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A few years ago, Tulane president Scott Cowen marched up Capitol Hill, presented himself before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary and fired the first volley:
“I am here today representing a Presidential Coalition from more than 50 universities, which are not part of the BCS. These universities represent approximately half of all Division I-A schools.
“The BCS is an unnecessarily restrictive and exclusionary system that results in financial and competitive harm to the 54 Division I-A schools who are not part of the arrangement, even though all of these schools must meet the same membership requirements. The BCS is unjust and unjustifiable.”
It was 2003 when Cowen stuck that pitchfork in the college football landscape. The result? The number of universities he said he was standing up for has shrunk since then. They’ve given up. Capitulated. Or, maybe more pointedly, allowed themselves to be bought out.
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That’s why I couldn’t bring myself to laud TCU’s defeat New Years Day of Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl as a mighty blow for the little guys against The System, the BCS. It was another signature win for Gary Patterson, who quietly has been out-coaching many of his brethren for most of the past decade and has an eye for talent that is sharper than his competitors, too.
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