So They Are Against Us Too

Believe me, I'm not going to let up on this point until everyone realizes what's actually going on with the BCS playoffs.

Chris Dufresne of the LA Times was interviewed by the Big Lead last week. Here's what he was asked...

Q: You have five minutes with BCS coordinator John Swofford to plead your case for a college football playoff. Go.
Here's his response:
I've had my five minutes with Swofford. In fact, I've spent 10 years talking to commissioners and answering this question and the answer is always the same: There isn't going to be a playoff. It's great for people to talk about but it's not going to happen for reasons that are complex and convoluted.

Basically, the BCS wigs don't want to mess with a spectacular regular season and a bowl system that has existed for 100 years. They don't want college football to become college basketball, a back-ended sport where nothing matters but the tournament.
Don't believe the student/athlete, second-semester football argument. That's a crock. But there is no great desire to change the status quo. In fact, BCS commissioners voted not to change it until at least through 2013.
As a fan, I understand the frustration.

And he's partially right. We're not going to have a playoff. But he's fallen victim to the same old party line. It seems someone hasn't been reading the Play Is Under Review, have they? I've documented the reasons here.
But he says something that I find really interesting. Check this out...
As a writer, I wouldn't change a thing because I would rather write about chaos than a four-team seeded playoff in which team A faces team B on a neutral site because that's the fairest way to settle things?
I don't need fair.
What I need is Jim Tressel refusing to vote in the coaches' poll in 2006 because it would require him to reveal whether he voted for Michigan or Florida.What I need is 34 coaches in the USA Today poll being forced to switch their No.1 votes from USC to LSU in 2003 because they were required by contract to crown the winner of the BCS title game.
Unfortunately, the coaches' No. 1 team didn't make the BCS game, as USC finished No. 3 in the BCS standings behind Oklahoma and LSU.
You don't get this kind of stuff with a playoff.
What a farce is to the public is actually oxygen to me.
Interesting....
So that's why you won't hear writers talk about it. It's easier to just write about the injustice than it is to question the reasons why.
Now it's not just the presidents against us, it's the writers too.