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Senate to begin BCS hearings
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Will Sen. Hatch use this hearing to also call on Democrats and Republicans to create a level-playing field for Greens, Libertarians, and other voters independent of the bipartisan cartel?
It doesn't take a lawyer to figure our the unfairness of the BCS.
Go Hatch! Go Shurtleff! Go Young!
I think the BCS will not change anything they do. They are arrogant and now we see where the SEC gets the arrogance. They get more money than anybody in the BCS so they can afford to do what ever they want!
If the NCAA wants a football champion, they can institute their own playoff.
Of course, the BCS runs the NCAA, too.
We should be very excited about the way our teams play and the way they are coached.
Looking forward to the season!
While I don't believe the government should intervene; it is a foregone conclusion that BCS schools' academics and overall standing benefit way beyond athletics because of this revenue stream.
It is this simple: Boycott all ads during football games between BCS teams. Watch the games, enjoy the fun, punish the advertisers.
In fact, a government getting in the way of the economy is AGAINST the constitution.
The government getting it's dirty hands involved only makes it worse. An economy based on goods and services can only fail if it is not guided by the principles of a free market unconstrained by the government.
Our founders felt that way, and they were right. The only way for our government to fix our economy is to get out of our way, and stop spending money on things that they have no business spending on.
Ciao
However, one sweet game doesn't make for a national champion. Try playing five or six nationally ranked teams back to back in your regular season. Perhaps if the Utes had dominated all of the MWC games they would deserve more respect.
Utah was best MWC team last year, but National Champ Material? Hardly!
Small conferences complain about equity, yet the so called big boys generate big money during the regular seasons. Look at the BYU-Oklahoma game. BYU will make 1.5 million (OU 2.5 million). For BYU that's around what they make by winning the conference title and going to Vegas Bowl. Just another game for OU... another 'money maker'. The BCS does favor the teams who go the most often because of the money. Utah's been twice! Several teams have made BCS bowls multiple times, very few others have gone twice (like the Utes). They are in a select group. If anything they are as much a part of the BCS system as anybody? They've cashed the checks when given the chance. Hypocrites! Isn't that what you call people who say one thing and do another! If Utah is so "deprived" by the BCS they should have said "NO" to the Sugar Bowl, taken roughly a 14 million pay cut and gone to Vegas!
Wah Wah Wah!!!!!
(Yea, we know you already one a championship!)
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Hallelujah ... let's hope this all leads to the end of the BCS farce and a real NCAA National Championship playoff system!
Please make it a 16 team playoff with all conference champions automatically in and the remaining 5 seeds chosen via a committee similar to the basketball playoffs.