re: ESPN - Les Miles is the crusader for fair scheduling

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That's just silly.

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Agreed...and as long as college football is a bunch of semi-autonomous groups, a form of this will be in place in each conference. The offices of each conference have to go somewhere, and presumably that location will coincide with one of the member schools...which will more than likely mean there will be a disproportionate number of people working there from that state. Same goes for hiring officials from the area...you'll undoubtedly hire guys with either direct or indirect ties to member programs. There will ALWAYS be either the appearance of impropriety or downright fraud because of this.

Unfortunately, unless all of college sports would allow itself to be governed entirely from the outside (in the same way the NFL oversees divisions within the NFL) this will always be the case.

As much as I enjoy listening to people point at the problems, is anyone under the impression they will be able to SHAME BAMA fans/grads into doing the right thing...? If force isn't an option, then all this is meaningless.