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This is part and parcel of a system so bloated on greed and excess that it cannot even recognize its own double standards. We needed 40-plus bowl games because ESPN wanted the TV inventory and schools wanted the payouts and coaches wanted the bonuses. But we also needed a Playoff because it would create scads of new revenue on top of the bowls. And that new revenue is necessary to build every imaginable facility and employ small armies of staff while paying the head coach $90 million over 10 years—and at a salary like that, he’s got to get to work and can’t be bothered finishing a season in the Valero Alamo Bowl,.
This is part and parcel of a system so bloated on greed and excess that it cannot even recognize its own double standards. We needed 40-plus bowl games because ESPN wanted the TV inventory and schools wanted the payouts and coaches wanted the bonuses. But we also needed a Playoff because it would create scads of new revenue on top of the bowls. And that new revenue is necessary to build every imaginable facility and employ small armies of staff while paying the head coach $90 million over 10 years—and at a salary like that, he’s got to get to work and can’t be bothered finishing a season in the Valero Alamo Bowl,.
