To Income-Grubbing College Football Bowl Organizers: Contact Off the Dogs Prior to You Ruin the Game

Years ago going to a bowl game following typical season play was a huge reward and a sign of excellence. Now it has come to be an absolute joke.

What has triggered this sad state of affairs? I’m glad you asked. The answer is money-grubbing bowl game organizers with dollar signs in their eyes. It is all about generating dollars at the expense of respect for the game, the players, and their quest for excellence.

You see there are only 120 main college football teams in Division 1-A, what the NCAA loves to call FBS (the Football Bowl Subdivision). The NCAA brain trust loves extra and much more bowl games for the reason that they believe it promotes the sport, and becomes a dollars magnet.

It also is killing the sport like a wounded animal running for its life after being shot by a sportsman, not realizing that even if it escapes its hunter, it will bleed to death in the course of action.

The plethora of bowl games will at some point cause football to loose its appeal as the number 1 spectator sport in America. That may well sound unthinkable, but I have been covering or watching football for a half century, and can see history repeating itself.

I can try to remember when baseball was king in America, and the powers to be believed it would never stop being THE sport of selection. Then basketball became genuine preferred with rivalries at the pro level. Then football became all the rage. I can recall when pro football games had been not even televised due to a lack of demand. When you reside lengthy adequate and pay interest, you see the cycles creating.

Pro baseball produced the mistake of expanding to a lot more and a lot more teams, and more and much more playoff games. Pretty quickly the good quality of play was diminished, too a lot revenue was involved, and the game became driven additional by dollars than the quest for excellence.

Baseball club owners place crummy teams on the field and people today stopped coming. Some main cities would not even assistance a lousy team. An additional sport then became a lot more well-known.

Right here is the rub: We have 120 important teams and now the bowl season has been expanded to 35 games. That signifies 70 of the 120 teams will play in a bowl game. The predicament has come to be so dire that the NCAA is talking about waivers mainly because not enough teams at the moment qualify to play in a bowl game.

The common these days is six wins among 12 games – that’s just a stinking .500 record which doesn’t genuinely merit the reward of a bowl game. Heck, you used to have to win 7 games to make it into a bowl game. Now there is speak of letting teams with a 5-7 record play in a bowl game because not sufficient could qualify with 6 wins.

This is nonsense. One pernicious result of this is rewarding incompetency.

yalla shoot reminds me of parents who all but force their kid to play little league baseball when the kid could care less. He then plays 12 games on a group that loses every game and, as a reward, they give every kid on the team a trophy so their feelings are not hurt by their incompetence.

Parents also really feel compelled to have images taken of their tiny “stars” and have them put on baseball cards like they are some kind of huge league player. How stupid. The kid learns that becoming a zero counts for anything. He feels like a absolutely nothing and is a nothing at all.

He is denied the blood, sweat and tears of functioning his butt off to really create skills, learn to turn into a group player, and get pleasure from some actual, real life good results – a far additional valuable lesson that will assistance him all through his life.

Last year, 71 teams became bowl-eligible by winning at least six games, and 68 of them played in bowl games. This year, 64 teams are bowl eligible and 20 may be if they win again. Bowl selections are to be announced on Sunday, Dec. 5.

Unless an individual with authority puts their foot down, we may perhaps quickly see 60 bowl games with each major school participating. That may perhaps make an individual a lot money, but the games will be terrible and the players will be cheated out of something incredibly critical – the feeling of achievement that comes from difficult perform and sacrifice, and can’t be replaced.