Sen. Hatch Charges..College Football's Bowl Championship Series Violates Federal Anti-Monopoly Law

CNSNEWS.com ^ | July 8, 2009 | Edwin Mora

[zimfam007]

.....Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), who chaired the hearing of the antitrust, competition policy and consumer rights subcommittee, said the BCS bowl “regime” is best described as a violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act--a law aimed at protecting against monopolies and business arrangements that stifle competition.........

[BGHater]

Awesome.

lest=least

[truthguy]

Hatch is ticked off because he thinks Utah got cheated out of a BCS championship game a couple years back. This is the last thing we need to worry about now.

I'm really sick of this type of nonsense. First it was baseball steroids and now this idiocy.

Please Hatch focus on the important stuff.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

How could Hatch be talking about the BCS when Michael Jackson has died.... isn’t he in mourning? (Do I really need the sarc tag?)

[Jim from C-Town]

God we just need term limits.

[zimfam007]

LOL

[cookcounty]

I wonder if Orin Hatch ever thought of doing something important with his life.

[americanophile]

Someone get this man a toga!

[GreyMountainReagan]

"Before we worry about college football, we need to go after that company that makes those little round urinal cakes. Talk about a monopoly/

LOL.

[eekitsagreek]

Before we worry about college football, we need to go after that company that makes those little round urinal cakes. Talk about a monopoly.

Now there is a company with a product that will always be in demand!

[jospehm20]

What an idiotic thing for a Senator to worry about.

[GreyMountainReagan]

"He is only bringing this up because Utah went undefeated and did not make it to the BCS Championship Game."

And he thinks it is crucial to our country's survival. Absolutely crucial.

[ActrFshr]

Hatch is another RINO.

If Republicans ever want to win back American support they must STOP legislation that increases government authority and START legislation that increases private authority.

The country is bankrupting itself with more and more rules and instead of realizing how unpopular it is, Republicans are demanding more rules be made?!?! EARTH TO REPUBLICANS! THIS WAY OF THINKING WILL LOSE YOU EVEN MORE SEATS IN 2010!!!

Besides...
All this does is stick government’s nose into more private issues. BCS is unpopular yes, but it’s existence is due to the fact that the previous system was broken. A playoff system would be more problematic with students’ studies, injuries, social lives, economic situations (for walk-ons with jobs), professional lives (for the 99%+ not going to the NFL), and you know what? The top teams will play that many more games than the non-top teams widening the payout discrepancy even further!! Then we’ll have more calls for student athletes to get paid. Then we’ll have even more corruption in the system...

[Nextrush]

My rudimentary knowledge of college football and Orrin Hatch makes me think he is running interference for a certain school from his home state.

A school that gets left out in the cold with this system.

[FreepShop1]

Orrin...please STFU and just stop the damned Cap ‘n Tax bill!

[Porterville]

Good for him- ‘bout time

[SuperLuminal]

Sports enhancing drugs redux!

Let's kill a couple more years with stupid photo ops and hearings...

[dr_lew]

iam strident ignes, iam follibus atque caminus ardet adiratum populo caput et crepat ingens Seianus - Juvenal

... and now the flames are hissing, and amid the roar of furnace and of bellows the head of the mighty Sejanus, the darling of the mob, is burning and crackling

[The Duke]

Orrin probably ought to throw in the perennial “Flag Burning Amendment” for good measure.

[Zack Attack]

Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah)...said the BCS bowl “regime” is best described as a violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act--a law aimed at protecting against monopolies and business arrangements that stifle competition.

BCS bowl “regime”? Are you sure he didn't mean to say the Obama “regime”? That seems to involve business arrangements stifling competition more than any BCS game.

[muawiyah]

Obviously Hatch is going after the antitrust laws. It's clear that most of us LIKE the results of the semi-monopolistic behavior related to college athletic conferences ~ and we would probably not be happy with the results of a "bowl selection process" created by government regulators.

If antitrust laws interfere in the pleasures of watching "Bowls" then it's time to rewrite those laws ~ not regulate the college teams.

BTW, a rewrite of antitrust legislation would necessarily slop over into some other stuff!