So, all of a sudden, something comes up on my favorite subject *sarcasm*...
The B$C$, and the fact that the whole blasted shooting match is crooked.
We already have, now, both schools in the national title game under NCAA recruiting violation investigations. (Oh, and, last I heard, Carolina is openly considering taking $Cam #1. Cha-ching, you heard it here first. All bought and paid for.)
We have the coach of Ohio State now admitted as to withholding information from the NCAA regarding the suspensions (why the Hell has Michigan State not sued Ohio State for millions, because if Ohio State were made ineligible, Michigan State goes to the Rose Bowl and probably sends Wisconsin to the Sugar).
And now, the Fiesta Bowl may be finished!
The Fiesta Bowl fired it's CEO on Tuesday, and will be forced to justify it's continued inclusion in the B$C$. ESPN post is here.
Among the releases in a "scathing internal report" on Tuesday:
- Reimbursement of political contributions of staffers, a violation of campaign law.
- "Excessive compensation"
- "Inappropriate expenditures" -- probably meaning bad expense accounts
- "Inappropriate gifts" -- big question there is to WHOM...
It's already apparent that Jerry Jones' new sports palace (and the Cotton Bowl game now held in it) want to be first in line if the Fiesta gets tossed.
But I have to laugh at the executive director of the BCS (Bill Hancock) and the Chairman of its President's Committee (Penn State President Graham Spanier) with this statement, quoted from the article:
"We are deeply disappointed and troubled to learn of these findings related to the Fiesta Bowl. Unprofessional, unethical or improper behavior is unacceptable. There is no place for such activities in higher education or in collegiate sports. It is expected that all parties contracted with the BCS will live up to the highest standards. We do not wish to be associated with entities that believe otherwise."
OH, REALLY????
Where would you like me to begin, gentlemen?
- The NCAA appears to openly allow the buying of a prominent quarterback by Auburn University to allow them to win the SEC and BCS National Championships. This fact, disputed by almost nobody, appears to be leading to this man being named #1 in the upcoming NFL Draft (not that $Cam will play a down for the next year or two, at least!).
- The entire Auburn team is now under investigation for a literal laundry-list of Pay For Play schemes which may involve everyone from politicians to gambling interests to the FBI. And where there's "gambling interests" of this type, there's The Mob.
- Their opponents in the B$C$ Farce Final, Nike U, are also under the gun for an NCAA investigation. Two men with ties to multiple recruits were paid to get their signatures on the dotted line.
- Ohio State should be banned from college football for the baloney that seems to go all the way to at least Tressell, and has cost a (at least on the surface) more worthy school the prestige, recruiting, and money of a Rose Bowl bid.
- And now the Fiesta Bowl...
Your entire organization, gentlemen, is a criminal -- fucking -- SHAM.
The BCS is meant to benefit about ten schools, three of which (at least!) having no business fielding teams at all! But, in the name of keeping the national college football championship to as few schools as possible, you and the sham of an NCAA (whom I believe, frankly, wants nothing to do with major college football except reap the profits!!) have festered an anti-competitive system which is now showing it's criminal side.
(Not to mention the 10% (at least!) of players with records themselves.)
We now have four of the five BCS bowls tainted from this year: The Fiesta through CEO malfeasance, The Rose because Wisconsin had no business in it, The Sugar because Ohio State has gone off the deep end, and both teams in the National Title game.
So, what, the only legitimate BCS game this year was one between two teams no one outside the campus communities gave even one damn about, much less two?
