Drum roll, please.
The BCS conference commissioners have announced the name of the new postseason football playoffs. They traveled from all across the country to Pasadena to make this happen. They spent thousands of dollars with Premiere Sports Management in Overland Park to come up with this name, along with a committee of the commissioners. As tough jobs go, this wasn’t exactly cleaning up the kitchen!
Here’s what they came up with for a moniker: COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYOFF. Well, duh! That’s not a name, that’s what it is!
BCS executive director Bill Hancock said, “Nothing cute. Nothing fancy. We decided it would be best to call it what it is.” What it is, is disappointing! Disappointing in that the commissioners didn’t give us what almost all fans wanted, a true national playoff system. Instead we have this four-team playoff that will only lead to as much controversy as the old BCS system did. A true national champion? Not then and not now, under this format.
“Some to the fascination of a name, Surrender judgment hoodwinked.”
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Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott said, “I don’t think you can ever go too wrong calling something what it is.” Once again, what it is, is disappointing! What it is, is long overdue. What it is, is , once again, a band aide on a gaping wound. It is time for a complete playoff system for college football. A true national champion.
Give us that and we won’t care what you name it!

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Big changes are coming in the Jayhawk Conference of junior college basketball next year. It could have a huge impact on who we see playing on the court.
Scholarship rules next year will allow each team to have up to eight out-of-state players, meaning spots for Kansas players will possibly be reduced. That, of course, goes with the assumption that an out-of-state player will be more talented than a player from Kansas.
The question then is, “what is the purpose of sports at our community colleges?” Is it to provide an athletic team that represents the community or is it to put the most nationally competitive team on the floor? Can those two ideas coexist with one another? Should they? Tough questions for administrators and coaches in the Jayhawk Conference.

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CHALK TALK
Kudos to the BCCC women’s golf team, who this week won their sixth and final conference golf meet at StoneRidge, thus taking the regular season championship ... Come on, tell me you didn’t sit up all night studying the NFL draft! ... I see Kansas State is going to start selling beer at the six remaining baseball games at Tointon Family Stadium. Not sure how beer is a good idea at baseball games but a bad idea at football and basketball games. Then again, it gives the fans something to do while the pitcher is scratching himself and spitting between pitches! ... Wouldn’t it be an ironic twist of fate if K-State’s Angel Rodriguez transferred to Florida Gulf Coast and ended up with Joe Dooley, former top assistant for KU? ... YES! Those are our Royals sitting in first place in the AL Central!

Charles Tabler is a contributing writer from Larned.