Friday, December 11, 2009
Congress in College Football
In a story on Espn.com congress is working on bill that would make it illegal to call any game in college football the national championship unless it was the final game of a play off between colleges football teams. Basically this would completely get rid of the idea of the BCS and would force college football to use a playoff system instead of a bowl system. In the article, the BCS executive director is quoted, explaining ""With everything going on in the country, I can't believe that Congress is wasting time and spending taxpayers' money on football,". Now although i am an advocate of college football moving to a playoff system and getting rid of the BCS computer system, I do not think it is something that needs to be resolved by the U.S. government. I think it is amazing that the house is even spending time on this bill when their are so many other, more important problems in the country. For example, the ongoing war in the middle east, growing unemployment, government bailouts, a failing economy just to name a few. It is very disheartening to know that although I may not be able to find a job when I get out of college but I will be able to watch college football in a playoff becuase the congress is wasting its time on trying to govern college sports and not solving our political problems.
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The idea of a National Championship without a playoff system is humorous to me but Congress getting involved in college sports is more so. The best part is the extended talk that has been given to this issue thus far that goes as far as saying that the current BCS system is similar to that of a business monopoly and should be regulated by the government. That is exactly what college sports needs, more regulation from the government. I completely forgot about the recession of 1965 when overvalued, derivative college football teams caused the economy to collapse on itself. Seeing as Goldman Sax apparently runs Wall Street maybe they should hire them to also run college football championships.
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