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Jay Evensen: Shurtleff has nation a-twitter over BCS posting
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A champion is one who defeats all challengers. Utah did that, Florida didn't. I think the AG has a valid point and should follow it, wherever it leads.
Thanks for the effort--I think the six conferences use the rest of the teams in the country to build national interest, without giving them a chance to share in the ultimate game with its ultimate rewards.
He has an ax to grind. NOT IMPRESSED. Besides he is a nobody. He has no clout. Move on.
Is that true? It seems to me that if the BCS approached all the conferences with this plan, there would be at least a few who wouldn't have bought in. Did everyone really sign up for this system?
Owning slaves in this country was once legal solid ground.
Made illegal.
Fully automatic weapons could be bought through the Sears catalog back in the 1920's.
Made illegal.
What other choice were the D. 1 college presidents given? Oh, there was no other choice given. Bam! Now you have an antitrust case.
Just because the D. 1 schools went with the system does not make it legal. Either they signed up for the system, and get the money that goes with it, or don't go with the system and get ZERO dollars.
Yeah, it is an anti trust violation. It was from the outset.
It gives preference to certain schools.
I say good for Shurtleff.
And just because somebody can do something, get away with it, and call it legal does not make it so.
I think from a legal perspective, the BCS is against the law. If AT&T can be broken up for antitrust violations, so can the BCS. Oh, and AT&T said they were legal befor the courts said it was illegal and broke it up as well...
If the NCAA is "sactioning" the BCS what other alternatives would non-BCS schools have?
Seems to me there are a lot of questions that have not been explored or presented to the general public. I don't think that you can always take statements at face value especially when so much money is at stake!
The BCS is all about power and greed, in my opinion.
Or
"Don't agree with it, and you will get *no* money."
The BCS schools, that came up with the plan, get a ton of money. And they get automatic bowl games. The non-BCS schools get very little money, and at-large bids to bowl games (when the BCS-owned computers) let them.
Shurtleff was just re-elected by a huge margin. This is not political, this is about enforcing the same laws that were broken and allowed a handful of huge financial institutions to drag us all down into a recession. A small group of wealthy, powerful institutions caused the credit collapse. Laws that keep the rich and powerful under control are about to become very popular. Bring it on, Mr. Attorney General. This is no waste of time; this is the rule of law being enforced to undo a major inequity. Sports is merely the context.
It wasn't a real issue to the schools who weren't going to ever get to play there anyway. These conferences were more worried about getting ANY bowl to give them an automatic bid to their game. That was part of sell job on the package. "We will expand the number of bowl games significantly and give you an automatic bid to a second or 3rd tier bowl game if you buy into the BCS scheme.
Conferences that were never going to get to the BCS bowls anyway and just wanted to be affiliated with ANY bowl had to go along if they wanted a chance to participate in ANY bowl game.
It's a racket... setup to have a lot of benefit to the big BCS schools, but also a little bone to throw to the non-BCS schools so they have to buy in as well.
When a conference like the MWC has a down year, it's nice to have a fall-back like the Vegas bowl to insure at least the conference winner will get the reward and post-season recognition.
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