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Monday, January 02, 2006

BOWL CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES: WOW!


'Counting Saturday, of the 20 bowls that have been played this year, only four have been sellouts. Of the sellouts, only one — the Sun Bowl — was at a stadium with more than 43,000 seats.

Altogether, college football has showcased its game in front of 302,436 empty seats at stadiums from Florida to Hawaii and all points in between. Nine of 20 bowls have been played in front of more than 10,000 empty seats each.'


!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


'[C]ollege football's lucrative but ludicrous Bowl Championship Series …is still a Ponzi scheme masquerading as a legitimate substitute for a playoff system… Down here in warm and breezy Florida,…Penn State and Florida State are preparing for tomorrow's essentially meaningless Orange Bowl.

…Eighteen teams that didn't receive a single vote in the postseason polls will play in one of the made-for-TV fraud fests.'


!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

'[T]he BCS is a profit-taking scheme and not a legitimate competitive series…

There is only one real question to ask … the …helmet-haired, necktie-smooth operators of the BCS: Why do you exist?

[T]he bowls lost their tradition years ago when they sold out to corporations. You show me tradition and I'll show you the Meineke Car Care Bowl in Charlotte. ...[S]chools should stop playing pre-Christmas bowls that fall in the middle of finals...'