This article is a painful reminder of how easy it is for powerful financial interests to use sports to line their pockets. In this case, it's at the expense of universities, many of which are publicly-funded and facing massive budget cuts. It would be one thing if the money was going toward laudable ends (as the bowl organizations try to make it appear), but it's just unacceptable to have these bowl games draining money from universities to pay for tropical vacations for a lucky few. At the least, this is a strong reason to overhaul the BCS bowl system. At the most, it's a reason to do some much more serious evaluation and reform of how money works in college sports more generally.
"Bowling for Chumps" by Pete Kotz
Published in The Seattle Weekly, 12/14/11
Eric
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