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JNB
Jan 30, 2010, 05:29 PM
Justice Dept. mulls antitrust probe of college football championships (http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/01/30/obama.college.football/index.html?eref=igoogle_cnn)


jecapaga
Jan 30, 2010, 11:14 PM
I posted something about this in the college football thread. Justice Department loves getting into anti-trust projects. My company just went through one that started during the Bush regime and has finally settled. Loved seeing the suits in the office for 2 years pouring over company email and data. I think eventually there will be a playoff system but not sure of the legal issues on this personally.
killerrobot
Jan 30, 2010, 11:24 PM
Nothing says anti-American like "the current lack of a college football national championship playoff." Better fix that before anything else in this economy.

I love how the senator of the college teams ranked 13 and 23 in the polls brought this before the Obama administration. I'm sure had they been 1 and 2 there would have been no complaints.

As much as I don't like BCS polling system, this is just a ridiculous waste of taxes.
jecapaga
Jan 30, 2010, 11:30 PM
Nothing says anti-American like "the current lack of a college football national championship playoff." Better fix that before anything else in this economy.

I love how the senator of the college teams ranked 13 and 23 in the polls brought this before the Obama administration. I'm sure had they been 1 and 2 there would have been no complaints.

As much as I don't like BCS polling system, this is just a ridiculous waste of taxes.

Agree. Though I could think of many things that are a ridiculous waste of taxes but that would send this thread into the PRSI sooner rather than later probably.

The BCS system should figure this problem out without the government getting involved.
IntheNet
Jan 31, 2010, 06:59 AM
Justice Dept. mulls antitrust probe of college football championships (http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/01/30/obama.college.football/index.html?eref=igoogle_cnn)

While I agree with U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah and his premise that major college football should have an eight-game playoff, I don't think this issue warrants Justice Department attention... college football is fundamentally unfair to smaller schools. Agree also that we have larger problems than this to face as a nation....
ucfgrad93
Feb 1, 2010, 06:15 PM
As much as I don't like BCS polling system, this is just a ridiculous waste of taxes.

Agreed, I hate the BCS but Congress should not be involved in college football.
QuantumLo0p
Feb 1, 2010, 07:31 PM
Agreed, I hate the BCS but Congress should not be involved in college football.

Congress should be involved in as little as possible.
:D
ucfgrad93
Feb 2, 2010, 08:56 AM
Congress should be involved in as little as possible.
:D

Ain't that the truth!:p
rdowns
Feb 2, 2010, 09:02 AM
The Supreme Court will rule on this. Whichever college raises the most through corporate sponsorships is the national champion.
Shivetya
Feb 3, 2010, 05:40 AM
Justice Dept. mulls antitrust probe of college football championships (http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/01/30/obama.college.football/index.html?eref=igoogle_cnn)

Sure, why not. Congress has demonstrated over and over again that they are far more willing to declare others have problems and move to fix them than to acknowledge their problems and fix those.

It is the same method used by dictatorships worldwide, if the people get restless give them a distraction, like the bogeyman overseas or a nice war.
Eraserhead
Feb 3, 2010, 05:59 AM
Because the US government really doesn't have anything better to do :(.

Is this really not an onion post.
Peterkro
Feb 3, 2010, 06:08 AM
It is the same method used by dictatorships worldwide, if the people get restless give them a distraction, like the bogeyman overseas or a nice war.

It's not just dictatorships,your own government is the recognised expert at this.
Eraserhead
Feb 3, 2010, 06:32 AM
It's not just dictatorships,your own government is the recognised expert at this.

The British seem to have done pretty well at it as well.
Shivetya
Feb 3, 2010, 06:34 AM
It's not just dictatorships,your own government is the recognised expert at this.

Please note, I was implying that dictatorships and our Congress are the same thing.
Queso
Feb 3, 2010, 07:04 AM
The British seem to have done pretty well at it as well.
Yes we have. As have most of the so called "democracies" that make up the Western world.
Peterkro
Feb 3, 2010, 07:11 AM
Please note, I was implying that dictatorships and our Congress are the same thing.

In the strict meaning of the word the U.S. is not a dictatorship,if you mean the system of government is such that voters have no way to change anything in a meaningful way then yes you could I suppose refer to a electoral dictatorship.
Zombie Acorn
Feb 3, 2010, 10:31 AM
Because the US government really doesn't have anything better to do :(.

Is this really not an onion post.

This action will probably get the senators who brought it up more votes then anything else.
Gelfin
Feb 3, 2010, 10:32 AM
In the strict meaning of the word the U.S. is not a dictatorship,if you mean the system of government is such that voters have no way to change anything in a meaningful way then yes you could I suppose refer to a electoral dictatorship.

No, a dictatorship is when we elect people he doesn't like, and a democracy is when we elect people he does.
Shivetya
Feb 3, 2010, 10:33 AM
No, a dictatorship is when we elect people he doesn't like, and a democracy is when we elect people he does.

Fail. Then again why should I expect better here.
Gelfin
Feb 3, 2010, 10:39 AM
Fail. Then again why should I expect better here.

Well, considering you get what you give, and you throw around pointless red flag words like "dictatorship" as simple abuse without explaining what you mean by them, you probably shouldn't.
Shivetya
Feb 3, 2010, 10:52 AM
Well, considering you get what you give, and you throw around pointless red flag words like "dictatorship" as simple abuse without explaining what you mean by them, you probably shouldn't.

cry
for
me





I haven't liked a Congress since 98.
Gelfin
Feb 3, 2010, 10:53 AM
I haven't liked a Congress since 98.

So then you're affirming my first conclusion?
leekohler
Feb 3, 2010, 11:08 AM
cry
for
me





I haven't liked a Congress since 98.

Cry for you? The rest of us should get medals of honor for putting up with your garbage.

So then you're affirming my first conclusion?

That much should be obvious by now.
.Andy
Feb 3, 2010, 11:27 AM
Post more Gelfin :)