Greed

[GoZips]

Today's Leakin' Urinal has an article on how Can't State is planning to promote their low attendance football team to the students on campus. The goal being to increase student attendance to Can't State home games.

Akron and twelve other schools, including Cant State are endanger of losing their D1-A status in football for failing to meet a minimum attendance requirement of 15,000.

The major programs wallow in their 100,000+ average attendances (at ticket prices 3-4 times the cost of a MAC ducat). But, they want more. They want the future Jason Taylor, Randy Moss, Ben Rothelisberger, Brian Leftwich, Dwight Smith, Chad Pennington to be part of their football program.

Every school knocked back to D1-AA produces a two or three players that bloated giants covet. These kids are now up for grabs.

This player grab would not stop at eliminating all non-BCS schools from D1-A. It will not stop until even the perennial bottom feeders of their own conferences are beaten down as well. Thus yielding a top dog category of forty to fifty elites.

Once this monopoly is established the sky is the limit. All the top players, all the TV revenue, all the status, all the glory goes to the "elect".

Bring on the lions, the Christians are meek.

[zipsbandman]

What is up with this attendance threat? Things seemed quiet for a while, and I was not as concerned with the proposal. Maybe this is why Akron is stepping up its marketing campaign?

Just what we need!