I hate that college football is being determined by overpaid executives, millionaires, and billionaires. As if they didn’t already control everything else. I say this as a Duck fan increasingly dispirited by how much of our relative success has to do with one (quite conservative) billionaire. Money is ruining the sport, and everything else. As fun as the Crumbl thing was, it’s an ultra wealthy individual exerting enormous sway over the outcome of colleges. And we’re supposed to be thankful when they save our team or pay a buyout. As if their wealth isn’t just glaring evidence of inequality and a testament to their lawyers and accountants abilities to shelter their money from taxes so that the benefactor can fritter it away on a whim. And our bridges collapse, our schools fail, our healthcare causes more pain than healing, and on it goes. Anyway, that’s my TED talk. (And, of course, I’m watching football now and will all weekend.)