Comments about ‘Hatch asks Obama to probe BCS’

Love it Orrin! Let's keep up the pressure until the BCS evil empire crumbles!

Because the BCS is so much more important than anything else the POTUS has on his national and global agenda.

Waiter, check please!

Just try being president! We could sure use one.

What a stupid, stupid idea. Please Senator Hatch, focus on issues that really matter and leave the President alone.

Get real! Let's deal with real issues and problems in this country, not a stupid game that kids play.

Orrin, we don't need a big federal government solution to every problem. BYU lost. Get over it. This is only college football and not nuclear proliferation. Is is America. You can start a new football division if you don't like the BCS. Quit asking nanny government to bail you out. If BYU quit the BCS it might force change.

Sure, blame Obama. Forget that it's Utah's hero, Orrin Hatch, that is asking Obama to waste his time on it.

Walks out on major health care talks, yet hangs around to worry about the BCS. Bahhahahah...ranks right up there with Obama going to get us the olympics...bahahaahahah!

This "stupid game that kids play" (EKBJ 11:35 10/21) generates millions upon millions of dollars of income for colleges, particularly for those in the BCS. It also generates millions upon millions of dollars of advertising revenue. The United States has historically been opposed to entities that restrain trade, which the BCS does. In the past, the federal government has broken up other monopolies, trusts, and the like because they inhibit free competition. Wait... competition?? Isn't that somehow part of CAPITALISM? We certainly don't like capitalism, do we? We much prefer socialism. On second thought, let's not investigate the BCS for fear of promoting free trade and capitalism!

Ok, BCS is unfair, I get it. Does anybody doing all the complaining see how ridiculous they look?

Anonymous (11:42 a.m. 10/21), BYU isn't IN the BCS. The BCS won't let it in, nor will it let most other colleges in. It's a closed group. Doesn't matter how good you are, they won't let you in to their club or access to all their lucrative contracts. That's why it restricts free trade and might even be ILLEGAL!

I'm sorry, folks, but this isn't "just" college football anymore. Even college football has turned into big business, generating millions of dollars of revenue. It's a shame, but that's the way it is. And that's why the term "student athlete" is fast becoming an oxymoron.

Nice going, Senator Hatch. Your letter does something. So often in Washington D.C. our senators and representatives are in stalemate. Little actually happens. We elect Bob Bennett because his ads say the Internal Revenue Code is too large. Has it gotten any smaller in all these years? Real issues and problems in this country are getting all the attention a divided Congress wishes to give them. They'll move when its politically expedient. In the meantime, we might get some progress with these other things.

Do the job you were elected to do or else you will be voted out. Bennett is going down next year.

Sure, the BCS violates antitrust laws, but the health insurance industry (espousing "free market" ideals while at the same time refusing to compete with the public option) does not. Glad to see you have your priorities straight when it comes to important issues, Senator!

Keep at it Senator. The state of Utah deserves the money as much or more than the BCS states. But, Obama stiffed Republican input on health care and he will probably do the same on the BCS monopoly. The Obama-ites will drink his Kool-aid and follow him into national bankruptcy. Wait, that's already happened.

Mr. Hatch, I'm not sure where you derive any power to be fooling around with college football.

In fact, I'm not sure where you get the power to do most of the stuff you people think is so important that you're doing. How about reading the constitution that you're talked about so much in that past, and that you've taken an oath to protect.

In my opinion, people like Hatch _are_ domestic enemies of the constitution.

JB | 12:34 p.m It's both amusing and interesting watching this from the outside. If football ended tomorrow, it won't bother me. I like Cal because of its academic reputation. It took BYU fans to turn me against a school in my native state. BYU has the most arrogant fans in America.

Conservatives whine about growing the power of our federal government. Conservative run to government for solutions. It's years of running to the government that has grown government, increasing the costs of government and adding regulations.

You're part of your problem. Bush grew government at a record rate. He added a new Department doing what was done by the FBI. When has a new department been a solution?

In America, traditionally, we fight for our beliefs. Fighting comes at a cost. If BYU quit the BCS it would create ripples. You want to fight without risking a thing.

MWC,

Please stop your whining. You are embarrassing all of the conferences. If you want to join the BCS Conferences then you need to go out and win BCS games. Just like we do in the WAC. Have fun watching us on ESPN. I would watch your games but they are on Versus and The Mountain. I don't get those channels.

Hahaha Its so funny to listen to anti freedom/american people talk.

1. Its UTAH, NOT BYU Hatch has ties to.
2. Hatch must represent the will of his voters.
By walking out of health care he did that. By demanding HOPE & CHANGE to an elite corrupt ncaa playoff system he is doing that. (and I dont agree with the FEDS getting involved even if the NCAA is WRONG ) So Even though I dont support Federal intervention in anything but what the constitution allows.

Having not voted for Hatch it is assinine to question him in doing what the MAJORITY of his voters WANT him to do.

And to those whinning about focusing on major topics. He is.

Did Obama really use the word "nudge?" He always has been forthcomming on his being a radical, but nobody cares.