I read with interest the Associated Press report revealing that the NCAA Division I board of directors is willing to consider Georgia president Michael Adams’ proposal for an eight team major college football playoff.

I don’t believe it, but I read it with interest.

I think the esteemed group will “consider” the idea only in the sense that city council members would consider the request of a daffy citizen to build an elevator to Mars.

They say they will while dismissing it in their minds immediately.

Not that Adams is daffy. In fact, he is now my new hero among college presidents. While most of his peers have spent their entire careers dissing a Football Bowl Subdivision tourney, Adams was willing to lay out a plan.

But what makes me think Adams is getting nothing more than lip service is the fact that the board believes before any decision is made, Bowl Championship Series officials need to figure out “what’s best for the postseason.”

Talk about the fox guarding the hen house.

If the BCS knew what was best for big-time college football, we wouldn’t have had a two-loss team playing one that hadn’t competed in 54 days for the so-called national championship.

We wouldn’t have had one team jump from No. 7 to No. 2 in the final pre-bowl BCS standings, while No. 4 dropped to No. 5 for no apparent reason.

Nor would Oklahoma be able to get drilled in the Big 12 Championship Game, as it did a few years back, yet still play for all the marbles.

Need examples of how badly the BCS is broken? Just follow the debris back to most any season it has been in existence.

For reasons I’ll never fully understand, college presidents think you can’t have both a playoff system and a bowl system, although you most certainly can. And since big money is the major issue — whether postseason opponents admit it or not — how could a playoff not make the NCAA more money?

There are even some coaches who say they like the current system better, because at the end of the year you have 32 winners instead of just one.

Georgia coach Mark Richt, in fact, had this to say in December, 2006:

“… am I in favor of (a playoff)? No, I’ve always tried to protect what I think is the best regular season in the world.”

Now Richt is on board with his president, probably because of the Bulldogs’ No. 2 finish without a chance to play for the title.

Hey, it’s an election year — we’re all entitled to at least one flip-flop.

I’m just afraid not enough college presidents will flip to make Adams’ proposal a reality.

Translation? We’ll still be left with this BCS flop.

Scott Adamson is sports editor of the Independent-Mail. He can be reached at (864) 260-1237 or by e-mail at adamsonsl@IndependentMail.com.