Well, it is that time of year.  The news cycle starts to slow down on college athletics.  The two major sports – football and basketball – are both in the offseason.  As there is nothing concrete to talk about, the mind starts to wander.  As we’ve seen in the last couple of weeks, coaches just can’t keep their mouth shut.  Our own JB popped off on the future of point guard Brandon Triche.  But for the purpose of this discussion, I would like to point you over to the opinionated and apparently very bored octogenarian Joe Paterno.

As well chronicled by TNIAAM, PapaJoe would love to see the Big 10 swell to that elusive but oh so fruitful 12th game, which means playoffs and of course more dollars.  We already know that the powers that be would love nothing more than to control this whole BCS ponzi scheme for themselves, as evidenced by their now secret ballot.  I’m not going to revisit the arguments of stealing teams from other BCS programs (thank you ACC) or non BCS programs (thank you Big East).  Everyone has an opinion on that.  I’m talking about getting radical.

And of course we know that a certain president would love to turn the BCS into a bonafide playoff.

Obama: “I think any sensible person would say that, if you’ve got a bunch of teams who play throughout the season and many of them have one loss or two losses, there’s no clear, decisive winner, that we should be creating a playoff system. Eight teams, that would be three rounds to determine a national champion. It would — it would add three extra weeks to the season. You could trim back on the regular season. I don’t know any serious fan of college football who has disagreed with me on this. So I’m going to throw my weight around a little bit. I think it’s the right thing to do.”

So as I got to thinking, since it is the offseason and time for some crazy thoughts.  Why not blow up the BCS and while we are at it, the entire landscape of college football?

Here’s what I have in mind if President Obama made me the czar of college football:

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