Orlando Sentinel
Posted: 02/28/2009 05:18:55 PM PST
Updated: 02/28/2009 07:18:16 PM PST



The quote was stunning in its candor. Here we had the president of the most recent Bowl Championship Series champion spelling it out for you.

The BCS isn't about national titles. It's about the richest schools hoarding the wealth.

No less an authority than Florida president Bernie Machen says so.

This caste system pre-dates BCS revenue sharing but has been magnified by its excess. To take liberty with Machen's point, Florida and Alabama get their millions and spend like CEOs shopping for jet planes. In doing so, dollars fall onto Mississippi State and Vanderbilt. Whatever is left drips onto Louisiana Tech and Florida International in the form of BCS welfare and game-guarantee paychecks.

Nowhere is the separation between the have and have-not in college football more evident than in coaches salaries. We've seen egos drive facilities upgrades and head coaches salaries. Now it is fueling bidding wars for assistant coaches. South Carolina this week approved $2 million for assistant salaries for 2009, including a $250,000-a-year salary for its offensive line coach. That's more than the base salaries for seven Division I-A head coaches. You probably can guess correctly that the head coaches are in the MAC and Sun Belt. When you get to the coordinator level in leagues like the SEC, you start passing head-coach salaries in the Mountain West, WAC and C-USA.

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thank you SO much for posting that Manzano, i've been preaching this since the BCS was established.