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Death To The BCS: The Definitive Case Against The Bowl Championship Series (2010)

by Dan Wetzel(Favorite Author)

3.93 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1592405703 (ISBN13: 9781592405701)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Gotham

review 1: Pretty eye-opening book. What Wetzel does best is shed light on how the bowl system really works and the waste of funds they truly are. He also makes a great case that a 16-team playoff, in which each of the 11 FBS conference winners would gain entrance into, would end the mindless conference realignment that is destroying the true beauty of college athletics - its rivalries. This is good reading for anyone who loves college football. It's also a fast read.
review 2: Death to the BCS has good ideas... that could fit in a long form article. The book was stretched out with the kind of ignorant rhetoric that peppers politics - name calling about "fat cats" and whining about "welfare" for the conferences. I felt like I was reading a tea party screed. When I hear th... moreat kind of talk, I start to think that there's probably information/ nuance I am not getting... which is sad, because the BCS is a ridiculous system and a playoff seems to make sense. There's only one pro-college-playoff assertion in the book that I think is spurious - that fans will flock to Nebraska or Wisconsin or Michigan in early January. That kind of weather is rough. Not enough to make the game unprofitable, but those games might not sell out.And the stretch marks! The book was repetitive, a rhetorical drumming with a fundamental misunderstanding of American business - American businesses have never held fairness as their ideal, they've tried to dominate a market by any means legally allowed. Oligopolies and monopolies are the goal. Calling the BCS "unfair" and "unAmerican" because of their monopoly power belies an infantile understanding of the country we live in, an infantile understanding parroted by pro-business conservatives to the voters who sop up those platitudes, not realizing they are voting for less choice. Good idea, tough writing to read. less

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