Jan. 4, 2018, Orlando Sentinel Opinion Editorial By John Sowinski:

“As we savor UCF championship, vow to end

rigged path to playoffs”

From time to time, we like to bring you news and views from our team on what’s happening across the state. As many of you may know, Consensus Co-Founder John Sowinski is a former study body president for the University of Central Florida. In the Jan. 4 issue of the Orlando Sentinel, he offered perspective on UCF’s recent [national] championship and the rigged College Football Playoff system.

Here’s an excerpt of what he had to say:
“UCF’s historic football season has brought back memories of my time as a student at UCF. It was 1984. UCF had 15,000 students — mostly commuters. The campus was in the middle of nowhere, at the corner of a couple of two-lane roads — University Boulevard and Alafaya Trail. Six years earlier, our reclusive-yet-visionary university president, Trevor Colbourn, rebranded the school from Florida Technological University to the University of Central Florida and started a football program to help put the fledgling university on the map. The Division 2 football program had racked up an enormous debt, and its future was uncertain. Colbourn was committed to its survival and success, and risked his job to save the program.

As student body president, I had regular meetings with Colbourn. No matter what was on our agenda, he would often bring up a pending U.S. Supreme Court case, NCAA vs. Regents of the University of Oklahoma and The University of Georgia Athletic Association…” [Read More]