{"id":4015,"date":"2011-05-15T20:58:07","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T02:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nsr-inc.com\/\/?p=4015"},"modified":"2011-05-15T20:58:07","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T02:58:07","slug":"twis-bcs-1m-pass-to-fiesta-bowl-raises-a-key-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/twis-bcs-1m-pass-to-fiesta-bowl-raises-a-key-question\/","title":{"rendered":"T*W*I*S: BCS $1M “Pass” to Fiesta Bowl Raises a Key Question"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>The behind-the-scenes antics of the Fiesta Bowl’s CEO John Junker and his cronies led to the Junker Man\u2019s firing and a fine of one million dollars on the Fiesta Bowl by the BCS.\u00a0 But, the Fiesta Bowl lives on in the BCS.\u00a0 So, the question begs to be answered, “Why?”\u00a0 Of course, it’s about money.\u00a0\u00a0That’s a given.\u00a0 Yet, there could be another far reaching reason the Fiesta Bowl got the ruler-slap-on-the-hand treatment instead of a short term suspension or an altogether expulsion from the BCS bosses which had the power to do either.\u00a0 How about this:\u00a0\u00a0is the BCS trying to protect their other bowls from scrutiny by glossing over the Fiesta problem with what might on the surface appear to be stern punishment?\u00a0 Hmmm.\u00a0 A million dollars to a bowl, that is a major bowl, is chump change when considering the money which goes through its hands during the lifetime of a TV contract. \u00a0You can\u00a0count on this — there are\u00a0investigative sports reporters digging around in garbage\u00a0cans as we speak trying to uncover the next big bowl bust.\u00a0 And with just over 30\u00a0bowls currently\u00a0in existence, what do you think are the chances that other\u00a0bowl\u00a0CEO’s like Sir Junker\u00a0have been taking a few trips, or throwing a few parties, or giving gifts to more than a few\u00a0well-connected folks who might potentially influence their schools’ teams landing in their televised games?\u00a0 Just\u00a0asking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The behind-the-scenes antics of the Fiesta Bowl’s CEO John Junker and his cronies led to the Junker Man\u2019s firing and a fine of one million dollars on the Fiesta Bowl by the BCS.\u00a0 But, the Fiesta Bowl lives on in the BCS.\u00a0 So, the question begs to be answered, “Why?”\u00a0 Of course, it’s about money.\u00a0\u00a0That’s … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[22,47,63],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4015"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}