Looks Like Someone Else Is Tired of the ESPN / BCS BS
Georgia president proposes 8-team playoffs
"[President] Adams insisted he was prepared to advance the proposal even if Georgia had played in the title game.
'It is a matter of fairness and equity,' he said.
Adams said he was influenced by players and coaches. He added that he would let Mark Richt speak for himself, but the Georgia coach had been "positive" in discussions about a playoff.
Adams is frustrated by the power of the television networks, particularly ESPN, and of the commissioners of the bowls and conferences.
'The television networks — particularly the one that controls the majority of regular season and postseason games — have grown powerful in deciding who plays and when they play, and, indeed, whom they hire to coach,' Adams wrote in a letter to NCAA president Myles Brand.
'The Bowl Championship Series has become a beauty contest largely stage-managed by the networks, which in turn protect the interests of their own partner conferences.'
He said the commissioners of the conferences and the bowls are guilty of 'closed-circle decision-making based on traditional contract alliances. It is time to take the ultimate power out of their hands and give it to the student-athletes on the field.'"
