One of my old college professors used to tell us that ‘a camel is a horse designed by a committee’. He didn’t like staff meetings much either. But we all saw his point. None of the really good things in life ever seem to come out of a committee.
But here we are, counting on a committee to sort out all of the problems of the college football playoffs, the first time around.
Our beloved college football is in the hands of a committee. Yikes!
Why not just skip the March Madness next year and have a committee pick the Final Four? How do you think that would go over?
What makes us doubly suspect is that they have put the same guy in charge of the FBS that never could get the BCS to work. Excuse please, but this one is a little hard to figure. Who decided that anyway? If it’s the same folks running the NCAA, that might go a long way towards explaining how this came about.
College football fans have been calling for a playoff system for years and look what they got. A committee who’s very mandates contradict themselves. Bill Hancock, the dubious head of the new system, told the SEC guys recently, “The committee will select the best four teams, period, no strings attached”. Right.
However, there is already a selection procedure in place that specifically says that emphasis should be placed on conference championships when selections are made. Well Bill, which is it? What about standings in the AP poll? The Coach’s Poll?
What kind of a committee is going to know more than those guys do?
All this does not paint of pretty picture for the Southeastern Conference, better known as the SEC. No matter how good the teams of the SEC are, or what their records might be, there seems to be only one chance for any team in the conference to have a shot at a national title. The SEC is not used to that.
But the rules have been changed for us and just exactly what the new rules are have not become exactly clear as yet. There are some major players in the college football like Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany who have said about the new setup, “…I think it’ll be a national process and people have to be very energetic about it. I think it’s going to be great for the sport.”
