[Bamabeachlivin]

It’s nice to be surrounded by the familiar sounds of December. No, not the Christmas carols that herald in the holiday season. Those have been going on for at least a month now – I walked into a local coffee shop on November 6 and was offered the chance to buy a gingerbread latte and a CD of seasonal favorites.

Now, the traditional sounds of early December are complaints about the Bowl Championship Series.

Those are loud again this year, although, to be fair, the tune is a little different.

For one thing, at least some of the people who opine about sports are starting to grasp the underlying reasons that prevent a playoff system from being implemented. You can still here the occasional thicker-than-most talking head rail about how “the NCAA just doesn’t get it.” The fact is, the NCAA – if that denotes the bureaucracy in Indianapolis — gets it just fine.

The NCAA would be more than happy to have a major-college football playoff and reap the benefits. The current system doesn’t exist because the NCAA wants it to exist. It exists because the major college football powers — now loosely unified under the rubric of “BCS conference teams,” including those in the SEC — don’t want the NCAA controlling all the football post-season money the way it controls the men’s basketball postseason money. Unless those schools suddenly decide to act counter to their own economic self-interest just so the average fan can have a playoff, things aren’t going to change.
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[JRL]

Sounds like Cecil is putting a band-aid on a decapitation. Woulda, coulda, shoulda thinking allows pigs to fly.