Shurtleff has talks about a BCS inquiry
On Tuesday, Shurtleff met with attorneys and investigators for more than two hours to discuss whether to pursue an antitrust action against the BCS.
"They agreed that they would move forward, but they need to talk to more people and gather more information," attorney general's spokesman Paul Murphy told the Deseret News after the meeting had ended.
Murphy said the Utah Attorney General's Office has not launched a formal investigation.
"They also did not want to discuss what they will do next or what the strategy will be," he said of the attorney general and his legal team.
The Deseret News first reported on Shurtleff's decision to pursue an antitrust probe of the BCS after he returned from New Orleans, where he watched the undefeated University of Utah football team take down Alabama in the Sugar Bowl.
"This game proved that it's an unfair system," he said at the time.
Utah was not declared a national champion, nor did it rank No. 1 in The Associated Press' final poll.
BCS officials have defended themselves, saying they are within the law and that the system they have for postseason football is one agreed upon by all 11 conferences.
E-mail: bwinslow@desnews.com
Recent comments
Alabama and Florida are not the cream of the conference, any team can...
SEC #1 | Jan. 16, 2009 at 7:19 a.m.
"This is a MWC problem to fix, they need to improve there conference...
SEC #1 | Jan. 15, 2009 at 12:32 p.m.
By added miami and boston college the ACC did nothing to improve...
SEC #! | Jan. 15, 2009 at 8:26 a.m.
- Oil falls below $79 7:53 a.m.
- Stocks open lower 7:53 a.m.
- Iranian Consulate fatally shot 7:49 a.m.
- AP poll: Family dinner survives 7:47 a.m.
- Palestinian election may be called off 7:45 a.m.
- Balloon boy parents to plead guilty 7:44 a.m.
- Intel to pay AMD $1.25B settlement 7:42 a.m.
- Jobless claims fall to 502K 7:40 a.m.
- Obama to want revised war options 7:39 a.m.
- Will state consider gay rights law? 7:11 a.m.
- SLC council OKs gay rights policies
- Alta's Ohai is Ms. Soccer 2009
- Prep football: Felt's Facts Week
- BYU football recruit turning heads
- 'Love story' of crash victim ends
- Crash kills Utah County man
- Utah Jazz have a problem at point
- Will state consider gay rights law?
- 12 Utes return to Texas
- Cougars practice with urgency
- House passes health care bill
288 - SLC council OKs gay rights policies
253 - TCU showdown has big implications
195 - Senators want food tax restored
157 - Cougars crush hapless Cowboys
155 - Utah Jazz fall apart against Kings
131 - TCU 4th in AP poll; U. 16th, Y. 22nd
119 - S.L. vote pending on gay protections
109 - Letters: Strange breed in Utah
101 - Pratt pleads not guilty to sex charges
101
This week, I'm compiling my annual list of restaurants serving...
is on kjzz. 6 30 pm.
In AZ if you retire then go back to work you stop receiving your pension....
Well expect to see a large boom in LDS membership soon. The church has had...
And thus we see why lawyers are held in such disdain by honest Americans...
They should at the very least pay the costs of the police and other public...
Scientific evidence from whom exactly? Political or religious "scientists"?...
You are half right. In 1998 we scored two touchdowns no trick plays. In the...
I have been as frustrated with some of JT's ill-advised shots in the past as...
This is shocking! Tell me it is not true.
The argument that gays will sue to get married in the temple is almost as...

