Georgia is this year's pissy "why not us" BCS complainer, and university president Michael Adams isn't going to take it anymore. No matter that Georgia didn't win its conference. Or even its division. The Dawgs have been done wrong, so it's time for a playoff proposal, one that Adams said was "
50-50" to pass when he introduced it.
His 50-50 proposal to set up a committee to talk about a playoff -- to
talk about a playoff, not actually
do anything -- then got
shot down by everybody:
"I don't think that there's a desire on the part of the board to do anything other than what the structure currently in place would yield," said Clemson President and board chairman James Barker.
At least four conferences already have weighed in against a playoff, starting with the long-opposing Big Ten and Pacific-10. Presidents and chancellors in the Southeastern convinced Florida's Bernie Machen to abort his own campaign for a playoff last June (Georgia also is in the SEC). Big 12 Commissioner Dan Beebe said his presidents weighed postseason modifications last spring, were united against a playoff and reaffirmed that stance in the wake of Adams' proposal.
At least four conferences, including the one in which Georgia currently resides, are stridently opposed to a playoff. So who's fault is this? The same entity that burned Atlanta to the ground during the civil war: The Big Ten.
