In the days since the Good Ol’ Boy network -- known by some as the BcS -- basically told Congress to
Armed with that set of numbers, Boise State president Robert Kustra Tuesday became the latest in a string of public figures to take a whack at the current structure used to determine a national champion.
In a statement that uses the word “discrimination” no less than five times, Kustra blasted the inequity of the current system, and questioned the “half-baked defenses... cook[ed] up” by “politically-connected and expensive consultants” even as the BcS has Congress and the Justice Department breathing down their backs.
“University presidents and others who care deeply about what higher education stands for should take a hard look at the chart. The lesson embedded in this chart teaches that it is fine to employ a system, such as the BCS, where the revenue is rigged in favor of some, at the expense of others, regardless of who performs better. That is the last lesson we should be teaching our students.
This chart tells only a slice of the full story of the BCS’s discrimination. The revenue discrimination is even greater when deserving teams are excluded from major bowls. The BCS system is designed to make it virtually impossible for teams from outside of the six Automatic Qualifying Conferences or Notre Dame to ever win the national championship. Further, the Automatic Qualifying Conferences are guaranteed 60% of the spots in the major bowls, and barring a highly aberrational situation (such as occurred last year for the first time), those conferences, along with Notre Dame, for all practical purposes will be given at least 90% of the major bowl spots each year.”
While invoking Butler’s magical run through the men’s basketball tournament this past March as something that could never happen in football, Kustra ripped one the tired BcS arguments that the current system makes every regular-season game count, something, they say, would never be the case if there were that hedonistic playoff system in place.
“Unfortunately, the BCS speaks with much less candor. For example, a BCS spokesperson stated that “the best reason for supporting the BCS can be summed up in three words: every game counts.” But how do Boise State’s games count under the BCS when four of the past six years we went undefeated in the regular season, and yet never even came close to having an opportunity to compete for the national championship? How did all of those games, and all of those perfect records, count under the BCS? In fact, in two of those four undefeated regular seasons, Boise State was foreclosed from even playing in a major bowl.”
Keep tightening that vice, fellas. Keep tightening that vice until the head pops off like a grape. Until the intestines, like they’re spring-loaded, pop out, leaving nothing but a lifeless body to spin down to the ground like a whirligig.
After hitting a gargoyle first, of course.