The book "Death to the BCS"

[7220Fan]

This might be old news but I just finished reading the book "Death to the BCS" last night and was wondering if anyone else had read it. I knew that there had to be politics involved to not wanting a tourney but this book blew me away! My God, this thing runs deep and nasty! I knew that college sports were all about money but not like this.

So I have a question. What would happen or could it even happen, if all the non-bcs schools left the NCAA and started there own collegiate association? Is there something binding these schools to the NCAA? Why not start their own association, making new rules towards possibly paying athletes a small monthly dollar amount, not putting a school on probation when a coach takes a kid to get some food because he hasn't eaten in 2 days...etc?? My guess is that there would be some or alot of the top kids in the nation come to these schools knowing that they were gonna make $200 or $250 a month for movies, food, etc... spending money.

The BCS schools would not be able to play the non-BCS schools anymore and losing a lot of the best high school athletes in the nation in all sports, to the new association (along with countless new ideas a new association could bring) would definetely throw the college sports world into mad chaos!! The billions and billions of dollars that are involved with tv deals and corporations and etc.. it would actually make a lot of people step back and take a look!

Just thinking outside the box. Any ideas??

 

[WestWYOPoke]

This book sounds interesting, I'll have to give it a look.

In regards to paying students, that already takes place. I still don't understand how people claim they don't have money for food; only if they grossly mismanage their money does this happen. Students are given a monthly stipend to cover the cost of room & board. This amount is defined as the average cost of room and board for the average student in that particular area (I.E. Laramie). The beauty of this is that athletes will live together or live somewhere cheap which will reduce the amount that they have to spend on rent and leaves them with more money to spend on food, gas, movies, etc.

In fact, the University of Wisconsin had a bit of a problem a few years ago when the news media caught wind of athletes using their extra stipend money to purchase scooters. It blew up into quite a big ordeal with people accusing the University of paying them too much. I found an article talking about it a little bit:
http://ncaafootball.fanhouse.com/2009/04/11/wisconsin-football-like-italy-has-a-moped-problem/

All in all, it's not a bad deal and a lot better than having to work full-time or take out student loans.

 

[7220 Report]

I read the book and I can highly recommend it to others. The BCS is pretty much a Pyramid scheme that looks out for only the interests of the "Big 6" conferences. As far as your question goes, the NCAA does not regulate post season football so there is nothing stopping schools outside of the AQ schools to create their own post season. In fact if the money is there and my guess it is I think it would be a good idea.

 

[MrTitleist]

http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/01/25/non-aqs-munch-on-crumbs-as-bcs-trumpets-fairness-of-system/