - make the feed available as a news event, anyone who wants to broadcast the event could pick it up.  Would make sports more abotut he sports than the money. 

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  2. girard319:36 AM

    A lot of what's wrong with the BCS is obvious, but no one has an idea on how to break the stranglehold. Tax bowl money? Really? When the money's that huge, I doubt that will end it. Maybe we can charge the BCS with racketeering because that's what it seems to be.

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  3. J. Bowman10:26 AM

    (Insert my usual rant about the sheer folly of believing it's possible to pick a "best" team in this system.)
    (Then, insert some kind of sardonic joke about the Big XII breakup.)

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