A Calming Effect For College Football

By: BE Coleman

There is quietude after two weeks of civil unrest, chaos inside the college landscape.

Within scenarios that led to the near destructive ataxia that was experienced by the collegiate football fan, saw immediate winners and losers.

Perhaps the greatest footnote does not lie within the Pac-10’s land-grab, or for Texas to get the lion’s share of a conference’s revenue as the only points of concern.

The super conference theory that was dolled out would do far more than just bring a new platform unto the game setting. Deeply conceded, but not openly discussed is the damage that many other schools would suffer.

There were no discussions of the cause and the effect for the little guys, which reside within the small playing venues that help to make this game special, were totally left out of the end result in multiple super conference creations.

There was not a single ounce of noted concern given to any of the football programs that each and every BCS Conference member needs to get to through the season.

This is not a push to lobby for schools that the news media have tabbed as Non-BCS Programs, which the NCAA does not recognize as a quantifiable term of description.

It is the hidden identity of what the super conferences would actually represent to the collegiate game. A format built that would squeeze out the smaller guys one by one from within the game in a very short time.

As it has stood, there is the ability and an incentive for lesser programs to make a post season bowl destination when they suit up each September. While these folks are not mainstream avenues, they still have earned the right to compete.

How right is it - in this politically correct termed and often corrupt society we present, to tell the lesser schools they should be classified as being a group of “have nots.” Which many are fine academic institutions.

The BCS schools desperately need the lesser programs to fill out playing schedules as they position themselves week by week for the season end result. The continued push that negates to include the fallout is a bothersome result.

Assume that five of the six major conferences were now 16 team formats. The TV Media would be behind closed doors lobbying school administrators to set up games of interest, beset on the car salesman mocked pitched tune of fandamonial exodus.

There would be so many super conference OOC games, there would be no need for a playoff that many think is needed. They would have already been played out during the regular season. No need for a Jim Mora statement…”A Playoff!”

The super conference OOC games would also alleviate their need for them to play these games. Dissipation would be the mantra, as attrition headlines makes news with shaded empathy – after the fact.

Why should a Texas El Paso, a San Jose State, a Louisiana Tech or Monroe suit up and give players a chance to get into the game, that is the direct fallout of super conferences, for no, zero, nada benefit from scheduling. They will cease to exist.

Examining that, finds the world would have never seen a Terry Bradshaw player from Louisiana Tech lead Pittsburgh to four Super Bowl Titles. He simply would not exist in the super conference mindset. What a waste it would have been to never have seen him play.

One can easily look to present day and find a Brian Urlacher from New Mexico, does not exist. There is no Chicago Bear football for him, should lesser quantified schools be edged out due to super conferences.

Can anyone imagine what it would be like to erase these folks from the agenda? It is quite bothering without question. They help make up the nucleus of college football. What a terrible waste it would be to lose them to advantage only a few.

For schools like an Akron, Ball State, Troy, Tulsa, Tulane, UNLV, Eastern, Central and Western Michigan, North Texas, Ohio, Toledo and a Temple to name a few programs - athletes have a chance to attend a Div 1A – FBS College and compete.

The idea of super conferences may sound good on the surface, but it is what lies within, perhaps underneath that are the end result and total cost to the game that must be examined.

Making money is a fine thing, but exploitation at the detrimental cost of the others is a deplorable pursuit. Yet its all backroom politics for corporate raiders – called “super conferences.”


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