Posted on 03/30/2011 4:32:20 PM PDT by Tom Hawks
The Bowl Championship Series is so troubled by the graft exposed in Tuesday’s Fiesta Bowl corruption report that it appointed a special “task force.” Among the members is an athletics director who accepted a free Caribbean cruise from the Orange Bowl just last summer.
Yes, there’s nothing like having a guy – in this case, Southern Mississippi’s Richard Giannini – who takes lavish gifts from one bowl game to judge another bowl game for giving out lavish gifts.
The obvious news from Tuesday’s 276-page Fiesta Bowl report is that longtime CEO John Junker was fired and is in major legal trouble, in part because of the eye-popping way his bowl game was run – $1,200 strip-joint bills tend to generate news interest. The real issue is that the BCS is doing what the Fiesta Bowl originally tried to do: conduct a shallow investigation and hope the party is allowed to rage on.
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Any bets on what party was the beneficiary of the donations?
Bring on a college playoff and pay the players. then they can pay their own way to school if they want. They ain't going to class and taking their own tests anyway, at least the players going to universities with winning football programs aren't taking classes.
So they appointed a guy with experience in graft to lead the blue ribbon panel. LOL
Wonder how much they’re paying the guy to investigate the matter?
Guys like this are why we don’t have playoffs, the bowl games are their gravy train, and they don’t want to give it up.
They appointed a fox to head the panel to find out what happened to the hens.
Sounds like Congress when they appoint a bunch of politicians who were thrown out of office or forced to retire to head up blue ribbon panels that turn out to be nothing more then a big circle jerk where they pad their already heavy tax funded bank accounts doing what we elected the current politicians to do.
Is it any wonder it’s so easy to sell Socialism by telling students in College that Capitalism is full of greedy crooks just ripping off the people?
It’s like Charlie Rangel writing the Tax Code.
Poor baby... he's having a bad day(s) now that his gravy train of 3 decades has come to a halt... probably will get numerous visits from the IRS in the near future.
I could never understand why they did not want a playoff in College Football. Now it’s crystal clear why they were against a playoff.
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