Why I'm full of beans

Dallas Morning News columnist Kevin Sherrington replied to my musings on why there won't be a BCS playoff in our lifetime:

"Here's what you don't get: The money that schools get for appearing in the post-season is partially shared with the conferences they come from. You say the WAC wouldn't vote for it because Hawaii's good? Hawaii is making them money. That's exactly why they would vote for it. That's like saying Rice and TCU shouldn't have wanted to be members of the SWC, because they regularly got their heads handed to them. Ask them if they'd like to be back in that league. They made a lot of money off those schools, and that's why the big public schools wanted them out. They weren't carrying their load.

"As for Leach's idea, how are you going to get those fans to travel to that many games? This isn't basketball, where who cares how many fans show up. Proposing 16 teams, as I did, is probably too much, for that matter."

Good points, all. But until someone explains to me how the SMUs of the college football world will make more money from a BCS playoff than they would being allowed to schedule more football games for themselves, I'm sticking to my original argument that the majority of schools will never OK a playoff.