AQ Commissioners: Non-AQs should be happy with their place

[FroggieFever]

I believe slave owners used to voice the same opinion!

Bingo!

[leopold]

Let's not be overly dramatic now.......

[EastStang]

I wonder what tune Bebee would have been playing if the PAC 10 had completed the raid they were planning. The Big XII would have been 3-5 teams depending on how the chips fell and he would have been out on the streets.

[West Coast Johnny]

A few points about the coming civil war in college football.
1. Title 9 is SMU's best friend. As a student in the 80s, I was amazed at the size of Univ of Texas football team. Not any more. For every male student athlete, there must be a female. Therefore, the big schools can't overlode. Which means there is more tallent available for the mid major.
2. The entitilement system in college football means more non-AQs emerging as powers. Boise has to earn every penny while schools like Baylor get large check's even if they suck.
3. There is something terribly un-American about the BCS. Last year, Butler was within one shot of upsetting Duke in men's basketball championship. Its the kind of dramatic David Vs Goliath story that makes athletics fun. If Olympic hockey were run along the lines of the BCS, the mirracle on ice would have never happened because the Soviet Union would have been declared the champion by a vote of conflicted stake-holders.
4. My god, the bowl system is stupid. The conferences are obviously annoyed that there isn't a Big 10 / Pac 10 matchup in the Rose. The Orange, Sugar & Fiesta were all jealous of the Rose because the Rose would get two large schools with major markets from east to west every year, while the Orange, Sugar or Fiesta would be stuck with the Big Least team, or worse yet the BCS buster. So they decreed that if the championship team takes either a Pac 10 or Big 10 team, the Rose had to take the Buster. Well, guess what? It creates the ludicris scenario where Stanford plays in Florida while Connecticut plays in Arizona - venues so distant from the schools that I'd be surprised if the stadiums sell out.
Its just a maatter of time before college football is split among AQ & NonAQ lines where the non-AQs are basically relegated out of fotball.

[PonySnob]

Its just a maatter of time before college football is split among AQ & NonAQ lines where the non-AQs are basically relegated out of fotball.

Couldn't be more true......the window to be the next TCU in football is very small for SMU.

[docabel]

You know these BCS guys have to be mad as hell that 8-4 UConn is in a BCS bowl while Michigan State and Stanford have to go elsewhere....

Why would they be upset by this? UConn/Big East is in a BCS bowl, thereby they get to keep the money in the AQ conferences. What made them mad was last year, when both Boise and TCU got into a BCS bowl, taking away money from the AQ conferences to the non-AQ's. They don't give a flip about the "student-athlete" or the "tradition of bowl games". They care about the $$$$.

[Stallion]

What he is saying is that the monopoly and uncompetitive BCS restrictions are limiting Bowls, Universities and even the viewing public in the options and choices availiable. Those bowls are not competing against each other-instead they have an agreement not to compete against each other. Six BCS Conferences each with their 8-9 Bowl affiliations and BCS restrictions on selection of Bowl teams are not allowing free enterprise the most desireable bowl options and choices in the market