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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: RedTop on December 02, 2005, 06:30:24 PM
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Hmmm....slow day in Politics?
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HOUSTON -- Calling the Bowl Championship Series "deeply flawed," the chairman of a congressional committee has called a hearing on the controversial system used to determine college football's national champion.
A House Energy and Commerce subcommittee, charged with regulating America's sports industry, announced Friday it will conduct a hearing on the BCS next week, after this season's bowl matchups are determined.
"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. Barton's panel is separate from the House Government Reform panel that tackled steroids in baseball.
The committee announcement called the hearing, scheduled for next Wednesday, a "comprehensive review" of the BCS and postseason college football.
"Too often college football ends in sniping and controversy, rather than winners and losers," Barton said. "The current system of determining who's No. 1 appears deeply flawed."
Barton said he does not have legislation in mind to force a change, but said he hopes congressional hearings will spur discussion and improvements. It won't be the first time Congress has looked at the BCS. In 2003, the Senate probed whether the system was unfairly tilted against smaller schools.
NCAA Division I-A football does not have a playoff. The Bowl Championship Series was established in 1998 to determine a national champion using the traditional bowl system and a mix of computer and human polls to set up a championship game.
Because of the controversy surrounding the bowl selection process last season, The Associated Press told BCS officials to stop using its writers polls in its formula.
The committee invited testimony from Big 12 Commissioner Kevin Weiberg, the current chairman of the BCS.
"If members of the subcommittee have ideas on how the college football postseason can be improved, we welcome that input," Weiberg said.
"The current structure is designed to match the No. 1 and 2 ranked teams, identified through a ranking system, in a bowl game. It is an extension of the bowl system and a method to determine a national champion through the bowls," Weiberg said. "It has paired teams in bowl games that would not have been possible under the bowl arrangements existing before its creation."
Along with the acclaim of a national champion, the BCS also created a financial windfall with tens of millions of dollars at stake for teams and conferences who participate.
But it has seldom been without controversy.
For example, Southeastern Conference champion Auburn was undefeated in 2004 but was shut out of the BCS title game, which matched USC against Oklahoma. Utah also finished the season undefeated but could not play for the title.
The Jan. 4 Rose Bowl is the site of this year's BCS championship game. Other games with BCS ties are the Orange, Sugar and Fiesta bowls, with a rotating schedule for hosting the championship matchup.
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Heck yeah! Outlaw the BCS and make them do a playoff like I-AA.
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Originally posted by majic
Heck yeah! Outlaw the BCS and make them do a playoff like I-AA.
While I would agree with that statement....WTF is congress doing getting involved in College football. Seriously, it isn't like they put their grubby dirty fingers on everything else and screw it up but now they want to get into sports. Are lobbyist from other areas going broke that in order to get contributions they have to were they really don't belong.
Is there no other pressing issues in America that congress needs to look at this?
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PLS tell me that is from the Onion.
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reading the story I had what I can only imagine is the feeling a business owner gets when he stops by his shop to find his workforce has spent the entire day putting together a football pool.
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I love it when my tax dollars are spent wisely.
"...Oh, ho, ho, who wouldn't go
Up on a housetop, click, click, click..."
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Originally posted by FUNKED1
PLS tell me that is from the Onion.
Nope ESPN.COM
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It does seem that the time could be spent discussing the deeply flawed federal budget system.
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Okay, college football. Great isn't it? The athletes are unpayed outside of getting an education many of them don't want; and those that do usually get screwed out of it anyway (NCAA drinking game: Take a drink for every phony major that comes across the screen. Do a shot for "General Studies"). Meanwhile, the coaches are paid millions, and politicians at all levels find this a handy way to get themselves exposure and meddle in the operations of America's Universities.
Everybody wins.
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Got to agree...Shouldn't Congress be more concerned about Players getting a solid education? What's next? Perhaps they'll demand that USC change their name because Trojans is too much of an overt sexual reference;)
Regards,
HH
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They should lay about $3 trillion on TX & get the points. If they lose, they can always go double or nothing betting against the Colts in the Superbowl
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Originally posted by Gunslinger
While I would agree with that statement....WTF is congress doing getting involved in College football. Seriously, it isn't like they put their grubby dirty fingers on everything else and screw it up but now they want to get into sports. Are lobbyist from other areas going broke that in order to get contributions they have to were they really don't belong.
Is there no other pressing issues in America that congress needs to look at this?
Well put...
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This is outrages....everyone knows Ohio State always deserves No. 1.
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*Cough BULL**** COUGH*
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Congress is a giant toilet that needs to be flushed.
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Originally posted by capt. apathy
reading the story I had what I can only imagine is the feeling a business owner gets when he stops by his shop to find his workforce has spent the entire day putting together a football pool.
:rofl I'm about to fire people for playing that idiotic fantasy football on my time. some of these guys take it to fists in the shop. I have always disliked sportsfans and spectators.
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I like sports. hunting, fishing, scuba. anything with a ball and seats for people to watch is more a spectacle than a sport.
the fact that a ball player can make more money in a year (while providing no useful service) than a fireman, cop, or soldier can make in a lifetime should be a huge red flag that our society is in deep trouble.
BTW- (while I'm on this particular rant) actors make too damn much money as well, we where better off a couple hundred years ago when they held a social status somewhere between potatos and gypsies.
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Originally posted by capt. apathy
BTW- (while I'm on this particular rant) actors make too damn much money as well, we where better off a couple hundred years ago when they held a social status somewhere between potatos and gypsies.
Hookers are more important than doctors. I'd never walk up four flights of stairs to see a doctor.
--- Rodney Dangerfield
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Originally posted by capt. apathy
I like sports. hunting, fishing, scuba. anything with a ball and seats for people to watch is more a spectacle than a sport.
the fact that a ball player can make more money in a year (while providing no useful service) than a fireman, cop, or soldier can make in a lifetime should be a huge red flag that our society is in deep trouble.
BTW- (while I'm on this particular rant) actors make too damn much money as well, we where better off a couple hundred years ago when they held a social status somewhere between potatos and gypsies.
to add fuel to your rant it was also better when it called for the character to die in a play the thespian was sometimes called to make the supreme sacrifice for their art.