Playoffs make sense
In an age when public universities can’t afford to hire or give raises to professors, when schools are opening the admissions floodgates to increase cash flow while not providing the infrastructure to help all those incoming students succeed, when public dollars subsidize athletics, elected officials need to ask university presidents why they’re leaving hundreds of millions of dollars on the table by sticking with the BCS instead of switching to a playoff, which could more than triple their money.
Any way you cut it, a playoff makes practical — and economic — sense
The above article played an inspirational role for the WeDemandPlayoffs.com project to some degree, because it finally provided a tangible, adequate reason to ask Congress to get involved. There are other reasons, but in my opinion, the case Andy Staples makes above has the most juice.
Andy concludes his article with the following:
So if you really want a playoff, call your congressperson. Tell them they don’t need to grandstand. They only need to ask a valid question. Why are university presidents spending our money to subsidize when they already have a way to make millions more?
WeDemandPlayoffs.com is here to aid college football fans in favor of a playoff system in contacting their congressperson.