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Today I solve all of college football's problem

The college football season is underway and already one pretender has bitten the dust. The purple clad Horned Frogs of TCU were edged out by the Baylor Bears in a high scoring affair. The sports ticker hailed it as an upset.... but it's not. This is not the TCU of old, Andy Dalton will be sorely missed. Over the course of this upcoming season it will become apparent just how hard it is for schools like TCU to maintain the status quo. Two or three lackluster seasons and schools like TCU crash back down to earth. It's unavoidable, just look at Florida St., Miami, Notre Dame etc. 

One school that seems to defy the odds and stay at the top is Boise St. and once more they appear to be for real after rolling past Georgia at the Georgia Dome. 

The Big 12 seems to be on its deathbed, now Oklahoma is ready to bolt and Ok St. may be right behind them. Every scenario that was talked about last summer is now coming to fold.  How will this shake out? While the Big 12 could survive the departure of Texas A&M, if Oklahoma and Ok St. leave it's all over. If the Oklahoma schools stay, you bring in Tulsa, SMU and Houston. When it's all said and done the Sooners & Longhorns will still battle it out for the conference title in most sports. I can't see Texas, Texas Tech, Oklahoma and Oklahoma St. in the Pac 12 even though that's now very likely to happen. What about the schools left out?  Baylor (MWC or Conf. USA) Kansas St. (MWC or Conf. USA) Iowa St. (MWC or Conf. USA) Kansas (would join the Big East) Missou (Big 10, SEC or Big East if all else fails)

 Boy! what the hell is wrong with you?

I still don't understand why Terrelle Pryor is serving a suspension in the NFL for NCAA violations. Is the NFL (of all people) appeasing the NCAA by doing this? I say fuck the NCAA, it's time to take that toothless tiger down. Fuck all you naysayers and traditionalists, this is where college football is headed anyhow. The time to yank the cash cow from those undeserving bastards is now. 

Dump the NCAA by transforming the BCS into a pro-league. Pay the players a salary based on a sliding scale. A starting Qb. or any player designated as a "Star" or "Franchise" would get more money. All other starters would earn a set amount, reserves would get less with adjustments if and when they become starters. If an opening day starter loses his job due to injury or demotion he still gets paid the same. Kickers would make less than anyone and walk-ons would become free agents.

The bowl games as we know them have to go, they must be incorporated into a playoff system. Let's say we have a 16 team playoff, that comes out to 15 games, so 15 established bowls will get post-season games. 16 teams, 8 games over two days for the first round, 4 over two days for the second round, the semi-finals can be held on one day and then the national championship game. 4 weeks of college playoff action and it will all be over before the NFL post season starts (by eliminating the long lay-offs between the regular season and the bowls) The title game will rotate between the same bowls and cities that are in place now, Rose, Fiesta, Sugar, Orange. 

Naturally only  the upper echelon would be able to meet these salary demands. Those teams able to pay their players would form the top tier or Div. 1. Schools unable to meet D-1 salary demands would compete as Div. 2 and pay their players less. Those schools with no hope in hell of paying anyone would stick with the NCAA and play "amateur football"  We're talking two divisions, 64 schools.  It would weed out the programs that lack financial backing to be competitive. While ridding college football of all pretenses about being an amateur sport. Like any pro franchise if properly managed it would make money for the schools & players.  

Why Yes! I am a Trojans fan, how did you know?