Dispatch
Bob Hunter commentary: Despite Gee's concerns, college football was sold for profit long ago
Wednesday, May 7, 2008 3:35 AM
By
Bob Hunter
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
E. Gordon Gee's concerns about how a plus-one playoff proposal by Southeastern Conference commissioner Mike Slive could lead to the "professionalization of college football" have been weighing on me. Ever since I read the Ohio State president's quotes in Monday's
Dispatch about a plan to have the participants of the BCS championship game decided in two of the preceding bowl games, I have been able to think of nothing else.
"We will not cross that line and get onto the slippery slope -- the professionalization of college football and a furthering of the arms race," Gee said. "We simply have to say no. If we don't say no to this, the horse has left the barn totally."
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