The Big Ten Needs to Earn Respect, Not Demand It

Posted by Pete Dymeck on September-30-2009 Add Comments

The "College Football Bowl Subdivision", or FBS as we call it, is broken down into two highly indifferent pieces—"First Class" (Automatically Qualifying BCS Conferences) and "Coach" (Non-Automatically Qualifying BCS Conferences).

Some schools from the "Coach" conferences have legitimate rumblings about not earning an automatic berth from their conference into the Bowl Championship Series. When Boise State, Utah, BYU, TCU, and Houston shout from their mountaintops, I will listen. Those schools have earned that respect.

When schools such as Hawaii, Memphis, and Troy start shouting from atop their milk crate, I will disregard.

Respect comes on many levels and, even within the "First Class" conferences of college foot...

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