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Hello and welcome to Breakin' The Plane. I've sat around these many months and had more time than I really wanted to pour over sports info, stats, standings, and all that good stuff. So now I'm transforming my random insights that usually end up with me calling buddies for hours on end in Colorado or just go unheard into this.

So what's on tap? Just a BCS slam session for the inaugural address.....

Ah, The B.S. Sorry B-C-S. Can we suggest to Congress that before the bill to ban the BCS from using the name "National Championship" unless its the direct result of a playoff that the BCS and all big conference commissioners have to go on primetime national TV to apologize for making us all rip our eyebrows off every college football postseason for the last 11 years? I don't think its too much to ask. By the way, that ripping of eyebrows? Take that wound, put salt and battery acid in it, then imagine peeling your face off like fruit by the foot and that's what most of Colorado football fans feel like in keeping head coach Dan Hawkins. 16-33 apparently works for CU administrators and the heads that be. Disgusting. Wasn't this program competing for a national championship... THIS DECADE?? Now they are more of an afterthought than Baylor in the Big XII. Lots more on this later. Back to the BCS(uck).

Major props to Congress for enacting legislation to get the ball rolling on killing this contrived post-season. And yes, its not Afghanistan or the economy but it is an issue that drives hundreds of millions of dollars in this country when you add up payouts, game revenues, advertising and TV rights. To relegate this to the big schools is unfair, is as Orrin Hatch says a violation of anti-trust laws (take this from a business school grad), and a disgrace. The only sport in the world that conducts its postseason in a sanitized one MUST play two scenario. Why? I'd point to George Mason in basketball, the NY Giants in 2008, and the biggest sporting event on Earth , the World Cup, to illustrate why this one v. two concept is idiotic. You're telling me George Mason's run wasn't the best part of the NCAA's in the last 15 years? That David Tyree's catch shouldnt have ever happened because the Giants werent the number one seed in the NFC? (By the way, the NFL has a pretty damn important regular season but seems to understand the playoff system) And the World Cup? Imagine the international riots and warfare if FIFA just said, 'Thanks everyone for trying to qualify but its gonna be Brazil v. Spain in the finals.'

Point is this system is flawed. Even its commissioner cant come up with a solid argument for why its the ONLY viable option. Its a shame. People who defend it were like the people during the steroids era just laughing and cheering hysterically as a 350 pound all muscle Barry Bonds hits 89 home runs: they have no concept. Keep the minor bowls. I dont care who wins or even plays in the Emerald, Sun, Gator, or Lil Caesar's games. Let NC State and Southern Mississippi duke it out for some glory. As for the big boys, keep the major bowls and use them in a PLAYOFF format. I guarantee you an Orange Bowl national semifinal between Boise St. and Florida gets a hell of a lot more attention than the Iowa/ Georgia Tech contest where absolutely NOTHING is on the line!