"Playoffs? Don't talk about playoffs!"
Posted on 01/06/2009 6:08:29 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
Utah's attorney general is investigating the Bowl Championship Series for a possible violation of federal antitrust laws after an undefeated Utes team was left out of the national title game for the second time in five years.
Attorney General Mark Shurtleff contends the BCS unfairly puts schools like Utah, which is a member of a conference without an automatic bid to the lucrative bowl games, at a competitive and financial disadvantage.
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"Playoffs? Don't talk about playoffs!"
Go Utah go.
As a Longhorn fan, I’ve got to say that undefeated Utah has got one hell of an argument. Nick Saben is still wondering what the heck happened.
This BCS mess has got to change. Teams like Utah deserve a chance at the title.
Good grief. What a waste of time for the attorney general of Utah.
“Good grief. What a waste of time for the attorney general of Utah.”
Well, he is a State employee. It’s in their job description.
Its money to Utah.
So, what, now the list of “entitlements” extends to awards from others’ organizations?
It’s very simple. They can run their silly-ass competition any way they choose. If it’s not a good business model, it will cost them. But if it’s not your organization, you have no right to dictate how it’s run.
Government involvement in college football is as ludicrous as the baseball/steroids waste of time Congress went through (and as unjustified as its intrusion into all the other private, voluntary interactions that third party whiners feel entitled to force their will on).
When someone figures out how to make a playoff system more profitable than the bowl system, playoffs will happen.
In and of itself, I would agree. However, many of those schools are state institutions, which receive state funding. States have the right to dictate how their funded institutions do business.
Gators are #1. Go Gators!
Utah is utilizing a twelve man offense.
The current system used in D1 football is an embarrassment.
“When someone figures out how to make a playoff system more profitable than the bowl system, playoffs will happen”
The question is: More profitable for whom?
Right now it is the ‘big’ conferences at the expense of Div 1 as a whole.
Anti-trust in my book.
Playoffs would be much, much more profitable but it would be spread amoung all of Div 1. Heaven help us if that should happen.
The problem is that Utah doesn’t belong to the organization that is the root of the problem (the BCS) because Utah’s conference wasn’t asked to join. Utah is a part of the NCAA football bowl subdivision (formerly known as Division 1), so they should by all rights be eligible for the same bowl games and privileges of any other NCAA FBS member institution. However, in this case, a subset of the FBS schools, seeing LOTS of money on the table, got together and agreed to exclude the remainder of the schools in the FBS from their “championship”, and, therefore, the money. Sounds like an antitrust case to me.
its a waste of time and money in some ways....in other ways, why should some colleges be the recipients of untold millions just because they are “popular” ?.....I am sick of the rich schools getting richer because of their name only....
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