Here is a following story that cleared the Associated Press Wire. College Football fans take note.
By FREDERIC J. FROMMER Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen. Orrin Hatch is asking President Barack Obama to launch a Justice Department investigation into college football's Bowl Championship Series over antitrust laws. Hatch tells the president in a letter Wednesday that a "strong case" can be made that the BCS violates antitrust laws. The Associated Press obtained a copy of the letter. Under the BCS system, some conferences get automatic bids to participate in top-tier bowls while others don't, and the automatic bid conferences also get far more of the revenue. Hatch represents Utah, and he says the current system unfairly discriminates against some conferences. The BCS has said it simply recognizes the teams people want to watch. Neither the White House nor the Justice Department has an immediate comment.
Now here is the deal. The Government has done quite well in messing things up in a very short period of time without delving in to the fairness of the Bowl Championship Series and how it works. Is it fair? Probably Not! Is it a national nightmare? Probably Not! Is there too much money at stake to tweek it? Probably so! Can the Government make a bigger mess of it than it already is! You Bet it can! The current BCS system is like a rock chip in your windshield. Take it to the Federal Goverment garage to fix it and you'll have one long crack from end to end.
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Why doesnt it suprise me that a Senator from Utah would be wanting to investigate the BCS? Lets just have 50 more bowl games so all teams can participate, I'm sure that there is several millions available in todays economy to support this. Who knows we could finally have a Tupperware "Bowl". Or a Dow Chemical "Tidy Bowl". Or a Campbell's soup "bowl". The list of new bowl names would be endless. As you mentioned Rod, our elected officials have no business sticking their nose in things like this but that hasnt stopped them before has it. Like the steriod hearings, that sure fixed things didnt it? But hey. they can sit back at their cocktail parties after the daily congressional hearings end and say "I gotta go, I am scheduled to be on ESPN tonight". I am sure that impresses someone and keeps the media from asking real questions about issues that they were sent to Washington to deal with. I'm sure that Senator Hatch's constituents will not be as concerned about health care if the Utes get a BCS game.
ReplyDeleteMy point of view on this can be summed up with one word.....WHATEVER!! But if you're like me, and you're tired of watching 83 bowl games a year with half the teams playing in them no better than a .500 team, and you would MUCH rather see a playoff system adopted, then I say, "You go, Sen. Hatch!" Besides, if there's one thing that can bring us all together in perfect harmony, it's sports. Well, that is until the riots start breaking out at soccer stadiums, or a bad umpiring call costs the Yankees the World Series (yeah, right!).
ReplyDeleteI mean seriously though, a 6-6 record makes you bowl eligible, so that means that some of these bowls end up featuring teams that are actually going to finish with a losing record! How in the world does that make for good television during "the most wonderful week of the year"? You want the BCS? Fine. Let's use the BCS rankings to determine the top 32 eligible teams and bracket them out, give or take a few, if the top so many deserve a bye. What? Too many games? Well, isn't that what everyone wants anyway? Besides, the major bowls are never played until the regular season is five weeks or more gone by anyway. What to do with the current BCS bowl games? Play the quarterfinal, semifinal, and championship rounds of the tournament playoff at those sites. What a great idea! I know....I ain't as dumb as I sound on the radio.