BCS: It's Time For Agressive Fan Lobbying

Year after year, we hear from teams who were jilted in the final BSC poll.  In their minds, less deserving teams went to the big game and the more deserving ones settled for lesser bowl games. 

And to make matters worse, their undefeated team could not even land a major BCS bowl game. Big money changes hands at those levels and too many schools do not even have a chance to participate the way the selection process works today.

We read random articles here on the Bleacher Report and many online forums. 

In 2003 USC ignored the BCS guidelines completely when they felt their cries fell on deaf ears.

In 2004 then Auburn head coach Tommy Tubberville protested verbally and in writing to anyone he thought could help, his pleas fell like a pebble in the ocean on a public who did not have a personal attachment to Auburn. 

We've heard from Georgia in 2007 when they felt they deserved to be in the national championship game instead of LSU.  The Georgia state representatives even introduced legislation at the state capital forcing the government to take a closer look at the BCS way of doing things.  Utah was involved in the same kind of action last year.

Even President Obama addressed the problem on the campaign trail last year.

Nothing has swayed the major universities from the current process.  Why should they change anything?  They make way too much money the way things are.  Why would they want to share that with other schools, no matter how deserving? 

Why would the selection committees of the many bowl games wish to change their bowl selection process for a playoff system for the sure thing they have today. 

What?  They should be expected to give away their Christmas pudding just because it would make things fair for other schools; not if they are not forced to. 

If we are ever going to shed this unfair, biased, and flawed selection process in favor of a playoff, then the banner must be taken up by the fans.  We are going to have to greatly increase our lobbying to the newspapers, to the sports magazines, to the major sports media outlets, and to our congressmen.

It's up to us and it's high time we did!  Don't you agree?