The metaphor to other sports is not completely valid. If only two of the six division champions got a shot at the World Series and the rest were left out, the Red Sox damn well would be rooting for the Yankees if it meant a carry-over perception of strength for the AL East.
1. Buy Vizio TV, X360, Madden11 at Walmart for 500 bucks 2. Go crazy with Rookie difficulty settings, easiest possible, so defenders run away from the ball carrier instead of towards and can't tackle when they try. 3. Video highlights of said craziness and accompany with the word nigger. 4. ????? 5. Profit?
When we complain about RIAA, DMCA, overlitigation, DRM, etc, we usually say that the media companies need to come up with new business models instead of using The Man to prop up the existing models. I don't think we can complain when they actually take our advice.
Just for fun let's cancel the draft for a few years and let the teams just bid on the rookies like free agents. Then we can get a real idea of what they are actually worth to the teams.
What's worse than all these (highly unlikely) conspiracy theories is the fact that the committee couldn't even follow their own principles: "There shall not be more than two teams from a conference in one region unless a ninth team is selected from a conference". 3 of the 8 Big East teams are in the South