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