You may remember the genius of Groucho Marx , the bespectacled Marx Brother with the grease-painted eyebrows and mustache. One of my all-time favorite films, Horse Feathers , featured Groucho, Harpo, and Chico on the football field (actually the Rose Bowl), representing their "school" in a particularly important game. But it's a particular quote of his that seems to summarize Division I football perfectly, at both the FCS and FBS levels. "I don't want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member." Division I has never truly been a large tent of equal schools. It was a division that counted as members Texas (whose athletic budget is as large as some small nations), Mississippi Valley State (whose entire athletics budget is about the size of what the University of Texas pays for socks for its athletes) and Marist (who doesn't even spend any money on athletics scholarships for its football athletes). But 2014 was a year of true soul-sea...
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