Posted on 12/31/2009 9:03:33 AM PST by Desperado67
Of all the campaign promises that President Barack Obama made, the only one that I hope he does not break is the one to try to get a playoff system in Division I college football and scrap the anti-trust and discriminatory BCS system. Given how many of his other promises that he has already broken, I am not holding out much hope that Obama will keep this one. However, hopefully Senator Orrin Hatch and others will keep the pressure and the attention on this issue.
This is actually the ultimate affirmative action case, so it seems like an issue that Obama and his Democrat Party cohorts would be all over. The BCS system clearly is designed to favor certain conferences and even certain individual teams over all the others. Only six so-called BCS conferences receive an automatic bid to a BCS bowl game, whereas the other conferences have no automatic qualifier at all.
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Still time to vote on Bull Run about the Fiesta Bowl ;)
http://bull-run.blogspot.com/2009/12/fiesta-bowl-sham-scam-or-grand-slam.html
Who apologize? The Horns are 7-0-1 against Alabama. Why would this game be any different?
I can already taste that smooth Kentucky Bourbon!
Roll Tide!
Indeed we shall.
Well, that's probably from your existing stash :-)
Touché.
I donno. The defense, maybe. The offense. The special teams. Something like that.
I just came back from visiting my parents in McKinney, TX, and the Longhorn fans there seemed very subdued.
Caught me!
Actually I'm a bit bourbon flush right now. A friend gave me a bottle of Woodford Reserve for helping addict him to benchrest shooting, my BIL gave me a bottle of Russel Reserve and I've got half a bottle of Knob Creek plus my usual stash of Maker's Mark.
I'm thinking about having a bourbon tasting party for the BCS Championship game!
Well, the game isn't for another week :-)
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