Yes, it is that time of year. We are closing in on D-Day, i.e., what college football teams are going to play for the National Championship. The game is exciting. The D-Day process sucks!

Of course, the real issue is who is controlling the process. A select few conferences, the media, the œBowl Game People? Its all about the money. Dont you think football could have an amazing show such as a real play-off and could do so without leaving anything on the table?

Little Butler University has twice played in the Final Four at the conclusion of March Madness. The Butlers of the football world are NEVER going to have a chance to do that. Whether they could win or not isnt the even a conversation to be had. Under the Bowl Championship Series they are already eliminated BEFORE the season begins.

The National Championship of anything is for the players to decide on the field of play. Deciding who can or cannot qualify in any other way than on the field is, yes I am going to say it, œUN-AMERICAN. Our country has always championed the underdog. College football has dictated that the underdog isnt even allowed to play.

I have a hard time believing that a very small group of people wouldnt be able to sit down and figure out a playoff system that would include the bowl games as stops on the way to a National Championship.

The problem is two things (my opinion):
-Attempting to control which results in the rich getting richer
-A natural way that human beings tend to perceive things called œeither/or. Who says
that we cant have it all?

What if my proposed group sat down with this perspective”Lets see if we can figure out how to get everyone what they want. I am not naïve. There is a chance that compromises may need to be made. My bet is that even with the compromises the player, coaches and fans would feel that the National Champion was really a National Champion.

The National Champion has always been, at the end of the day, the last one standing. I think that team or person has earned the accolades and we havent just posed that everyone has a chance. No one needs to be eliminated before the season begins.

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