Bowl mania blights football

I love the solution...

Well, there's one way -- admittedly Utopian -- to end the bowl epidemic and stop the post-season commercial sleaze: Tie bowl invitations to the graduation rates of a college's football players. You know, those so-called student-athletes.

The Grad Barometer would play hob with big bowls if you accept numbers released by the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport at the University of Central Florida. Would you believe Tulane (80%) vs. Notre Dame (74%) for the national title? Major bowls might welcome scholars from Penn State, Virginia, Boston College, Wake Forest, Ole Miss and USC, all in top ten of graduating gridders.

Alas, the Fiesta Bowl would have to ban Ohio State (36%), and the Rose Bowl say goodbye to Oklahoma (26%).

I have always wondered why the NCAA doesn't punish teams with terrible graduation percentages. They punish them for all of these stupid things but forget the most important thing and that is getting these players quality educations. Until they get it right, I'll stuck with the Vanier Cup.