Money Hungry Hungry Hippo-crites
April 29th, 2005 1:25 pm

The NCAA just added a 12th game to college football’s regular season and claimed its decision wasn’t based on money. This is the same organization that resists adding an end-of-season playoffs because it’s worried about how it will affect its student-athletes’ academic careers.

A 10-game regular season with an 8-team playoff would create, at most, a 13-game season for the champion and runner-up while allowing college football to crown a true national champion. But the NCAA won’t create a playoff system because it’s too worried about losing bowl money, yet fans are supposed to believe this same organization isn’t selling out the student-athletes it allegedly loves for an extra week’s worth of TV and ticket income.

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Alex
April 29th, 2005 4:32 pm

I have no intelligent remarks for these guys. Really, the NCAA and its handling of college football can go straight to hell where they belong.

I used to work in the college sports business, and it is definitely a business, and there is zero altruism or concern for anyone’s student status. Only when it comes time to make an example out of some coach who can’t follow the Byzantine regulations in some effort to seem like they are tough in their stance for “amateurism” does the NCAA ever do anything with the student-athlete in mind.

Then one has to wonder how many “student-athletes” get hurt by the reduction of scholarships since the ones who won’t get those missing scholarships are usually the best scholars on the team, not the best athletes. The best athletes will not be the ones hurt by the scholarship downsizing so in reality the few true student-athletes that exist are really only hurt by the NCAA’s ham-handed regulations.

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