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from www.bleacherreport.com – It’s no secret that the people who run the bowl games and those that perpetrate the system that is the Bowl Championship Series aren’t the most upstanding people in the history of college athletics.

Today, a report from Katie Thomas of the New York Times revealed that officials with the Fiesta Bowl spent money at the bowl’s expense on things that aren’t exactly what you’d consider necessary to run a football game.

“Top executives at the Fiesta Bowl, the host of one of the nation’s pre-eminent college football games, funneled campaign contributions to local politicians, flew other Arizona elected officials around the country at the bowl’s expense, racked up a $1,200 bill at a strip club, and even spent $30,000 on a birthday party for the chief executive, according to an investigative report commissioned by the bowl’s board of directors,” Thomas writes.

You know, when I think of college football, I think of iconic rivalries, famous stadiums, electric atmospheres and of course, strip clubs. More importantly, how do you rack up such a high tab at a strip club? The whole thing is disgusting, including the lavish birthday party for the chief executive. These are the people who are supposed to be in charge of giving us, the college football fans, the best possible conclusion to the regular season, and these are the same people who are fighting to keep a playoff out of the realm of the possibility.

At some point, we have to start asking if we really want these people running bowl games and if there should be a stronger push for a college football playoff. The sad thing is, the allegations only get worse from here.

“The most serious revelations involve nearly a dozen employees who told investigators that the chief executive and others working for the bowl encouraged them to make political contributions, then reimbursed them with phony bonus payments,” Thomas writes. “Some said they then were pressured to lie about the practice.”

John Junker, the chief executive, was promptly fired and the Fiesta Bowl promised reforms as two more people within the bowl game, Jay Fields, the vice president for marketing and Natalie Wisneski, the chief operating officer both resigned from their posts according to Thomas’ article.

Let’s call this what it is — lip service. This is nothing more than actions to get people off of the bowl game’s back, when in reality, this type of stuff happens all of the time when it comes to bowl games. “Death to the BCS”, a great book by Dan Wetzel, Josh Peter and Jeff Passan, exposes all of this stuff and examines why we don’t have a playoff and how these people stay in power.

This corruption should surprise no one, but it doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t be sickened and disgusted that this goes on and taints the great sport of college football.