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Topic: Trying to make a name for herself?

Topic: Trying to make a name for herself?

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Diamond Cat
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Trying to make a name for herself?

Posted: 1/2/2012 12:59:47 PM

This lady just left the Oregonian and is now with the WSJ. Is this her new discovery of controversy? No surprise she graduated from the over rated Weak 11/12/13/14.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204720204577130893202202710.html#articleTabs%3Darticle

Pataskala
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RE: Trying to make a name for herself?

Posted: 1/2/2012 1:45:04 PM

Yeah, probably. Since she's writing for the WSJ she's trying to be a free-market capitalist but without the background or the basic knowledge that most WSJ writers have. Her article ignores two points. First, one reason why no school from an AQ conference has been in the BCS championship game is because the system is rigged in favor of AQ schools. Until five or six years ago only teams from one of the big 6 (now, AQ) conferences were allowed into the game, and since then non-AQ conferences don't get in because the AQ schools came up with the formula for determining the teams that play for the championship. It's only when AQ schools get screwed (like this year) that people scream how unfair it is. Second, by keeping non-AQ schools in the mix for BCS bowls -- but not the championship game -- the AQs keep Congress, the Justice Department and maybe a bunch of state attorneys general off their backs. The word "antitrust" sends chills down the spines (if they have any) of most AQ ADs; actually I'd like someone to investigate the legality of forcing the USAT/ESPN poll to proclaim that the winner of the BCS championship game is the poll's national champ. They'll have less to worry about with Boise, TCU and Houston moving to the big time, but there will ALWAYS be a non-AQ team out there flirting with an undefeated season, a la BYU a few years ago. People rise to the level of their incompetence and she's made it to her level. (On that note, even though she spells her last name differently, I wonder if she's related to Michele?)

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L.C.
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RE: Trying to make a name for herself?

Posted: 1/2/2012 2:49:45 PM

It's one thing for her to criticize the system, and altogether another to propose something better. Here are a few problems I see with her article:
1. For one thing she ignores the fact that the FCS teams cost their Universities as much, or more, than the non-AQ FBS. Forcing those schools down a rung would make them less competitive, but would not decrease their losses. Did that solve anything?
2. The real losses from a football team are not from the team itself, which does produce revenue, but rather from the fact that the Title IX requires there to be an equal number of female athletes, meaning a lot of non-revenue producing women's sports, all of which lose money.
3. Next, she ignores the fact that these "power teams" need to have someone to play. Only 14 teams have made it to the the BCS Championship game, so, let's take her example to the extreme, and have a top division that consists of only those 14 teams, and they each play a 13 game round-robin schedule. OK - you'd see some very good games, the best against the best. But, guess what - now half of those 14 teams would have a losing record ever year. Hypothetically, suppose OSU was in those 14 teams, but had a losing record every year. Would that help or hurt fan support? Would that increase or decrease revenue? Would fans be happier, or not? Before going this way, you need to answer those questions.

If you follow her logic, perhaps the logical thing to do would be to separate the football teams from Universities, and make them into independent businesses. The ones that lose money would vanish. Without the money losing football teams, athletic departments could dramatically reduce expenses. With 125 male athletes gone, they could also eliminate offsetting women's sports, and lose an additional 125 female athletes. Sports like women's volleyball and basketball would remain, of course, as would men's basketball, but a lot of minor sports could be eliminated at a big savings.

There is actually a precedent for this change, by the way. Years ago football teams were sponsored by businesses, who, to get better, would employ "ringers". Later on the teams were spun off, and became independent. The Green Bay Packers no longer are employees of the Indian Packing company, for example, and the Bears are no longer called the Decatur Staleys after the A.E. Staley Food Company.

Last Edited: 1/2/2012 2:56:29 PM by L.C.

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