My title comes from Senator Amidala(wife of Darth Vader and mother to Luke and Leia Skywalker) after witnessing the dissolution of the Republic into the Galactic Empire. As I have watched college football crumble into the vile and base creature it is, I felt very close with Senator Amidala. College football used to be a grand shining knight who championed justice and amateur competition. Now it is a shadow of itself as it quickly walks to the prostitute of T.V. money. It's collar is up as it goes inside that wretched brothel so as to not be seen. The great has fallen. The evil seeds that were sown by the creation of the B.C.S. and the signing of contracts by conferences with T.V. channels have blossomed into enormous Rafflesia flowers.(these flowers are the biggest flowers in the world and give off a stench of rotting flesh. fitting I thought.) I feel much like King Tirian and his noble friend/unicorn Jewel, we have lived long enough to witness the corruption of what we have loved. If only I had died yesterday, I would have only known college football in a happier time. Now I said that for dramatic effect, I do not wish I would have died from what is happening to college football. Life will go on and be fantastic, I am just trying to show what is happening is as vile as Shift and Ginger bringing on the destruction of Narnia.
The blind lust of money is hitting home more for me than others because of the repercussions on my beloved Kansas Jayhawks. They are going to be a school without a conference. The evil B.C.S. will not let it have any type of bowl worth winning now. I know the limits of Kansas football, they are not Notre Dame. They do not that the history to buy them good bowl opportunity. Notre Dame was great but look at them now, they have no conference and now rely on ridiculous exemptions to get them top tier bowls and T.V. contracts that try to force people to care about them playing Duke in football. If they dance in front of you long enough you will start caring right? As much as the demise of KU football hurts, the real tragedy will be Kansas basketball. The Jayhawks have one of the most tradition rich, successful, loved, storied, great programs in the history of college SPORTS. Nobody wins conference titles like the Jayhawks. Now they may just wander the countryside of college basektball, looking for someone to play a non-conference game against them in February. I sigh...and wonder if this woe was brought upon Kansas by itself. Has the sin of firing Mangino caught up with them this quickly? Would the Solar System get away with kicking Jupiter out? I think not. University of Kansas, I ask you to put ash on your head, clothe yourself in sackcloth, and hire the biggest coach in all sports back. If you do this, the world of college sports will come back into balance. For now though, Anakin Skywalker has been grossly transformed into Darth Vader. The prophesy was misread, balance to the Force he did not bring. What or who will become Luke? Who will heal Vader back into Anakin?
Those of you who raise your eyebrow in boredom and skepticism at this post, beware. This killing of college sports is a mirror image of our country. Our nation is being bought and sold at the price of out freedom, and like socialistic health care not coming until 2014, the Big 12 will live on for a few more years in awkward feet shifting silence. The end is near and its spirit is gone but it has to go on for a few years until the money whores have everything is place to steal the teams for good.
P.S. I also would like to take this time to ask the Mountain West to accept KU and KSU into your family so they do not have to make a new conference called, "The Pitiable 2", because those commercials would be terribly short.
