College Sports

Time for a little griping. I know I am a few months late on this one, but this is a fairly new blog, so I am giving myself a freebie to go backwards in time a bit.

I don’t know why this is bothering me today, in the middle of spring, but exactly what was gained when the NCAA changed Division IA and IAA to Bowl Subdivision (FBS) and Championship Subdivision (FCS), respectively.

The reason given is that the new titles more accurately reflect what the divisions stand for. Obviously, the FBS denotes that the division plays bowl games instead of a championship bracket that determines a REAL national champion (thanks, BCS). And DI-AA (oops, I mean FCS) denotes the division that actually man’s up and plays a real championship game.

But pretty much everyone who pays any attention to college football knew what the divisions stood for, and how post-season was played out. And now, when the talking heads on ESPN get going on a story, and try to spit out that new mouthful, it takes me a minute to figure it out… kind of goes against the old KISS theory (keep it simple, stupid).

Oh, here’s another light bulb moment… Division I-AAA has been discontinued. Betcha didn’t even know there was a DI-AAA in football, right? That’s because it was a division created for the schools that don’t play football. That’s right… a football division for schools that don’t play football.

Hmmm…

All this got me to thinking, what will the powers that be rename next?

The Southeastern Conference will become “The Schools located in the southern portion of the United States of America that have banded together in the effort to dominate the athletic climate in the name of education.”

The Big Ten (11) will become “The Schools of the Great Lake States that excel at numerous sports, but are obviously challenged at counting their own members.

The PAC 10 will become “Westernmost schools within the contiguous United States that decry an East Coast bias”

I could go on and on, but you get the point.

LT

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