Deaf ears

It's not that the Mountain West Conference doesn't deserve a seat at the BCS table each year. It doesn't make a lot of sense for an undefeated team in a minor conference, such as the Mountain West, to be excluded.
It's just that the NCAA Division I presidents won't go for an eight-team playoff – or a four-team playoff or any sort of Division I playoff – any time soon.
The presidents are worried about the amount of class time that football players would miss by participating in another round of postseason games. It's baloney, of course. Look at the amount of time kids miss for the NCAA basketball tournaments each spring.
The bigger problem is how to tell the 35-odd towns that host college bowl games – big and small – that their games may go by the way side. Those small towns pull out everything they have to welcome the two teams to town, and it's a big pay day for the local merchants.
Besides, as far as the NCAA is concerned, the mere fact that everyone whines about a flawed system is good enough.
It's not right. But the NCAA won't repair it for a while (certainly not while the BCS games are on ESPN for the next four-year cycle), if ever.