BCS = Bowl Corrupt Series

Cat...   I always respect your posts!  But I'm sorta lost on something.  When you talk about OU or teams in the SEC not having to share revenue - are you talking about any revenue, including regular season revenue?  It seems that you are, but I may be mistaken.

If we talk about only the Post Season (which is what the original post was)...   Doesn't the fact that there is such a large discrepency between the revenue awarded (in post season play only) to BCS schools versus non-BCS schools indicate a serious flaw?

Do you think a Caste social system is acceptable?  Where being born to a lower station in life means you will always be a peasant and can achieve nothing more then that!  ......   Isn't that about as un-American as you can get - where the montra is:  Anything is Possible.

If that's the case, isn't the current BCS system for Div1A football un-American?  Fact is, if you judge the current BCS system by typical American "Capitalist" mentality, where the non-BCS schools are essentially lower class, and thus subjugated to the BCS for its pitiful handouts, then the BCS is in fact un-American!!!

Again...  The post season revenue sharing is only the result of a flawed system (an un-American system).  I don't want handouts for BSU.  I don't want handouts for anyone.  I want the system to be FIXED!  Where everyone in the same division (FBS) has the same chance for greatness - regardless of how little or pathetic you were the previous year (or the previous 10, or 20 or 80 years)!!!

Change will come.  One day.  When it happens, I can't predict.  But it will happen.

BoiseAlumn,

Excellent article, excellent points, I kind of enjoy watching our village idiot make a fool of himself.

The thing that all of this proves is that college football, (make that BCS college football), is a multi-million dollar business.   The BCS conferences are not stupid, they have a gravy train in which the conference bottom dwellers make more BCS revenue than any non BCS school.  Even when Boise moved heaven & earth, they were forced to share the Fiesta Bowl revenue with EVERY other non BCS conference & school.  Oklahoma made more money by losing than BSU or Utah, the non BCS entrants, got for winning.  Poor Hawaii only succeeded in keeping the wolf from the door for a year or two.

Let's not compare apples & oranges.  We all understand that teams with huge stadiums and 8 home games a year (often the little guys only get 5 or 6 home games) that they rake in big bucks from the gate, concessions, tv rights, and souvineers.  The bowl revenue is truly a windfall.  That is what makes the system unfair.

The sickening part is the BCS smugness that, like Marie Antoinette, suggests that starving peasants who lack bread eat cake.  The entire system is carefully crafted to keep the twenty or so elite programs on top, give another 10 or 12 a chance every once & a while, and let 1 or 2 non BCS schools get a few scraps to avoid an anti-trust lawsuit in federal court.  The only chance for the nonBCS school is to try & figure out how to move up to a better conference or elevate the status of the entire conference.  In BSU's case neither of these are going to happen. 

We can only try to get better.  Boise St is one of the few nonBCS schools who makes a "profit" from football.  The statistics tell us that of the 112 d-1 programs only about 40 come out in the black in the total athletic budget.  Most break even, and a few like Houston or Idaho run big deficits.  USC, Oklahoma, Georgia, & Texas are four of the biggest winners.  Why would they ever want to kill the goose bringing so many golden eggs?