The president of the University of Georgia, Michael Adams, who is also the chairman of the NCAA executive committee(whatever that is), had this to say in his demand for a football playoff...
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"...this year's experience with the BCS forces me to the conclusion that the current system has lost public confidence and simply does not work."
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"The television networks -- particularly the one that controls the majority of regular season and postseason games -- have grown powerful in deciding who plays and when they play, and, indeed, whom they hire to coach."
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"The Bowl Championship Series has become a beauty contest largely stage-managed by the networks, which in turn protect the interests of their own partner conferences."
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He said the commissioners of the conferences and the bowls are guilty of "closed-circle decision-making based on traditional contract alliances."
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http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200....ap/index.html
Good to hear.