There has been a lot of talk in football circles recently on how broken the NCAA system is these days. From schedules to inter-conference games, and the insane amount of money being paid to coaches, while players get nothing at all. Add the committee to the mix for rankings and playoff seeding, and you have a dysfunctional organization that long ago lost control.
I will list several things that illustrate the root causes of some of the main issues in the NCAA today, and what I think should be done to fix them.
Seeding. The most obvious problem is the seeding and rankings done by the committee. It is beyond ludicrous to have teams seeded BEFORE the college football season even starts. I don't care who won the previous year's national championship or top four bowl games. I have always been of the opinion that rankings should not be put out until after the first week of the season, if not the second.
Unpaid athletes. College football players are students, I get that. But that having been said, for all the intensity and energy they play with, and all the huge plays and numbers they put up notwithstanding, these young men need to get a little piece of that massive pie that floats around the NCAA. Ohio State's football program alone brings in more than $1-billion annually. No one can tell me they can't afford to pay their players.
Scheduling. There are too many top college teams out there (looking at YOU Alabama, and Clemson!) that get super soft schedules, often playing un-ranked or second tier teams that are beyond garbage, making little sense other than to pad said top teams stats and position in the conference. Flat schedules and automatic beat downs need to stop, because most of us are sick of watching nothing games. Ever wonder why top programs (Alabama!) get soft schedules? Refer to billions of dollars that schools bring in, a point made in the previous paragraph.
Coaches. This points to money, again. Some coaches in the NCAA make more or even double (sometimes triple) what an NFL coach makes, and that is beyond ridiculous. This not only shows the arrogance of the school paying out the big dollars, but the ego of the coach that actually think he's worth that kind of money. I could go off on a tangent about this alone, but I won't.
And finally.....the committee. The rankings are almost identical every year before the bowl game schedule and playoff games start, the same four or five teams always at the top. You know why? Money is at the root of it, with a rather incompetent committee (to say the least) responsible for the rest. No one on the committee has the balls to change the status quo and actually let the teams play and see who is the best. Nope, instead they tell us who's the best. Brutal, isn't it?
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