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ACC commish says BCS complies with law

It's quite laughable how these BCS supporters keep trying to excuse the worst model for determining a champion in the history of sports. Everyone knows it's an absolute joke, so just come out and say the only reason you won't change is because it's lining your pockets with cash. We all know the truth.

The BcS is legal and smoking is good for you. Next they'll be telling us that the winner of the Oklahoma/Florida is the legitimate national champion.

"The BCS provided a platform for Utah to show the nation what a terrific football they had this year." Swofford said. "Preceding the BCS, I don't know if that platform would have been there."

In other words, "Utah (and every other non-BCS school) you better be happy with the little piece of the pie we are so graciously, allowing you to taste." (All the while said while basking in the glow of the multi-million dollar pay-out each and every year to nearly every BCS school whether appearing in a bowl game or not.)

Gee thank you so very, very much BCS. We'll go back in our room now and be good little kids.

Swofford says "we are getting all of the BIG football MONEY with the current scam we have set up and we won't be changing it any time soon unless we are legally forced to but we checked into that as well".

I am not sure why anyone talks/ARGUES about fairness or competition or anything else in an effort to get thing changed. There is nothing besides MONEY that controls the BCS.

MONEY! MONEY! MONEY! MONEY!

They get it all--why would they want a system that causes them to lose money that they have already schemed to collect?

The answer is to build a competing system that draws money away by diluting their product. Then the two sides would have to come together to compromise.

So an ACC conference with no-one in the top 10 right now, gets how much money to go to a big game that they don't even get close to deserving. I wonder how this fat cat Swofford would feel if the BCS booted the ACC for under performance and put the MWC in place of the ACC because the MWC is a better conference? How would all the Automatic bid conferences feel about a performance based system each year that awards the top conferences- that year- automatic bids and not under-achieving "has been" conferences?

How many top 25 ACC teams are there this year as opposed to top 25 MWC and WAC?

Now what seems fair.

Lame, Unfair system based on Money and greed...

plus one wouldn't work in this case either who would go the winner of the national championship and who else Texas, USC, or Utah.They have to go 12 deep atleast

You may want to check your final score on the Sugar Bowl. I remember it being 31-17 rather than your stated 28-17...It wasn't that long ago.

aaa ... um ... the score was 31-17 ...
... glad to see the AP knows it's facts ?!

The BCS needs to make the Cotton Bowl a BCS game and give the MWC and the WAC champions automatic berths. They have proven that they deserve a shot at the championship game. The winner of the ACC of Big East couldnt beat the second or third place team in the WAC of MWC. cinccinati had to come back in the forth quarter to beat Hawaii, a team that got dominated by Utah State. The BCS needs to get their heads out of whatever they are in and stop overlooking mid-majors.

a national championship that is and utah will never have one so utah fans please quit crying its getting old you will always be little brother with no national championship

Even if he is correct and the BCS does comply with the law there is no doubt that the system as it currently exists is not ethical. It represents the same good old boy type arrangements that have plagued this country for years.

So what Swofford is telling us all is be happy that we even invite you to the party??? What an arrogant SOB. And the score was 31-17 by the way.

It still isn't good enough! Go get em Mark Shurtleff!

Let it be .... Let the winning BCS Bowl winner be the BCS Champion and the Non BCS winner play them for a National Championship. How many BCS wins would occur? We might be surprised how many superior teams are out there waiting to KB at a championship game. Put the BCS where they belong. Let them earn the title like everyone else. The "Rich Kids" on the block are no better than many others who live there. They deserve to be humbled. Utah could do it this year given a chance.

I guess I will settle for a couple of small BCS bucks when I know there is a larger one lurking out there in Utah wishing he could take them on.

you keep talking about fairness and competition like it matters to the BCS. Why would they want to add two more conferences to divide up their money with? They do not care if other teams are as good or better.

It is MONEY and schemeing a way to break the money monopoly they have is the only way to combat the BCS.

um the bcs is legal? are you kidding me? then why on earth wont they let a team that was undefeated like utah play for the national title!?!? seriously its the mob! all they are out to do is gain big buku bucks$$$$$$! they wont ever let a team win who is not part of the bcs or as i like to call it the "mob"

Are you surprised?

By next season, Utah will have pulled out a come-from-behind squeaker because of a blown call by the officials.

Not true. Simply not true in my book. They may win legal battles now, but the Utah and Boise State wins have truly exposed the BCS for the LOAD OF CRAP IT REALLY IS!!!!

Let's hope that the end of the BCS comes sooner instead of later.

This is easy, then. Let the ACC lose their at large bid, and give it to the MWC. If it's so well structured and so fair, just let them lose their at large bid. If an ACC team goes undefeated, "The BCS provided a platform for ACC team X to show the nation what a terrific football they had this year." Swofford said. "Preceding the BCS, I don't know if that platform would have been there."

Works for me.

The anti-trust laws regarding this matter need to be challenged regardless of who or how many choose to challenge it. In view of how slowly the wheels of progress move, maybe the non'BCS D-1 schools should form their own alliance and create their own national championship, similar to what the AFL did many years ago to force the hand of the NFL. It's obviously not quite the same thing but the theory still applies. This way there would be a true challenge to who the National Champion really was. Example; say Utah in the non-BCS polls advanced to the championship game and won and ended the season ranked #1 in the non-BCS D-1 polls. How long would it be before the BCS champion would have to play them to determine who the real champion was. It might cause a complete reconstruction of the bowl system where non-BCS schools are playing BCS schools in a variety of post season bowl games as well. I'm sure there are many holes in this idea but changes need to be made and non-BCS schools need to do something to control their own destiny. Any thoughts on this?