The BCS Proft Share

Steve Campbell of the Houston Chronicle: Contrary to popular belief, the BCS isn’t an actual entity. The BCS is a five-bowl arrangement (Fiesta, Orange, Rose, Sugar and National Championship Game) managed by the 11 NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly Division I-A) conferences and Notre Dame. Six conferences — Big 12, Big Ten, Southeastern, Pac-10, Big East and Atlantic Coast — plus Notre Dame (if it meets certain criteria) have automatic qualification (AQ) into the BCS bowls.

The top two teams in the Bowl Championship Standings — a compendium of two human polls and six computer ranking systems — meet in the title game. The automatic qualifiers, along with a pool of at-large teams, fill out the other spots in the lucrative BCS bowls. A team from outside the AQ conferences can earn an at-large bid by finishing in the top 12 in the BCS standings. The BCS bowls are not contractually obligated to take more than one team from outside the AQ conferences...

So here we have it: the BCS is a group of people who got together to ensure that they, and their respective institutions, are guaranteed money. Let's not beat around the proverbial bush. It's as clear as any truth can be. Someone sat down and said, "Psst! Hey guys, listen up. Great idea here. What if we all got together and created a system that guaranteed all of us obscene annual revenues? What if we presided over this system so that we could decide who's in and who's out? What if we pretended that we were doing it under the guise of 'fairness?' "

I've studied a lot of American history and government in the past 20 years. It fascinates me, all the secrecy and goings on behind the scenes. The Federal Reserve Bank, a privately owned corporation, controls the United States government, and thereby its people, through the regulation of money, inflation, and interest rates, constantly holding the government and country in a perpetual state of debt through the interest the government owes the Fed for the manufacture and, in essence, sale of money to the government. The Fed runs the show, and you're fooling yourself if you don't see that. It institutes organizations, it influences and "suggests" legislation, and in essence passes its own laws into existence through the United States government. It gives itself power. It's never been audited, and recently, it's had trouble explaining the "disappearance" of several trillion dollars. The Federal Reserve Bank Corporation is not only above the law; it is the law. It is accountable to no one. This is simple, historical, proven, obvious fact.

The BCS is no different. I'm no conspiracy theorist; I like the truth. And with this particular topic, I can't ignore the obvious, and I don't think any respectable college football fan can ignore it either. This is, plain and simple, a system of itself, by itself, and for itself, that decides its own members, and guarantees itself huge profits at the expense of those on the outside. As Mr Campbell wrote, The BCS bowls are not contractually obligated to take more than one team from outside the AQ conferences. Does it get any more blatantly exclusive than this?! BCS Members have simply formed their organization, created memberships, and guaranteed themselves insane amounts of money through their "bowl championship" system, giving themselves the exclusive right to decided who gets into that bowl system! If they don't want you and your school, you don't get in. Too bad, so sad.

How is this in any way fair and ethically correct?

The BCS, under the premise of "fairness" and "crowning a true national champion," has usurped the sport of college football, taken away the level playing field, and forced a large number of schools into sporting oblivion. Each year another "champion" is heralded as the best team in the land, without going through an elimination-style playoff system. Each year that "champion" is from the Big 12, Big 10, SEC, Pac 10, etc - one of the six major conferences in the BCS. Do you think that one of those "at-large" teams will ever win a national title under the BCS? Do you think those corporate bloodsuckers who run the BCS would ever allow that to happen, as it would take money out of their hands and place it into the hands of some supposedly insignificant little school in the middle of nowhere?

The BCS is about one thing: guaranteeing sickeningly large amounts of revenue to the six major college football conferences, exclusively, at the expense of any other team it deems an "outsider," and at the expense of hardworking, tax-paying fans, while operating under its own rules and regulations, that have thus far been untouchable.

Why else do you think teams like Florida, Texas, USC, LSU, Oklahoma, and Ohio State keep winning national titles even with one loss going into the title game, and teams from "insignificant" conferences with undefeated records are kept from even playing in the title game in the first fucking place?! Folks, it's no coincidence that every single BCS National Champion has been from one of the six major conferences that comprise its membership.

How much more obvious do we need this to be before we decide that it's nothing but an exclusive, biased, revenue-generating, sports-based profit sharing scheme?

Do you believe in the Federal Reserve Bank? Do you want to sell Amway? In that case, the BCS is for you. And I have a bridge in New York to sell you. Give me a call.