Posted on 03/31/2011 9:50:10 AM PDT by US Navy Vet
The Bowl Championship Series is so troubled by the graft exposed in Tuesday’s Fiesta Bowl corruption report that it appointed a special “task force.” Among the members is an athletics director who accepted a free Caribbean cruise from the Orange Bowl just last summer.
Yes, there’s nothing like having a guy – in this case, Southern Mississippi’s Richard Giannini – who takes lavish gifts from one bowl game to judge another bowl game for giving out lavish gifts.
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The NCAA is a joke... as is the BCS bowl system.
If they don't clean house, it is a matter of time before congress steps in to cause havoc.
Make them look good by punishing the Fiesta Bowl
Move that Bowl slot to Jerry Jones's Palace it a win win for NCAA and BCS.
Probably been the plan all along, and they finally found the fall guy.
I can bet that you'll see a whole lot of rats falling out of that little investigation.
I recently read that several BCS teams, including Auburn, actually LOST money by playing in the Bowl Game, after expenses.
That might be the thing that finally gets us a playoff, when the schools realize how much money a playoff system would generate.
all they need to do is look at the NFL contract for television. HUGE. Plus there is more loyalty and merchandising that the schools DON'T have to share with the "student athletes"...hahahahahaha
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