In case you hadn't heard, those idiots who run the BCS have decided the way to fix things is to add another game to their rotation that will happen about a week after their four bowls. That game will rotate among the four hosts, meaning that once every four years a city will get to double dip with their regular bowl and the new, as yet unnamed game (which for our purposes we'll call the Avarice Bowl).

The best thing about the Avarice Bowl is that it will solve none of the problems with the BCS. While it's styled as a national championship game, it does not correct the problem that led to last year's split title. The Avarice Bowl will also never see a team from a non-BCS conference. They should still feel lucky that the BCS deigns to give them an opportunity to perhaps appear in one of their contests.

There was talk of more formula-tweaking to help avoid last year's situation. I assume this is based on all the success they've had with previous tweaking.

With the timing of the Avarice Bowl, we'll also now have a major college football season that stretches from mid-August to mid-January. But remember, we can't have a playoff because it would take the players away from school too much and last too long. Just ask those teams in the other three divisions who have a playoff system.

I don't suppose we needed more proof that the BCS is a sham or that the NCAA might as well sell out to the pros. But the Avarice Bowl is perhaps the most naked cash grab in college sports history. It also confirms P. T. Barnum's maxim about suckers being born every minute, because as much as people will complain about the Avarice Bowl, those same people will still watch it (myself included, unless I don't like the teams).

And that's the worst part of this. The BCS hierarchy knows it can get villified for essentially putting a new coat of paint on a lemon and still come out making money. I would say that they should leave academia for the corporate world, but they pretty much already have.