Over the years it has become clear that the college bowl system, including the four-team playoff orchestrated by 13 powerful pooh-bahs, would cede control only at the point of a bayonet.
Thanks to Army, appropriately, the tipping point has arrived. The plight of the Black Knights, 9-2 and initially bowl-abandoned until getting a backdoor invitation to the Liberty Bowl, brought more attention to an archaic system built on backslaps and boys club behavior.
The cadets’ crisis was the final straw telling me that change is needed. After witnessing the injustices already served upon Cincinnati and Indiana, Army’s bowl brouhaha hastened the call for new marching orders aimed at bringing more equity to college football.