Posted on 03/07/2010 11:53:04 AM PST by legalwatch
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline)-Big legal troubles could be in store for the college football playoff system that the Utah attorney general says disadvantages his and other states.
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EXACTLY where his focus should be...asp whole is so out of touch it is nauseating...’course, on the other hand, it keeps him from screwing with the laws of the land, I guess.
We have a COMMUNIST in the White House, doing his utmost to destroy the US and enslave the American people, but this college football thing is REEEEELY important!!
Is this anything like the World Serious?
IMO, it's not as hugh.
They have a NCAA college football series with a real playoff system.
In fact, the NCAA has THREE playoff systems for football!
If you don’t like the BCS system, then play in one of the series with a playoff!
Quite frankly, the minute some of the bigger programs start to play in the playoffs, or the minute fans actually follow through on their “outrage” the entire BCS system will die, and die quickly.
Either college football is a collegiate activity, or it is professional sports. It can’t be both. If there is going to be a playoff system leading to a national champion, college football will have become an activity that is no longer compatible with ordinary academics. At that point, the colleges should just face facts and admit that they are running minor-league professional football teams, pay the players, and drop the pretense.
“Either college football is a collegiate activity, or it is professional sports.”
Neither.
It is PR and marketing and donation solicitation. I mean, the difference between Notre Dame and, say, Holy Cross (or Notre Dame and U-Chicago) is a high-caliber football program. A few years ago no one outside of Florida heard of “South Florida” but now it has almost the same name recognition as Miami.
The evidence is clear — when you have a great sports program, your student recruiting and fund raising gets much easier. When you’ve got your name on every TV in the nation on Saturday for hours, and on half of the tee shirts in your region, people think you’re better academically. Even the unrelated activity of faculty and staff recruitment gets easier!
Another component is that “minority” kids, according to my local minority leaders, can’t conceive of going to college to a place that doesn’t have a high-profile sports program. Therefore, recruiting minority students — and male students, which are now in the minority — gets easier.
But major college football doesn’t HAVE a playoff system. That’s why the AG is threatening suit.
There are a plethora of bigger problems all over the country.... and this guy has to spend the time and money of his constituents going after the structure of a football playoff system?
Throw him out of office.
While Utah might have some good football teams at the present, which are good candidates for the BCS, there again is no guarantee that all their teams in the future will be equally as talented.
Another outcome-based piece of legislation,........
The AG should spend more of his efforts with the legislation winding it’s way around the state house which would challenge the ability of the Feds to keep taking state property, and take back that property thru emminent domain.
There are millions of acres of low-sulfur coal beds in Southern Utah which could bring lots of money to the state in mining fees, jobs, and good low-sulfur coal for other generation of power. Clinton slammed the door on that mining, literally the day before the digging was to start. Leases were let & paid for. Machinery was in place. Men were hired to work, and Clinton shut it all down in favor of the coal deposits in Indonesia that the Rhiady’s owned.
This above is totally misguided, IMO.
I have a third alternative for you. I have been saying for years now that college ball of any sort is really just semi-professional sports. NCAA really stands for No Colleges Are Amateurs (any more).
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To be fair to the kids involved, they really ought to be paid like the professionals they are.
What has government touched and interfered with and made better?
I don’t want a government run college football playoff systemn any more than I want a government run health care system.
have you read the plan to merge the PAC 10 and Big 12 tv contract?
I+actually+haven’t.++You+got+a+link+to+it%3F
Swimming, diving, wrestling, skiing, hockey, etc. all have playoffs and all are programs with true student athletes. Your statement just doesn't make sense. Football has problems such as being "minor-league professional football" but playoffs have NOTHING to do with it.
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