Fiesta Bowl to stay in BCS

Submitted by Mr Mackey on

It had been discussed that the Fiesta Bowl might lose it's BCS status after a scandal that "included apparently illegal campaign contributions from staff and lavish spending by the former CEO on parties and a night at a strip club" 

The Bowl has to pay $1 million in fines to a charity for Arizona youth and they fired the CEO and president John Junker. Great name.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=6527759 

 

Waters Demos

May 11th, 2011 at 8:46 PM ^

The smaller things are, the better.

Money flows like water.  The bigger things are, and the more money involved, the worse.

Unfortunately, pins don't go back into grenades.  My Rousseauian heart will always be stuck in lamentation. 

Waters Demos

May 11th, 2011 at 9:38 PM ^

If I'm really a man of probity, I should note that this is the language people use when they have nothing substantive to add, and have insecurity issues. 

justingoblue

May 11th, 2011 at 10:20 PM ^

Not knowing the answer makes me believe that all those rumors I've heard about what law school students do to blow off steam must be true.

Although in your case it could be that you steer clear of hard drugs and whatnot and get by with kitteh hugz from BlueDragon.

Either way, glad to see you're living it up. Cheers.

Waters Demos

May 11th, 2011 at 10:33 PM ^

To BD: You could be right - however, have you considered opening up the relationship?  We may have to ask JGB for his stats.

To JGB: (1) Is the opposite of "goodbye": "hello" or "badbye"?  (2) Let's forestall your search pending BD's aswer to my question.  You could be our Mike Modano. 

ChuckWood

May 11th, 2011 at 8:40 PM ^

This is good news.  The Fiesta bowl should not lose its BCS status.  If it did, it would be a pretty devastating month for Glendale, AZ.  They would lose their hockey team and their BCS bowl.

And I don't know why everyone is making a huge deal about a strip club being involved.  Attending a strip club is legal.  The fact that they used bowl money on it isn't.  I don't care if they spent the money at a church camp or a hooker convention, the fact is that they illegally used money.  The time and place has no relevance.  

johnvand

May 11th, 2011 at 9:01 PM ^

NCAA chickened out in a major way.  The bowls have way too much power.  Fining a bowl that makes tens of millions of dollars less than 10% of one year's pull is laughable.

NateVolk

May 11th, 2011 at 11:33 PM ^

Sorta like having Jeffery Dahmer lay down sentencing for Ted Bundy. The money is meager back payment for all the money these bowls claim to be giving to charity under the shady not for profit tax free status they enjoy.