Seriously, don't understand why the NCAA has yet to get their head out of their own asses in regards to this.
First off, lets look at the claim that the BCS is preserving the tradition of bowl games.
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my ass. The BCS has pretty much made a game like the Rose Bowl completely meaningless as it has no National Title implications, prior to the BCS, a team like say, a Washington or a Ohio State that was ranked in the top 3, had to prove to the country that they were worthy of being called the top team in the country.
Also, there was a time when New Years Day was almost a sacred holiday for college football fans, The Cotton, The Rose, The Sugar, The Fiesta..all in one day! Now? the bowl games are all spread out and the National Championship is a 2 weeks after new years.
2nd
The small schools have no chance at a national championship. Seriously, if you're not in one of the big 6 conferences, you might as well move down to I-AA and see if you could have the chance for a National title in football. Take Kent State for example. Their basketball team made the elight eight in 2002, and was so very close to being in the final four all because they did everything they were supposed by winning their conference and beating the teams they had to beat.
In football? Kent State could do everything possible to try reach and they'd still fall short of the ability to at least have a chance for a National Championship. Win the MAC? That will get you playing in Detriot on Christmas. Go undefeated (even beating Ohio State, for the sake of argument)? You're stuck playing in some now meaningless bowl, like the Orange or the Fiesta on National television. Beat whatever team they face in such a bowl game? Nothing, game over, here's your trophy, no go sit down at the kids table while the big boys play in the real game (likely a blowout that makes the 1980's era Super Bowls look like Super Bowl XXXVIII)
3rd
Why the fuck do you have this talk of disrupting the college athlete in their studies? If this is true, then why isn't the BCS replicated on the other levels of NCAA Football? I have friends that attend Baldwin Wallace a D-III school in Berea, Ohio that play football, is there academic success not as important as some 5 star recruit at Florida State that has attended said university to only play in the NFL? This is such a horseshit excuse. You could give a shit about the kids, if you truly did care, you would make sure that they would recieve money back from having their likeness used in video games and other merchandising.
4th and finally
How does the NCAA not see how much money that a playoff could make them? You look at the buzz and the way people follow March Madness, half of which don't even take the time to watch College Basketball. There's no way that money could be lost in multiplying the importance of the current BCS National Championship game. Fact, people love football, people love the playoffs of any sport, You marry the two together, the whole country shuts down and turns attention to your sport even moreso than what they already have.
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