Insiders use the college bowl system to loot American universities

[Harry]

The summer sun glints off the Caribbean as the Majesty of the Seas, a luxurious 12-deck ship with nine bars and a topside pool, docks at a private island called CocoCay in the Bahamas. Guests hug the railings and look out at a paradise stocked with palm trees, tanned masseuses, bars full of rum, and sumptuous white sand beaches.

The deck is crowded with college football bigwigs: Pete Garcia, Florida International University's executive director for sports; Florida State athletic director Randy Spetman; and Kirby Hocutt, then the University of Miami AD. Also present are more than three dozen colleagues from Missouri to Mississippi to Duke, all with spouses in tow.

Bill Hancock, executive director of the BCS, defends the college bowl system.

And this NCAA who's who looks happy not just because of the sun; they're all enjoying this luxury cruise for free.

More accurately, they're taking a vacation on the backs of the students and taxpayers who subsidize an outrageously crooked college football system that culminates in January with the Bowl Championship Series (BCS), including Miami's Orange Bowl on January 4.

http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2011-12-15/news/bcs-college-football-bowl-scam/

[UNTflyer]

A real black eye for the BCS?

[TIgreen01]

Goes beyond just the BCS. I never really understood why school presidents so vehemently defend the bowl system....there's a half-decent theory buried in that article for it, though.