On page 3, right above the "Determining A True Champion" header, the article reads:
"Delany, the Big Ten commissioner, declined to be interviewed for this story, but recently told Sports Illustrated his conference's original decision to join the BCS "was not considered the first step toward a playoff, but the last step.""
What does that quote mean? It's got a very curmudgeon-ey tone to it, but when he said "the last step" was he intending to say "the last step before a playoff would come to exist" or "the last step, and by that I mean the definitive end to any discussion of a playoff ever existing in college football, even though my nearly indecipherable quote in no way makes that statement"?
:wow: