I expect the IRS to sooner or later to step in WRT treating big time athletic departments as tax exempt. And I'm not so sure that sooner will come before later.

When is the IRS going to drop a hammer on U of Tex athletic department whose athletic budget is 100's of millions of dollars.

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I don't get where CFB is headed at all. The talk of a playoff seems like that is where we're headed but it doesn't make sense.

1) a 4-tm playoff pretty much invalidates all the bowl games. Networks just lost 30 games and 100hrs of advertising revenue to pick up a national title game they already had and 2 top BCS bowls they already had. Where will all that extra money come from going from 30 games to 3? I don't see it working monetarily speaking until at least a 8-16tm playoff. In which case, it will be very difficult for ACC and the rest to be excluded.

2) If you get rid of bowls, the gap between post-season and no post-season teams will increase as the current # of practices will go up dramatically to account for the extra weeks. You will either have to give every school the same number of practices (something they should do already) or just accept the gulf of haves and have-nots will increase. I'd say the former is the obvious solution but based on expansion to date, conferences/university presidents are perfectly happy neutering programmes that might compete with theirs.

3) If schools get rid of the bowls and go to a playoff, it'll have to include all D1A schools in a reasonable manner (totally with ya, Old Line). I just can't see Congress not demanding this. Heck, they complained when Utah wasn't invited in. Rep/Sen tend to like having their state flagship universities included in the game. Take away their chance, and it wouldn't shock me to see certain funding pressures applied (IRS loopholes removed on certain "revenue", and more importantly critical university funding mechanisms like NIH, NSF, DoD, etc).