College Football: Money talks and ….. NCAA wimps out.

A recent announcement has come out from college football conference commissioners and others who run the current BCS format shows that they are sticking with their money, I mean story. Or maybe I really mean money. College footballs current four bowl, single championship game format won’t change for at least three years.

After meeting for three days recently, commissioners from the football conferences around the country were advised by SEC commissioner Mike Slive to “begin thinking about the future now”. Wow, what a forward thinking guy here.
The bottom line is that they are going to stay with the current fomat at least through the end of the 2009 season. And what is signifcant about that timing? Coincidentally, the BCS current contracts for college football games ends after the 2009 seasons.
I mean how hard are these guys trying to make my point that it’s all controlled by the money. You can read my post about whether there should be a playoff here on the site at: Should there be a playoff system?
I am just disappointed that they didn’t even start to think about or discuss how to change the current bowl system for Division I college football. I didn’t expect a change or even an agreement to change. But I was maybe hoping for some kind of action to look at the issue and start to possibly develop possible alternatives. Silly me!
One final interesting note on this whole mess. Who was this making this decision? College football coaches? Input from former college players in the NFL? Nope, nothing like that; just the conference commisioners for the D1 conferences. Hmmmmm….. makes sense to me?