Lawmaker Calls Hearing on 'Flawed' BCS

[acmejack]

HOUSTON (AP) -- 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.

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[Wickerman]

1. Joe Barton is a freak

A little weasel of a freak.

Kind of a mini Bug-man

[kainah]

2. if only

Congress would pay nearly as much attention to issues that really affect people's lives that they pay to sports......

[regnaD kciN]

3. Department of Irrelevancy AND Inconsistency...

"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.

But...but...but I thought Texas Republicans believed that billion-dollar businesses should be free from governmental regulation...

;-)

[Dr.Phool]

4. Gee, you'd think that the Chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee

Would call some hearings on oil company price gouging, CAFE rules, Insurance Company gouging, telephone rates, or about 50,000 other things than BCS rankings.

And I'm a football fan!

[Charlie Brown]

5. why in hell is this an issue for the fed gov't

"College football is not just an exhilarating sport, but a billion-dollar business that Congress cannot ignore."

And if we don't care for football, or would like our representatives to focus on more pressing concerns, that's just too damn bad, eh?

First McCain's crusade on Major League Baseball, and now this. Remember when the government acutally GOVERNED?

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

6. 2006 refrain: "I solved the BCS crisis!"

:wtf:

[Sandpiper]

7. This is just a distraction from Baseball's Steroid Policy

And other important issues.

:sarcasm: