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Bowling for paychecks.

Publication: The Sporting News
Publication Date: 02-FEB-04 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Bowling for paychecks.(College Football)

Article Excerpt
The old man has won more than 600 basketball games. His extensive and entertaining coaching career includes leading football schools Georgia and Florida State to the Final Four. So what, you ask, does a college basketball coach know about the state of college football?

Listen to Hugh Durham, a 66-year-old sage finishing his career at tiny Jacksonville University in something called the Atlantic Sun Conference, and understand the enormity of what he says--and why college football will never change.

"My last team at Georgia, we went to the NIT and we got fired," Durham says. "In college football, you take your team to the Peach Bowl, and you get a raise."

Now you know why college football coaches, while huddled in Orlando for their annual convention, pleaded their case for the sanctity of the bowl system and asserted that a national playoff wouldn't be good for the game.

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