Game of Thrones characters as College Football programs and figures

Cersei Lannister

There’s not a more ruthless character on the show than Cersei. She’s lied, cheated, stolen, and murdered for the throne. She doesn’t care who she has to hurt or step over to get what she wants.

The death of her children undoubtedly impacted her vision for the future. She now has no interest in building a long-running Lannister dynasty; she simply wants to rule for as long as she is living. Absolute power corrupts absolutely, and a taste of the throne left her wanting more.

Cersei never stopped referring to herself as the Queen, even after the death of her husband and the ascent of her two sons to the throne. In a merciless takeover, the title of Queen has once again formally been bestowed upon her, even if she has no real claim to it.

She’ll do whatever it takes to win, with no moral compass guiding her along the journey.

That’s similar, on a smaller scale, to Liberty University’s recent decisions to improve their standing in college football. Money and greed has vastly outweighed morality and creed for Liberty in its transition from FCS to FBS.

With one goal in mind, Liberty has hired a pair of figures with significant moral shortcomings. Athletic Director Ian McCaw was hired by the school in November of 2016, just six-months after resigning in shame amid the rampant sexual-assault scandal that rocked Baylor.

McCaw’s first football hire following the retirement of Turner Gill was Hugh Freeze, the disgraced former Ole Miss head coach who committed a myriad of NCAA violations in Oxford and was let go for soliciting prostitutes on a school-issued cell phone.

Liberty isn’t going to win a national championship, the equivalent of sitting on the throne in King’s Landing, but their win-at-all costs attitude and moral depravity make them a perfect Cersei clone.