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Barton v. Ari: Congress Attempts to Take the "Championship" Out of the BCS
From today's Wall Street Journal comes news that "House lawmakers are gearing up for a vote as soon as next week on a bill aimed at forcing a national college-football playoff." According to the article, "The House legislation...wouldn't specifically bar the title game, but would bar marketing of the BCS game as a national championship game." How great would that be? The BCS and all of their corporate cronies suddenly would be without a platform to stand on. Without the option of using his label, Ari and his boys would have to crank up the spin machine and churn out something extra special to label their failed B*S experiment.
We at CFP are proud to be somehow associated with all of this talk about the upcoming legislation. Sen. Hatch, who, as the article notes, held BCS hearings earlier this year, also agreed to give us an interview earlier this year; Rep. Barton, the co-sponsor of this most recent legislation, very recently gave us a great interview; and Sean Brown, our very own site member, was quoted in the article as saying, "The more [Rep. Barton] dug into it – the more he realized the BCS is a moneymaking cartel." Preach on Sean!
And to rebut Sean's statement was no less than Ari Fleischer (aka "I've made a living out of scaring the shit out of people," or "the most despicable flack in the history of flackery," according to our friends at The Big Lead), who apparently has only been fed with last year's talking points: he stated that the reality of the BCS is "just the opposite," and further stated that "[t]here is more money to be made if we had a playoff, but the price would be a diminished regular season and the end of the bowls as we know them." The end of the bowls, the end of college football, the end of the world, right Ari?
Tags: ari, barton, bcs, brown, college, fleischer, football, legislation, playoff, rep
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Comment by Jim "Stahu" Stack on December 7, 2009 at 7:43am -
Unlike Pearl Harbor - this is not a "sneak attack" on the BCS - they were warned!
The sixth College Football Championship Series, "CFCS-VI", title game for the "2009" NCAA Division 1-A (FBS) "playoff season" and susequent "Invitational" will be played in the Fiesta Bowl on Saturday night, Jan. 10, 2010. - Out of "25 eligible and qualified teams" the following "16" were invited to participate in "CFCS VI". - Succeeding the "first round" of play, the line-up for the "second round" by location is:
CAPITAL ONE BOWL
Ohio State vs Central Michigan
(winner vs winner of)
Cincinnati vs Georgia Tech
COTTON BOWL
Texas vs Florida
(winner vs winner of)
Alabama vs Houston
SUN BOWL
TCU vs Troy
(winner vs winner of)
Iowa vs BYU
HOLIDAY BOWL
Boise St. vs Virginia Tech
(winner vs winner of)
Penn St vs Oregon
A fantasy? - Of course it is! - However, also one that is based upon the facts and the reality of a "2009" college football season. It's both a practical and logical "fantasy" which is completely "do-able" for future seasons. - How do I know?- Because I've been running the computer program on this for the past six seasons; also, because I wrote the book - you know - Prelude to The Playoff - the one anyone having anything to do with the BCS doesn't want you reading. - A timely read (possibly a great Christmas present), especially with the "BCS pot" again boiling over; with pending "congressional hearings" to deny the BCS from advertising its product as a "national championship"; and, with their "non-bowl participating" charter member's recent "boiling" of its own head coach.
But, before all of the arguing starts - and all of the "how and why the Hell did he pick that team", I urge you to first visit my website - www.ultimatetweaker.com - for some of those answers. - I certainly don't consider effort put forth and money spent by me over the past six seasons as having been wasted. Read what's there - you won't be disappointed!
Merry Christmas to all - "Stahu"
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