Who’s actually smiling at all the potential rejiggering of college football, more realignment, power grabs we’re hearing about?

I’ll tell ya.

The not so subtly named movie character Gordon Gekko. (Oliver Stone was never very finespun, when a thick needle and ten pound hammer would work.)

Recall Gekko was the financially avaricious dude with the motto, “Greed is good.”

So, yeah, there’s the Big Two, need I say their names? OK, SEC and Big Eighteen, who are apparently meeting to set a course where they can totally dominate the sport in the future. As if they don”t already.

Scheduling. Other stuff.

Including apparently their contractual ability to ensure they each get a minimum of four teams into the CFP under the next ideation of the post season. Whether they have that many worthy schools or not.

Has this sport’s superstructure gotten out of balance or what?

Truth: Those two conferences could pull it off.

Unlike the cockamamie proposal presented by some confederation called College Sports Tomorrow. Whose business leaders, entrepreneurs, interlopers and a few real college people could care less about anything other than pigskin. By their own admission.

Their initial suggestion is the top 72 powers broken up into 12 six team geographically  sensible divisions. The Power 12. The other CFP schools would be in Group 8. With a chance for prmotion upwards.

Though there would be no relegation for the big boys.

It would be named the College Student Football League.

Not a joke.

How could they not include the word Athlete after Student? Have they never heard the name Mark Emmert? Come on guys, get with the plan.

Among the guys pushing this idea is one Jimmy Haslam. He’s the owner of the Cleveland Browns.

You know, the astute businessman who signed over-the-hill, serially full body massage loving QB Deshaun Watson, who was suspended by the league for his private life peccadilloes. To a $230 million guaranteed contract. With a $44,000,000 signing bonus.

Seems like the kind of business guy Greg Sankey would want to listen to, right?

All of which is to ask, what is College Sports Tomorrow thinking?

Unless backed by Saudi Arabia’s Sheik Yerbouti, who’s promised billions to underwrite, CST has no shot at being taken seriously.

Which is not to mention that as best I can tell, none of the following players are involved in that endeavor. SEC. Big Eighteen. ESPN. Fox. Etc. Their absence would seem like a dealbreaker from kickoff.

Like Gekko ended up, CST shall be but an anecdotal afterthought sooner rather than later.

Unless they do have the handle to that oil moolah spigot.

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 Oldham County HS 26, Atherton HS Rebels 19.

Bummer.

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On a personal note . . . and you thought you’d get out of here without me venting on my conundrum?

Silly silly you.

As a personal mandate, I watch the teams in which I am emotionally invested in real time. No tape delay to avoid commercials. No taping and watching the next morning. It’s how I roll. Though of course I do tape on occasion to rewatch.

So it is with all the U of L Cardinal games. And those of the other sporting loves of my life, the Detroit Lions and Detroit Tigers.

The latter of which, if you haven’t noticed, are continuing their absurdly improbable late season run into the AL Division Round. Against the Cleveland Guardians, after sweeping the Astros.

First pitch Saturday afternoon a few minutes after 1:00 pm.

Which will be about 2/3ds of the way through the 2d Q of Louisville vs. Southern Methodist.

This is not an optimal scenario. Really? Yes really.

Not only does it present problems for my watching in real time requirement, I’m not real good at multi-tasking.

I am seriously distraught at this development.

Buuuuuuuuuuuut . . . I shall find away.

Take the rag away from your face, now’s not the time for your tears.

This is a First World Problem, for which I feel blessed to have to deal with.

— c d kaplan