Comments about ‘Hatch endorses anti-BCS group’

This is not an issue for the Senate

Hatch cheers new anti-BCS PAC.... Ha.ha.ha...

How about the following.

Hatch cheers new anti-insurance company PAC?..Ha.ha.ha...

Hatch should give his 1 million dollars back to the people that he recieved from the Insurance industry who robbed it from the people.

Money so he could look the other way as americans health suffers.

Its more important for us all right now since people are dying instead of Football injustice.

Ask the BCS to change when you change, Mr Hatch. 30 years of recieving these donations while turning down any type of healthcare change during this time.

Where much is recieved (insurance companies), much is required (Look the other way)... Sad... Profits over People... instead of people of Profits..

amen!! about time..its time the have notsget what the have's have..bout time some people stand up to the big colleges and draw the line in the sand..

You bet it is an issue for the U.S. Senate! Have you ever heard of anti trust laws? Millions of dollars are at stake for tax payer funded schools that blocked out by the BCS.

Why should the Senate have anything to do with this? I am not a college football fan, I understand that people are frustrated but do you really want the government involved?

Maybe I am missing something here... can you explain why Congress should be bothered with this?

how about b/c Congress' job is to make citizens' lives better, and frankly, we'd all make it through long winters a bit easier if we had a "December Madness" playoff to watch.

Or maybe they should just wait two years when the BCS contract is over. Then you'll have some real change. Or they can just shoot the dead horse over and over and hope that it dies a little more each time.

I am surprised Hatch took time out from protecting the obscene profits of the health care industry, at the expense of American families, to actually look at another subject. That could cause him to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars in "donations" from the health care industry.

At least Hatch is wanting private fat cat money to fight the BCS. Shurtleff wants tax dollars, carefully timed in spending, so that he gets maximum bang for OUR money. Last time it was Warren Jeffs and Shurtleff's social welfare programs for polygamists. What a clown!

It is time for the gutless NCAA to step up and say: Here is the football tournament that will decide the Division 1A national champion. Here is how its participants are determined. Here's how it works.

The NCAA has the responsibility and the authority to do this. Further, the NCAA has no requirement to grandfather the bowl games. The NCAA's mandate is to do what is right for Division 1A college football. Period.

Where do I send a check?? It's time to take down the BCS. Whining about it won't help. An organized lobbying effort might. Good thinking!

Collusion, collaboration, monopolies and such produce a poor product. Non BCS teams have competed just fine in that money grab program. Go non BCS teams!

Health care industry. Not a monopoly.

BCS = monopoly.

This absolutely falls under the congressional power to regulate interstate commerce. Setting up "free" health care for all does not.

Thousands of jobs and hundreds of millions of dollars are controlled by the BCS where a bare majority of schools dictates the rules for all of major college football and prohibits non-BCS schools from having equal access to the college football market.

A classic monopoly.

I also want the NCAA to get a spine, speak out, and take control. I just don't see it happening. The recently deceased Miles Brand showed guts to fire Bobby Knight at Indiana when Brand was president there. Yet while heading the NCAA he wasn't willing to fight the BCS. I don't see anything happening by the NCAA until they feel threatened somehow, like the BCS overshadowing them. Oh, wait, isn't that already the case?

Until the non-AQ schools stand up together, maybe through litigation, the BCS won't change. (I also don't see Congress getting serious enough to intervene. Having Congress get involved is really the least desirable, in my opinion.)

BCS = bad.

Anti-BCS PAC = good.

16 team playoff based on BCS formula for rankings for top 16 teams no matter the conference. Rotate major bowls for playoff games. Takes 4 weeks to complete, when most teams are done by the end of November anyway. Only two teams would play 16 games if they made it all through.

Huge ratings, more money for all, equity among all teams, ONE TRUE CHAMPION! Sounds good to me! President Obama, where is our NCAA football czar?

Aren't there bigger problems in the world for our pokiticians to be worrying about other than college football? Let's solve some real problems first, the worry about the BCS.

It would be nice to see our Senator and his cronies in the Senate and the House put as much energy and concern into solving some of our real problems in this country as they seem willing to do over the BCS circus. How about these issues, just to name a few?
- the wars that are killing young Americans in defense of corrupt governments in both Iraq and Afganistan
- health care for those without
- quality education for all young Americans
- unemployment
- equal representation and standing under the law for all Americans
- etc., etc., etc.

I guess my priorities are all screwed up again.

--All 11 conference champions plus the next 5 highest ranked teams (AP and Coaches polls combined)
--seeded by a selection committee just like the NCAA basketball tournament
--first round played on the home fields of the higher seeds the first Saturday after Christmas
--quarter-finals played in the Orange, Sugar, Fiesta and Rose bowls the next Saturday
--semi-finals played in two of the previous bowls the next Saturday
--final played in one of those bowl sites the next Saturday
--just like the NIT co-exists NCAA basketball tournament, other bowls could still be played anytime except for the first and second Saturdays after Christmas
--if this makes the season too long, eliminate the conference championship games

It's not hard to figure out and the revenue generated from a major college football tournament would dwarf the current BCS bowl payout AND

EVERY major college football team would have an equal opportunity to play for the championship and share in a portion of the tournament revenue.

there will be a major college football tournament and fans will look back on the early 2000s and wonder why the BCS ever existed, since having a tournament to decide the championship is a no-brainer.