Not trying to dodge, but frankly, I'm at the "Who cares?" stage. I'm pretty disgusted by the destruction of everything that was good about college football. If I want to watch pro football, the best pro football in the world is played on Sundays (primarily). I've become increasingly less emotionally invested in college football as the bowls were diminished and unrestricted player movement increased. And yes, I'll still watch sometimes . . . for now.
Perhaps it funds the non-revenue sports, but at what cost? If the UW wasn't chasing the brass ring, presumably someone else would. But if you could go back in time, would universities even choose to be in this unwieldy business of providing sports entertainment?
The biggest question for me was raised in the discussion about Big Sky teams going to the Mountain West. I seriously wonder why any university would choose to leave the relative comfort of FCS football for "the big time". It seems like a lot of misery to me.
