The Bowl Championship Series is so troubled by the graft exposed in the just-released Fiesta Bowl corruption report that it appointed a special “task force.” Problem is, one of the members of the task force is an athletics director who accepted a free Caribbean cruise from the Orange Bowl just last summer.
But back to the corruption report from the Fiesta Bowl-- who by the way, just fired its longtime CEO John Lunker-- in part, because of the eye-popping way his bowl game was run – $1,200 strip-joint bills tend to generate a lot of negative press.
The corruption report itself revealed a bowl game involved in illegal political donations, massive kickbacks to college administrators and obscene financial abuse. In just one example, the Fiesta paid Junker’s membership at four separate country clubs in three states.
Isn't about time the NCAA shut down all these crooked, backwater bowl games and install an official playoff system like it has in all its other collegiate sports? For goodness sakes, certainly the NCAA has demonstrated it has the clout to do such a thing . . . so what is it waiting for?
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