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PING

[coconutt2000]

Any knowledgeable people out there able to tell me what would happen if the Congressional committee tasked to regulate our sports industry didn't exist?

[MikefromOhio]

jeez not ANOTHER thing the Government has no right to get into......

The BCS sucks, but that isn't for Congress to get into.

[MikefromOhio]

College Football Ping.

Freepmail me to be added to this list.

[buckeyesrule]

Well when I say my prayers tonight I will thank God that congress has done such a great job of taking care of the big problems in this world that now congress can focus on the BCS.

[GSlob]

Verily we are living in the most blessed days when the congressional committees have no national business more important than looking into the baboonery otherwise known as collegiate sports.

[hispanarepublicana]

Joe Barton is an Aggie......what concern about the BCS do the Aggies have?

[USNBandit]

I have an idea. Why doesn't Congress finish this year's defense budget first. We are in the middle of a war and Congress can't get the budget done. If BCS is screwed up let the teams take the NCAA to court.

[rdb3]

We need a 15-team playoff. The #1 team would receive a bye, which would leave seven games for those 14 other teams.

Every game should be played at a neutral site.

After round one, the seven remaining teams will be joined with the #1 team which had the bye. So that leaves 8 teams. Four games in round two, two in round three, then the championship game. All of this should take place beginning the weekend after Thanksgiving. Every game should be played by the end of the semester, except for the championship. Have that game after the new year.

So now where's the problem?

[darkangel82]

College football is not just an exhilarating sport, but a billion-dollar business that Congress cannot ignore," said committee Chairman Joe Barton, a Texas Republican.

More big government and socialism...and this guy calls himself a Republican?

[Mr. Mojo]

I'm ambivalent about this. College football has undoubtedly the worst system of any sport, college or pro, and I'd love to see it changed. But I don't like Congress sticking their nose where it doesn't belong.

[kittymyrib]

Good grief...I thought this was Scrappleface. Texas is drowning in criminal illegals, and Joe Barton wants hearings on the BCS bowls, proving once again that Congress is clueless. I really don't think we should allow congress to have a thing to do with sports. It's the only thing they haven't managed to screw up.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

No time for Alito hearings, but time to study the stupid BCS system - typical Congress

[CharlesWayneCT]

Is there NOTHING too petty for our government to stick it's nose into?

Aren't there any citizens left using legal drugs to improve their ability to hit little balls long distances for the congresskids to harrass?

[Fido969]

Why is OUR CONGRESS getting involved is regulating sports?

Screw them.

[thoughtomator]

This is a joke, right?


... right?

[Rocky]

I'm no big fan of the BCS, but Congress should butt out of this one. They stick their noses into way too many things as it is.

[Hong Kong Expat]

I miss College Football here in HK.

I like the convoluted bowl system, Heck I liked it even better before the BCS. Think what games we would have had under the old system:
Penn State vs. USC in Rose
Texas vs. VTech in Orange
Ohio State/ND vs LSU winner in Sugar
ND/Ohio State vs. Auburn/Miami/Oregon

Any every game would have been meaningful - When Penn State beats USC... And we'd be talking about it for the next 9 moths of which team is really the best.

Now (or even in the playoff system) USC plays Texas, Winner is national champ. Nobody talks about College football until next Semester, When does march madness come around? Nobody talks about College basketball two days after.

[Fenris6]

Joe Barton (R, Texas) announced that due to a boring December, Congress will look into a "deeply flawed" BCS and decide who will play in BCS bowl games.

Better pick up a hobby Joe. Our congress-critters are going to get some well-deserved time off in 06.

Retirement.

[Space Wrangler]

Play-offs. That is the only solution.