Will Latest Fiesta Bowl Scandal Mark the Beginning of the End for BCS?
The Fiesta Bowl scandal has been a disaster for the BCS. Spending bowl money on flowers, strippers, birthday parties and politicians isn't a good look.
In wake of the 276 page report the NCAA released last week, prominent people in Arizona involved with the Fiesta Bowl quickly tried to cover their tracks according to the Tucson Observer:
"The Arizona Republic has learned that three state lawmakers over the past 48 hours wrote checks to reimburse the bowl for free football game tickets, while others hustled to the Secretary of State?s Office to amend their financial disclosure reports to list freebies from the bowl as gifts, as required by law."
The fall-out has been brutal for college football and the odds of switching the postseason format is better than ever.
The Fiesta Bowl got busted, but what about the other BCS Bowls? The NCAA needs to investigate all of them and make sure they aren't going to find another Fiesta Bowl situation.
Imagine the backlash if news leaks out that the Sugar or Rose Bowl is just as bad?if not worse. The dominoes are beginning to fall and the system as we know it is crumbling before our eyes.
We are locked into this system for at leas the next year, probably two, but situations like this do nothing but help fans that want a playoff?which I think is every college football fan.
The BCS is in place because of the massive amount of money that is made. When the public finds out some of the troubling things that money is spent on, it's time for a change.
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