Should We Simply Accept the "Status Quo" in Sport?

As I was watching Hearts on the wrong end of a 5-0 home drubbing by English counterparts Tottenham in their Europa League football tie, I heard a rather disturbing fact about Scottish football muttered by the TV commentator. 

Apparently there hasn't been a winner of the Scottish League title other than the Glaswegian giants of Celtic and Rangers since the 1984/85 season.  Who were the champions that season?  As it so happens it was an Aberdeen side managed by none other than Sir Alex Ferguson.  In fact during his tenure as Aberdeen manager, he guided his side to three championship titles and a European Cup Winners Cup.  All those years on, you can certainly see now why Manchester United employed his services.

In all seriousness though,  has no one involved in Scottish football, be it the teams, business tycoons or administrators, felt the need to change the "status quo"of the past 25 odd years of Celtic and Rangers sharing the titles, for the benefit of Scottish League and Scottish football as a whole?

It is almost like we expect Celtic or Rangers to win the Scottish Premiership Title, no questions asked at all.  The betting establishments certainly do this season, with Celtic 4/7 and Rangers 11/8 to win the title this season.  The next best odds for any team you ask.  It is Hearts at 66/1.  Says it all really.

All evidence points to a "non-competitive" league and it does seem to be proving to the detriment of Scottish football and its status in European football.  Exhibit A.: Rangers losing to the Swedish team Malmo in the Champions League qualifier.  Exhibit B: Heart's humiliating home defeat to Tottenham in the Europa League yesterday.  Only Celtic seem to have faired slightly better in not conceeding a goal to Sion in the Europa League.

It is of course abudantly clear the Scottish League cannot compete with the leagues of other nations in Europe, in terms of competiveness and finance.  The English Premier League and Spanish La Liga come to mind.  At the same time, the Scottish League cannot simply be a league of mediocraty where you can confidently predict the winner before the season has even started.  The "status quo" tag has to be challenged.  If it doesn't a league continues to be a two horse race, you can't help feeling Scottish football will sink without a trace in the realm of Europe.