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December 02, 2005
There oughta be a law
I'm glad Congress is "tackling" the important stuff:
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."
Posted by oz115 at December 2, 2005 07:56 PM
Comments
Barton is probably an alumnus of East Podunk School of Soybean Arts, which went undefeated this year in the less-than-powerhouse Moonshine Conference, but failed to gain a BCS bid.
Posted by: Pete at December 5, 2005 09:56 AM