rivals.yahoo.com - 7/6/2009
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If it's not abundantly clear by now, we are getting what you might call Sick To Death of the Congressional battle for the BCS, the latest iteration of which will apparently involve the invocation of the freaking Antitrust Act . (We do have to hand it to Orrin Hatch for sheer audacity, though: ...
vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com - 7/3/2009
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vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com —
Complaints about the college football Bowl Championship Series
are nothing new. Indeed, it seems every year an...
obviously deserving team is left out of the BCS due to its arcane and, to put it bluntly, biased nature. Leaders in Washington are catching ...
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The case for congressional hearings into the BCS - ...
teamspeedkills.com - 7/8/2009
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teamspeedkills.com —
You can watch today's Senate BCS hearing online
(skip ahead to about the 17 minute mark), but...
it's mostly just five people treading old ground. Anyway, it was far less of a waste of time than the House hearing earlier this year because it wasn't ...
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A Recap of the Senate BCS Hearing
teamspeedkills.com - 7/8/2009
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teamspeedkills.com —
The BCS is going to get vilified in
Congress again today, but the folks in charge of...
it don't want change. There's a litany of reasons why they want to keep the current system, but today I'm going to focus on the economic reason. It's partly ...
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The Economics of Why the BCS Doesn't Want Change
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EAST CAROLINA PIRATES: FEARLESS AND PROTECTING OUR INTERESTS OVERSEAS
EDSBS —
... , the standard-bearers for a conference peskily pushing for insanities like playoffs, and more open competition, and all that commie nonsense. (Which, if they don’t like, well, they can just leave, what with the BCS being voluntary and everything.) ...
BCS Hearings Are Upon Us
Mountain West Connection —
... all the way back to the day after that Utah smoked Alabama in the Sugar Bowl, with Mountain West Commissioner Craig Thompson proposing a playoff, Utah Senator Orrin Hatch threatening anti-trust.
Then there is Air Force’s Troy Calhoun calling the BCS the old Soviet Union, Utah Attorney Genral Mark Shurtleff pretending to care about the BCS, and then most recently an interview with Harvey Perlman who threatens to turn around this car.
The hearings begin ...
Conquest Chronicles Links for July 7th
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Scout.com: 7/7 Roundtable - The 5th BCS Game Will Be ... CFN looks at expanding the BCS bowl game slate
Orrin Hatch, Senate wasting taxpayer time, money with BCS hearing - Stewart Mandel - SI.com Yeap...
College football still haunted by BCS, unfair title system - NCAA Football - CBSSports.com The BCS either will change or it will be done for them, Spencer Tillman says...Really?
CFR - Unreal
The BCS has had just about enough of your cheek, whippersnappers - Dr. Saturday ...
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blogs.ajc.com 7/7/2009 —
Today at 2:30 p.m. a Senate Judiciary subcommittee will hold a hearing entitled: “The Bowl Championship Series: Is it Fair and in Compliance with Antitrust Law?”
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rivals.yahoo.com 7/3/2009 —
BCS apologists -- and sometimes critics, or mere observers -- like to point out that, whatever its flaws, at least the Series is obviously better than the mishmash of split champions and frustrating conference tie-ins that preceded it. So heinous ...
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mwcfootball.wordpress.com 7/9/2009 — No more promise are to be made of this being the ‘last’ or ‘next to last’ article on the BCS. There is just too much content to ignore the issue. Now I could just write a huge piece filled with thousands of words about the hearings.
This BCS talk has some legs still ...
TWTWCFB: The BCS Hearings
spartyandfriends.com 7/9/2009 — “The Bowl Championship Series: Is It Fair And In Compliance With Antitrust Law?” was the Senate Committee’s title for rehashing the same freaking arguments we’ve heard since 1997.
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THE BCS KILLS PUPPIES!
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Perlman Admits BCS Unfair, But the BCS Ain't Going Away On It's Own
cornnation.com 7/13/2009 — Nebraska-Lincoln Chancellor Harvey Perlman was sent to Washington as the sacrificial lamb for Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Utah's push to rectify the woes of the BCS. Perlman made it clear that the BCS is here to stay for the forseable ...
The BCS sure won't fix itself, so Congress has to step in
deseretnews.com 7/5/2009 — This week Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) will either trigger a meaningful debate on the legality of how our college football system works, or he'll be castigated as a grandstanding gasbag crying foul because a team from his state didn't play for a national ...
Breaking Down the Facts of the BCS
mwcfootball.wordpress.com 7/9/2009 — This is similar to the write up with Harve Perlman , but this time it is with Atlanta Journal Constitution writer Tony Barnhart . Now before we get into Barnhart’s credentials — which will be exposed — lets get into mine and show where I am coming from.
First off this is a ...
BCS Threatens Us With the Old System
mwcfootball.wordpress.com 7/3/2009 — Found an interview with Harvey Perlman who is the new chairman in the BCS Presidential Oversight Committee University of Nebraska-Lincoln. This interview is chalk full of amazing answers, so I will interject my own commentary within Perlman’s answers and you have been warned this ...
Will the WAC and Mountain West Say No to the BCS?
thewizofodds.com 7/9/2009 — We're about to find out how serious the Western Athletic and Mountain West conferences are in bringing about change to the Bowl Championship Series. Utah Senator Orrin Hatch held a hearing Tuesday into possible antitrust violations by the BCS, ...
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Bleacher Report - College Football 7/6/2009
Following the 2003 fiasco when LSU and USC shared the National Title, the BCS conducted a major overhaul of its ranking formula. Ultimately their new formula was of sleak design and removed much of the double counting of losses and strength of ...
BCS Hearings Are Upon Us —
Bleacher Report - College Football 7/7/2009
So, it looks like there will be at least one more post, besides this, regarding the BCS and congress getting involved with allegations that BCS is violating antitrust laws.
The congressional hearings are where we stand as this six month parade ...
