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To Get Paid To Write Nonsense . . .

By Big Tent Democrat

. . . has not been my fate. I do it for free. On the other hand, Rick Reilly gets paid for it:

Some gifts people give are pointless: Styling mousse to Dick Vitale. An all-you-can-eat card to Kate Moss. The BCS Championship given to Oklahoma or Florida. It means nothing because the BCS has no credibility. Florida? Oklahoma? Who cares? Utah is the national champion. The End. Roll credits.

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Eventually Reilly gets to a good point - we need a playoff in college football. But he starts from a ridiculous one - Utah is the national champion. Couldn't we just have gotten to the playoff argument without the Utah is the national champion nonsense? Here is Reilly's good point:

Call Myles Brand, president of the asleep-at-the-wheel NCAA, and ask him if he and his greedy presidents are going to stand in defiance of president-elect Barack Obama, who wants a playoff and wants it yesterday.

That's the point here. And it was BEFORE Utah beat Alabama in the Sugar Bowl. College football needs a playoff.

Speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on January 07, 2009 (boomark / email).