Another BcS Season

We are about 4 days away from the 2011 College Football Season Kickoff and Everyone is excited, well everyone but me. Don't get me wrong, I love College Football, even though the games seem to go on for hours, have no flow and at the end of regulation, if the score is tied, we go to a shootout, errr, I mean a really bad overtime.

I truly love the Rivalries of College Football, Ohio State/Michigan; USC?UCLA; Florida/Georgia; Texas/Oklahoma, etc. And I love how they play throughout the season, I know in mid September Florida will play Tennessee and in October, The Red River Shootout, it keeps the season going.

I think College Football needs an overhaul. The BcS needs to be destroyed and a playoff system needs to be brought in. I hate Preseason rankings, what are they based on? I hate the fact a coach can leave for another job, yet an athlete will have to sit out a year before he can transfer/play.

Finally, There is a lot of corruption in College Sports - Ohio State, USC and at The U. I have a hard time blaming the athletes, even though they need to show some kind of accountability, I have no problem blaming the coaches. They know whats going on with their teams and if they don't, they are really stupid or just plain ignorant. It's time to give these kids stipends, pay them for their service. If it's ok to put a kid on a video game box or sell his number jersey, its ok to pay him.

The NCAA needs to be the solution and not the problem. If they are going to sell their marketing rights, television rights and advertising rights, they need to take that money and give a percentage of it to the kids who are earning it. I don't think this will totally clean up College Sports, but its a start.

I am looking forward to a great season, but I am not looking forward listening to the BcS crap that will follow. I am tired of teams playing cupcakes before their conference schedules kick in, but non BcS schools get criticized for not playing tougher schedules, yet the BcS schools won't play these schools. If one analysts rips Boise State's Schedule, it shows their ignorance to the problem.

Well, I will be back with my college picks soon.