College football and the BCS

All the big time college conference commissioners and other muckity mucks got together this week in South Florida to down some cocktails and play golf under the guise of working on improving the Bowl Championship Series. As most of us expected, the drinks got drank. The tee boxes were never lonely and college football remained unchanged. Some...OK pretty much anybody who actually likes college football, and doesn't view it as a money tree, were hoping the BCS would take some kind of step toward becoming a playoff system, but that didn't happen. Nothing really happened.

The classic excuse for not changing it came from Fox Sports President Ed Goren....

"Five teams go back to campus as champions. If you go into a different system, you have one winner and everyone else goes home a loser."

Well shit, Ed...isn't that the point of competition? Isn't trying to win the game a big objective in college football? How about this? How about if we make it so nobody goes home a loser. How about if every school fields a football team, but they don't play anybody. That way nobody has to go through the humiliation of losing, and everyone finishes the season undefeated. The football players can just walk around campus, date cheerleaders and skip classes like they do now. We'll just give them Saturdays off as well. Everybody can be a winner..except the companies that broadcast college footb...oh wait...that's you.