I was there at the beginning of the era when big schools stopped scheduling cupcakes. It was largely a money thing then too. You could get more people to come watch Minnesota vs Ole Miss, than California vs Who-knows College of beauty and dog grooming. Things started changing back again when you had a combination of lousy schools like Kansas State that got tired of losing every game, and big successful one's like Penn State that refused to schedule an away game if the opponent wouldn't play them two or three times more often at State College.
Some of the uniforms these days are unbelievable. Again I think it's a matter of money, the major schools getting paid to wear whatever the manufacturer wants them to, so they can make their money selling to smaller schools and high schools.
I can put up with Lou Holtz, though he does tend to bend the truth in what he says as well as in his actions. Woody Hayes was worse. Managed to project an image to people as someone concerned about his team, when he really was only concerned about whether he got what he wanted or not. Not a nice person at all.
The lengthening schedule scares me. When is enough enough? When no star player can make it whole through a season?
The whole championship idea is nonsense. I admit it was frustrating rooting for teams that got less than their due in the polls, but no one but the TV networks and sports reporters win with any sort of BCS or playoff. College football has been the plaything of sports writers since Walter Camp started calling the best players from a small area in the East "All-Americans." So the sportswriter will eventually get their way. There will be a playoff, but it's just another lengthening of a season that's already too long for the sport.
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Some of the uniforms these days are unbelievable. Again I think it's a matter of money, the major schools getting paid to wear whatever the manufacturer wants them to, so they can make their money selling to smaller schools and high schools.
I can put up with Lou Holtz, though he does tend to bend the truth in what he says as well as in his actions. Woody Hayes was worse. Managed to project an image to people as someone concerned about his team, when he really was only concerned about whether he got what he wanted or not. Not a nice person at all.
The lengthening schedule scares me. When is enough enough? When no star player can make it whole through a season?
The whole championship idea is nonsense. I admit it was frustrating rooting for teams that got less than their due in the polls, but no one but the TV networks and sports reporters win with any sort of BCS or playoff. College football has been the plaything of sports writers since Walter Camp started calling the best players from a small area in the East "All-Americans." So the sportswriter will eventually get their way. There will be a playoff, but it's just another lengthening of a season that's already too long for the sport.