Bureaucracy and BCS

Elements of a bureaucracy include de-humanization of society; it is almost impossible to destroy; it is founded in legal-rational authority; becomes an iron cage; multiple, bad outcomes. These sound an awful lot like they describe a certain organization that every American lives and dies by. That organization, of course, is the Bowl Championship Series; or the BCS. The BCS de-humanizes society by shoving the teams’ statistics in a computer, which then pukes them back out in some kind of ranking that is supposed to order the teams from best to worst. What ever happened to “any given Saturday?” With all the money tied up between the individual bowls games, sponsors, and broadcasting, it is currently impossible to destroy. Yet, we are all trapped by the potential to see our team be selected, by a mathematical computer model, no less, for a higher spot in the weekly ranking. Pitiful.