College Football Writer Fired for Decided Lack of Anti-BCS Articles

Dave McDougle, a college football writer from CBS Sports, was fired earlier this week for a decided lack of anti-BCS articles written over the past few years. Despite what should be the basis of all his articles after week one of the BCS standings being released, the writer had only three stories talking about his disdain for the BCS system in the last half-decade. The head editor of CBSSports.com was interviewed about the decision to terminate the employee, and he expressed no regret over the firing. "Look, this is what people want to read about," said the editor. "They want to hear about how corrupt the bowl system is, and how they will never change because of the money. They want to read proposals for a college football playoff and see fake bracket upon fake bracket of what it would look like if a playoff happened today. "I mean, he wrote an article about Oregon last week! They aren't even in the top 10 or the SEC! That is completely unacceptable." McDougle defended his work, saying ... (link)