tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15857498.post1769075988170118312..comments2023-10-31T08:24:26.150-07:00Comments on The Wizard of Odds: A Broken Bowl SystemUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15857498.post-5738679857236712912008-01-02T00:42:00.000-08:002008-01-02T00:42:00.000-08:00Some journalist or blogger needs to dedicate thems...Some journalist or blogger needs to dedicate themselves to exposing the corruption in the current system. A lot of the evidence appears to be right there in the tax records for anyone to see.<BR/><BR/>I don't get why nobody is willing to take these people to task and start dropping names, petitioning to remove the non-profit status, etc.<BR/><BR/>Where is the Mitchell Report for college football?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15857498.post-64298652189749006662008-01-01T12:26:00.000-08:002008-01-01T12:26:00.000-08:00"University officials say ticket allocations and h..."University officials say ticket allocations and hotel contracts dictated by the bowl committees are the driving forces behind the deficits."<BR/><BR/>That's laughable. I love it when these schools - especially those from the oligopoly BCS - act like they're just a bunch of poor kids being bullied. If the schools have a problem with the allocations and hotels, then maybe they should, umm, not agree to them when they sign the contracts with the bowls. <BR/><BR/>A school might run a deficit based on their bowls alone, but the total bowl revenue from revenue sharing means BCS schools are guaranteed very nice profits. Its the non-BCS schools that struggle because they've been frozen out of the big-money bowls (their access to the BCS is token and just enough to prevent a lawsuit the BCS would surely lose; plus they don't play in any of the best second-tier bowls). The non-BCS schools need to either look at a playoff among themselves that would be a highly provocative move that would infuriate the BCS schools, or accept that bowls are a loss leader.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com