The NCAA proves every year that you don’t have to be good at something to succeed.  Admittedly, they are good at making money.  But when it comes to honouring the sports they claim guardianship over, they are embarrassingly inept.

Not that you need me to remind you of the litany of proofs, but I need to get this off my chest.

Firstly, the BCS.   Really, this is like shooting fish in barrel, but here goes anyway.  It starts with the refusal to have a playoff for the national championship, instead the BCS would rather have a group of figure skating judges and computers determine the 2 best teams in the country and then wait five weeks to play the game.  One of my favourite arguments against having a playoff that they use is that ‘we don’t want to interfere with exams in December’.  So let me get this straight. There is no time for a playoff because the students study for five weeks for their exams?  I think not. If that where the case, then why do they start playing Bowl games on the 19th of December?  The solution isn’t rocket science; just start a playoff on the same day the bowl games begin. Start with eight teams and play two playoff weeks and then a championship game. Now how hard was that?