Posted
12/09/2009 09:54:00 PM
by Douglas
I'm not so concerned with congress taking
this on because they should be doing more important things. It bothers me because they have absolutely
zero authority to tell anyone how a national champion is determined in college football.
Dismissing complaints from some members that Congress had more pressing matters, a House subcommittee approved legislation Wednesday aimed at forcing college football to switch to a playoff system to determine its national champion.
"We can walk across the street and chew gum at the same time," said the subcommittee chairman, Illinois Democrat Bobby Rush, one of the bill's co-sponsors. "We can do a number of things at the same time."
The legislation, which still faces steep odds, would ban the promotion of a postseason NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision game as a national championship unless it results from a playoff. The measure passed by voice vote in the House Energy and Commerce Committee's commerce, trade and consumer protection subcommittee, with one audible "no," from Rep. John Barrow, D-Ga.
Sure the
BCS is messed up, but if you want to really screw it up, let congress "fix" it. The same idiots that gave Bush a blank check in Iraq, the PATRIOT ACT, income tax and prohibition (just to name a few) could do
wonders in college football. Idiots.