29 May
2009

The NCAA football coaches have made a decision about their situation vis-a-vis the BCS national championship game. To wit, they have decided that all the coaches polls at the end of the season will be secret again. They used to be secret and then they decided they wanted to be more open again. And now it will be secret again because the coaches dislike the bad publicity they got in the first few days after the poll was taken. Lots of coaches, however, came out against this decision, because they like the accountability it puts forward and that it keeps everyone honest as much as possible. In other words, not only will some invisible hand decide who plays in the championship, but no one can be held accountable. What about the bad publicity that the secrecy brings forward?