College football savior?
Not to give a mere mortal too much credit, but there’s a university president who might be the agent of change in college football.
Have you heard about Michael Adams?
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Michael Adams became my favorite sports figure earlier this week.
Perhaps his name doesn’t ring a bell. Perhaps it shouldn’t. Adams is the president at the University of Georgia, and on Tuesday, he announced that he’s in favor of an eight-team playoff in college football.
Be still, my beating heart.
Mind you, Big Mike hasn’t actually done anything just yet to put his proposal into action, other than releasing a statement and holding a couple press conferences. And yet, this tells you how absolutely, positively screwed up college football’s postseason is. Hearts skipped a beat when a university president simply admitted what millions of college football fans have known for years.
Adams said, “This year’s experience with the BCS forces me to the conclusion that the current system has lost public confidence and simply does not work.”
Is it any coincidence that Big Mike realized the error of the BCS’s ways the day after his school finished second in the final AP poll?
Thing is, this is the scenario I’ve been waiting for, hoping for even, for years. I figured it was going to take some president’s school being on the outside looking in to stir change. I figured it would take one of them being mad and frustrated before they’d speak up.
I’m just not sure why it didn’t happen sooner. Miami had an argument to be in the BCS title game in 2000. Ditto for Oregon in 2001, USC in 2003 and Auburn in 2004.
Sure, those schools complained, but none of their higher-ups ever stepped forward and said, This needs to change, and here’s what I propose.
Michael Adams has.
Maybe this was meant to be. Big Mike, after all, can do more than just talk about change. He can actually affect it. He is the chair of the NCAA Executive Committee, power that he’s going to need to wage a battle that’s never come close to being won before. Words and actions are two totally different things, but never before have we heard these words about college football from a college president.
“I believe there is a time in a lot of events where there is a tipping point,” Adams said earlier this week, “and this year may have been the tipping point.”
Hey, Big Mike, there’s a lot of us here ready to help you push.
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oh my lord, there no play-off systems in college football!!!! it’s such a crisis i think OU should give back the previous national champioships it claims because they were won without a play-off. makes sense to me.