Kuunari

I don’t read a lot of mass-market non-fiction.  I could never justify the price of buying a hardcover book that I’d read in a couple of days that oftentimes is just an author’s opinion masquerading as fact.  Recently, however, I discovered that my local library is effectively a netflix for books with their website.  Plus, you can renew three times before you have to bring it in, which really helps someone like me, who likes to have a stack of books to choose from when reading.

So that is just a roundabout way of saying that I recently read <a href=”http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1592405703?ie=UTF8&tag=nortofnowh-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1592405703″>Death to the BCS: The Definitive Case Against the Bowl Championship Series</a><img src=”http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=nortofnowh-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1592405703&#8243; width=”1″ height=”1″ border=”0″ alt=”” style=”border:none !important; margin:0px !important;” /> by Dan Wetzel, Josh Peter and Jeff Passan.  And what better time to talk about the BCS than during bowl season?  While not a heavyweight book by any means and they do spend a lot of time finding new ways to say the statement “the bcs is terrible”, they base their statements on fact.

You can tell that these three gentlemen are passionate about their case and have done a lot of research to show that all the justifications given for the BCS are just a bunch of smoke and mirrors to keep the current power structure.  They show that it’s clearly not about the money, because a D-1 playoff would be a huge cash cow for the colleges and the conferences as a whole.  Instead, it’s only about insuring that the Big Six, and increasingly the SEC, Big 12 and the Big Ten as the only leagues that have a hope of winning the National Championship. I mean really, TCU and Boise State go undefeated multiple times, and have never had a real chance to play in the BCS Championship game.

I’d recommend this book for anyone with more than a passing interest in Football and the College game.  It is also a great case study of why people in power will prevent change even when confronted with mounting support and reasons for it.

3 out of 5 stars..:***