For the most part, it has succeeded, even without the Rose Bowl and the Pac-10 and Big Ten champs in the mix. By extending the postseason a few extra days and moving the Rose Bowl to a night game, ABC and the alliance have gone too far. Give us a title game on January 2, but stop with the manipulating. Play the rest on January 1, college football's glamour day. We live in a world of TV, and that includes college athletics.
Sports fans understand that.
The shoe companies are involved in an ever-escalating battle for control that has produced these summer coaches, some good, but many bad, who are now taking control of the young players. The shoe companies buying up college athletics has just compounded the problem because the college coaches hate the way recruiting works now but are on the shoe company payroll. There are some very good people involved in summer basketball. There are good college coaches and coaches that aren't so good. Good high-school coaches and some that aren't.