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Hatch endorses anti-BCS group
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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..
Maybe I am missing something here... can you explain why Congress should be bothered with this?
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.
BCS = monopoly.
This absolutely falls under the congressional power to regulate interstate commerce. Setting up "free" health care for all does not.
A classic monopoly.
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.)
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?
- 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.
--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.
If the BCS won't listen to the public, we need our elected officials to speak for us.
Great job Senator Hatch!
Must be an election coming up. How soon?
Wars, hunger, pestilence, disease, terrorism and terrorists, and our senator wastes his time on this.
Good grief, play to the masses. I must be living in Rome about 2000 years ago.
If the NCAA cannot do it job and provide a platform for fair competition, then they should be replaced with better people that can get the job done.
Today we no longer have I-A and I-AA, but supposedly have two Division I groupings, the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) and the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS). Only problem is that there are in fact three Div I groupings, The FCS where anyone can with the NC, the FBS where any BCS school can win the NC, and the Non-Automatically-Qualifying Subdivision (NAS) where no one can win the NC.
Either the NAS should be officially recognized as the third subdivision of Div I or the BCS should be eliminated so that the NAS goes back to being part of the FBS. I think right now it would be better to call them Div. I-A, I-AA (MWC and WAC included here), and I-AAA.
In favor of the socialism required for the government to interfere with the operations of college sports.
Hooray for having priorities straight.
NCAA tournament has it right.
If the first two rounds are conducted immediately following the season, there would only be three remaining games in the tournament. Hold the three games for the final four at three of the major bowls and allow all teams not still involved in the tournament to compete in the rest of the bowls. That way the bowls can still continue and we get a true champion.
1. I pay taxes too and I want them to work on this problem now. Does it make me a bad person because I want the football problem resolved before the war problems? Probably, but I pay taxes too and I get my say.
2. If the politicians can solve this one, I will be more confident in their further ventures. If they can't solve a simple football problem, then why would they be able to solve the other problems listed?
3. I agree that winter would be much better with December Madness.
Thank you for helping the passion survive.
Look who's reading and blogging about sports.
If it makes you feel better, do your part by rooting sports out of your life.
For all of those complaining about a politician spending a little time investigating the BCS, SHUT UP already!
The issue may not be important to you, but it is important to me, and to millions of other voters.
Thank you Senator Hatch for addressing an issue that I, a taxpaying voter, consider important!
I am so tired of the political conflicts in this country today. College football is a break from all of that stress. Besides, I would love to see our elected politicians do something that actually makes sense, instead of the bad ideas that they keep proposing. This is a no-brainer. The BCS just doesn't make sense.
No polls, no rankings. Wins and losses in the regular season against league opponents determines the conference champion, who advances to the playoff against an opponent seeded by an NCAA committee.
Why, becasue that's the way its done in every other college sport!
Look at what's brought change so far--2004/2009 congressional hearings and Obama's comments on the stump. They won't listen to the public, so thank you Senator Hatch for sticking up for your constituents.
This is a disgrace to Utah. Hatch just wants to be popular and feel important instead of doing the work that needs to be done to fi, our nation. Bennett is the same. I plead with all of the great citizens of Utah vote both out next time. BTW, I am a CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN.
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