BCS, bogus and all, doesn't add up, and it's too rich to extinguish

Over the holiday weekend, we finally got around to absorbing these two stories on the structure of the Bowl Championship Series, and why even Barack Obama's well-inspired intentions to have a championship tournament put into place sometime soon has so many potholes to avoid, even he may not be able to leverage his new-found power to do it.

We can only hope, though.

Read Bob Keisser's piece on the eight reasons why the BCS isn't going away (linked here)

Then read Nicholas Bakalar's piece in Sunday's New York Times about how money, no matter how you crunch it, is what's at the core of the BCS, and those who have it aren't willing to share (linked here). We appreciate him resurrecting a study done two years ago by UC Irvine professor of statistics Hal S. Stern (find him at this link), who called out anyone in his field participating in the BCS computer polls and advocated a boycott of such nonsense.