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Thursday, March 26th, 2009Sen. Orin Hatch sets his sights on the very important task of . . . changing the BCS.
I wrote a piece on why Congress should butt out for ESPN a few months ago.
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But, but, but… People don’t like the BCS! Why shouldn’t our elected demigods step in and take over something that at least a vocal minority finds objectionable? Why do you hate the children, Radley?
This is why we need to go back to the system of having senators elected by state legislatures. These guys are in there for too long, and supported by a constituency that is too large to hold them accountable.
I’m not a huge fan of the BCS but this is the last bunch of morons I want fukin with it. The re-distribution of wealth crowd has discovered inequaties in college football and by-god, they’re gonna fix it.
I think I’ve reached the point where I’m completely jaded by anything these jackasses do.
Orin Hatch, Translated:
“My state’s team didn’t get to play, so I’ll rewrite the law.”
Since Congress has delegated most of its Constitutional powers and responsibilities to the President, they have plenty of free time to uncover and inject itself into those few remaining venues where government is not the dominant controlling entity.
If this was being done instead of rather than in addition to ruining the economy, I’d consider it a pretty good tradeoff.
Somewhere, someone will whore their vote to whoever abolishes the BCS.
Boyd,
Only in the year when there team was the one “screwed”, you know the team that either has a loss or plays a schedule so easy only 2 teams from 5 of the BCS conferences played an easier one. Most of the other people that bitch about the BCS are not really college football fans.
This is the only way to gaurentee that the BCS system gets worse.
I found this bit from Rep. Joe Barton to be most humorous,
In the House, Rep. Joe Barton of Texas, the top Republican on the Energy and Commerce Committee, has sponsored legislation that would prevent the NCAA from calling a football game a “national championship” unless the game culminates from a playoff system.
Wouldn’t that raise this question: Couldn’t then the BCS just change the name?
Perhaps channeling the Japanese. The BCS Super Wonderful Happy Time Football Game.
Or maybe perhaps Borat. The BCS For Make Benefit Glorious Football Game.
Just a thought.
Cheers.
They can do what they like with the BCS, but do not mess with the LFL!
http://www.lingeriebowl.com/
I fail to understand what binding law could be written to control how college football operates.
Would the law mandate what schools you play in your schedule? If every undefeated team gets a chance to play for the title, then every school will simply pad their schedule with lesser quality teams.
Not to mention that after any legislation these clowns come up with is passed, all that has to happen is the top football schools around the country drop out of the NCAA, create a new private organization (read ‘league’) called the National College Football Conference and invite a fixed number of Colleges to join.
They would wipe out the football programs in all the non-NCFC schools nationwide, and share all the revenues among member colleges.
Or does Hatch plan to send in the Nat Guard and force schools to participate in whatever program he dreams up?
You nailed it Dakota!
Radley your headline really sums it up. Thanks.
QFT.
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OTOH, the BCS can probably get out of this by sending Senator Hatch a couple of pairs of tickets to each of the games.
Actually, this is something I can get behind. Keep it up, Orrin.
As someone who has watched his alma mater get the shaft under BCS rules as well as other Pac-10 schools, Congress is the last “governing body” that should be getting involved. How about they get back to work on blindly passing insane stimulus packages and leave it up to the schools involved eh?