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Title: Congress and the BCS
Post by: thelamefalsehood on May 01, 2009, 09:06:25 PM: Congress wants to introduce legislation to make a playoff system in the CFB Bowl Series. Is this good or bad? Good to have a playoff system, bad that Congress feals the need to do it. Slippery slopes.................

http://www.cbssports.com/columns/story/11699860
Title: Re: Congress and the BCS
Post by: ATHEIST on May 01, 2009, 09:20:04 PM: people say Congress should have better things to spend their time on, however i dont think it would take much time at all to come to a decision.
the BCS is a joke, if you dont play by their rules you wont be invited.
Title: Re: Congress and the BCS
Post by: Andy Griffin on May 02, 2009, 11:59:48 AM: Quote from: thelamefalsehood on May 01, 2009, 09:06:25 PM
Congress wants to introduce legislation to make a playoff system in the CFB Bowl Series. Is this good or bad? Good to have a playoff system, bad that Congress feals the need to do it. Slippery slopes.................

http://www.cbssports.com/columns/story/11699860

I agree about slippery slopes. Anytime somebody gets mad about something, no matter how trivial, the person either runs crying to a lawyer, or now, to Congress. As I said a few months ago, this is more about grandstanding politicians than anything else.
Title: Re: Congress and the BCS
Post by: 2ND COMING on May 02, 2009, 12:08:45 PM: wait,you guys dont think theres anything wrong with the "bcs" ?
Title: Re: Congress and the BCS
Post by: Andy Griffin on May 02, 2009, 12:16:48 PM: Quote from: 2ND COMING on May 02, 2009, 12:08:45 PM
wait,you guys dont think theres anything wrong with the "bcs" ?

I'm not saying the BCS isn't gayer than asking a woman's opinion on a major purchase; I'm saying that the government needs to stay out of the matter. If enough people are bright enough to not watch the "National Championship" a couple times, the powers that be will suddenly be more open to change.
Title: Re: Congress and the BCS
Post by: Dos Equis on May 02, 2009, 12:19:54 PM: Quote from: ATHEIST on May 01, 2009, 09:20:04 PM
people say Congress should have better things to spend their time on, however i dont think it would take much time at all to come to a decision.
the BCS is a joke, if you dont play by their rules you wont be invited.

I agree. Complete joke. I'm more interested to see what the Utah AG (and others) can develop with the antitrust argument.
Title: Re: Congress and the BCS
Post by: 2ND COMING on May 02, 2009, 12:21:16 PM: Quote from: Andy Griffin on May 02, 2009, 12:16:48 PM
I'm not saying the BCS isn't gayer than asking a woman's opinion on a major purchase; I'm saying that the government needs to stay out of the matter. If enough people are bright enough to not watch the "National Championship" a couple times, the powers that be will suddenly be more open to change.

the powers that be dont earn their bread through good tv ratings

thats bad logic. " if people are smart enough not to watch, then the big wigs will create a playoff system"

thats just not the case
Title: Re: Congress and the BCS
Post by: Andy Griffin on May 02, 2009, 12:23:11 PM: Quote from: 2ND COMING on May 02, 2009, 12:21:16 PM
the powers that be dont earn their bread through good tv ratings

thats bad logic. " if people are smart enough not to watch, then the big wigs will create a playoff system"

thats just not the case

It's perfectly logical. The problem is that most of the people who whine and bitch about the BCS like a chubby teen on her period still watch the games.
Title: Re: Congress and the BCS
Post by: Dos Equis on May 05, 2009, 06:54:40 PM: It's really not realistic to expect a boycott. Will not happen. People will watch. That's doesn't make it right.