Former AD in the News...sort of

[SB-50]

"Nine of the 11 members of an NCAA panel that will help decide the Fiesta Bowl's fate attended a bowl-sponsored retreat that included free meals, resort rooms and golf outings.

The nine names all showed up on a 2008 "Fiesta Frolic" attendee list obtained by Playoff PAC in a public records request. The group provided the list to the Associated Press."

(Paul Krebs is among the nine)

From The Detroit News: http://detnews.com/article/20110425/SPO ... z1Kd3ZjhuI

[Drago]

The sooner the BCS is eliminated, the better for college football. Why they don't just do a 16 team playoff with the first round games at home sites, is beyond common sense. This court case will be the end of it eventually, but who knows how long that will take?

[transfer2BGSU]

The sooner the BCS is eliminated, the better for college football. Why they don't just do a 16 team playoff with the first round games at home sites, is beyond common sense.

It's all about the Benjamins!
Show me the money!

The BCS conferences are making over $120 million just from those bowl games. If you make a 16 team playoff and use the rankings, then you have some things happen that the big boys don't -

1. No mid-majors or at least let's keep the mid-majors down to only ONE (OK, if we have to, then we can add a second. Boise State, TCU, and now Utah? Oh no. Not THREE!!!!!!!)

2. So how do we get an ACC school in there if they don't have a team ranked in the top 16 in the nation. Or the Big East?

3. If we have to allow the mid-majors in, and we go to rankings, and we host the first round games at home sites, then we might have to send a major power conference program to a mid-major and they are going to make HOW MUCH MONEY?!?!?!?! And what are we going to get?

[MarkL]

Read Death to the BCS. I really enjoyed the proposed playoff model there. It's forecasted that this model would make the universities more money than they could ever dream of making with the BCS, but the BCS bowl CEOs and the BCS conference commissioners are raking in so much money right now that it's tough to kill the system.