by Michelle Richardson

Please let it be known if your team isn’t anything great your team probably had at around a .500 schedule and I’ll be honest I grew up in the 70s and we didn’t have this many games. So for the NCAA to play bowl games beyond Christmas you can be just an average team and you can get in somebody’s toilet bowl. It’s sad but I can appreciate that some of these kids get to play a little bit longer, but to me it really dilutes the product.

Your just playing to be playing these games why don’t you just play king of the mountain and throw it up in the air it’s really diminishing. It used to be about the Cotton Bowl, the Rose Bowl, Peach Bowl, Sugar Bowl, and the Orange Bowl. Those were the bowl games that you had to be a part of. There were only about five of them and then after that that was it and now it’s like way too much. I do understand for the mid majors I do understand it.

Two weeks of this utter garbage football I must say the Central Michigan-West Kentucky game was a tough fought game as W.Kentucky got by 49-48 for the win. If it wasn’t for the two points West Kentucky would have lost that game on Wednesday. It was all Central Michigan in the fourth quarter of the game and they fell short at the final gun now that was a bowl game. West Kentucky was up by 40 points and then the game was tied up.

Were simply not getting the best product and it used to be when you were kids New Year’s eve and New Year’s day that’s what you did you sat and watch college football because these were nothing but the best games. That’s pretty much how it is now with a lot of extra games to watch before that if your that much more of a football junkie God bless you. Please watch and watch until your heart’s content, but there are fans who are getting disappointed in the utter commercialization of what it’s suppose to be.

NCAA and the conferences it’s kind of spinning to an end but yet you can’t pay the athletes, your getting off on a non-profit status because of everybody wants to make a buck. Please understand all these schools of the athletics department they fall under the university’s non-profit 501-3 status. They are non-profit, you have all these extra bowl games and in defense of those of you who have not been to a bowl game and you buy your tickets through Stub Hub the schools do not get any part of that money.

Schools are forced to buy a certain amount of tickets to feed a bowl game, a lot of times schools end up losing money because they want to be in the bowl game. Yes, that’s true they lose money in going to a bowl game, so they’re not all making money their losing money so why do we have so many bowl games if were actually losing money? I would gladly take that money and give it to the student athletes not to the football players and not just to the basketball players but all the student athletes.

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