FrankRep
07-14-2009, 02:23 PM
Possible Investigation of College Bowl Games (http://www.jbs.org/jbs-news-feed/5101)
Ann Shibler | John Birch Society (http://www.jbs.org/)
14 July 2009
Having the Justice Department investigate college football’s championship bowl series is indicative of a government out of control; a government out of touch with the Constitution and its intent and purpose, and politicians steeped in pure socialism. But that’s what is happening as the Justice Department has been urged to take up the cause of college football bowl game equality, at the behest of Senator Orrin Hatch.
Going far beyond egalitarianism and grandstanding, Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) actually conducted a hearing of a Senate subcommittee on July 7 to look into college football’s Bowl Chamionship Series’ (BCS) practices being anticompetitive in nature and thereby violating government antitrust laws (http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/sports/uga/stories/2009/07/08/bcs_hatch_investigation.html).
Hatch’s personal pet peeve, spurred by a lawyer for a western college athletic conference, centers around the automatic bid process wherein some conference teams are automatically chosen for bowl games, while others are not. Smaller schools are often overlooked, regardless of their record, particularly those in the Mountain West Conference — Hatch’s home territory. Larger schools, who consistently bring in more revenue and cash — something Hatch certainly understands — are regular invitees to the bowl games.
“Frankly, there’s an arrogance about the BCS that just drives me nuts,” Hatch told reporters. He views the BCS’ policy decisions as exploitations of power “and it’s just not right,” he added.
Harvey Perlman, chairman of the BCS Presidential Oversight Committee, responded: “I don’t think it’s arrogant if you’ve thought about something for five or six years, and concluded that’s it’s really hard to do something different.” He went on to say:
We are university presidents, and we are sensitive to what Congress thinks, and sensitive about what the president thinks. But our primary responsibility is to manage our institutions in ways that protect student athletes, that acknowledges their academic pursuits as well as their athletic pursuits.
The BCS is managed by a group of commissioners from all 11 NCAA Division 1-A conferences, the director of athletics at Notre Dame, and representatives of bowl organizations, so it is mix of public and private entities. Why they feel it’s necessary to be “sensitive” to what Congress or any president thinks is incredible.
Could it be that the long arm of the current congress’ socialistic mentality is reaching out to gain control of another money-making American institution — college football? And if not, can someone so obsessed with the intracies of sports management — Hatch has a history of dabbling in sports legislation — be a true representative of the people and their wishes? Apparently Hatch has nothing better to do than to entertain himself, in imitation of the Emperor Nero, fiddling while Rome burned.
Our economic future has been hijacked, the Constitution with it, our freedoms slipping away by the minute as we watch the encroaching plan of the global elitists, the New World Order, gobble us up, and Hatch has been a culpable part of it every sickening step of the way, something easily ascertained by checking his voting record.
Any congressman who devotes taxpayer money and time and energy to such an issue that, in a more constitutionally-respected time, would have seen him tarred and feathered and run out of town on a rail, needs his head examined — right after the voters replace him in office with someone else.
Who’s arrogant, Senator Hatch? And who’s definition of “right” is right? All this would be moot if we but return to the Constitution and its limitations.
SOURCE:
http://www.jbs.org/jbs-news-feed/5101
Ann Shibler | John Birch Society (http://www.jbs.org/)
14 July 2009
Having the Justice Department investigate college football’s championship bowl series is indicative of a government out of control; a government out of touch with the Constitution and its intent and purpose, and politicians steeped in pure socialism. But that’s what is happening as the Justice Department has been urged to take up the cause of college football bowl game equality, at the behest of Senator Orrin Hatch.
Going far beyond egalitarianism and grandstanding, Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) actually conducted a hearing of a Senate subcommittee on July 7 to look into college football’s Bowl Chamionship Series’ (BCS) practices being anticompetitive in nature and thereby violating government antitrust laws (http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/sports/uga/stories/2009/07/08/bcs_hatch_investigation.html).
Hatch’s personal pet peeve, spurred by a lawyer for a western college athletic conference, centers around the automatic bid process wherein some conference teams are automatically chosen for bowl games, while others are not. Smaller schools are often overlooked, regardless of their record, particularly those in the Mountain West Conference — Hatch’s home territory. Larger schools, who consistently bring in more revenue and cash — something Hatch certainly understands — are regular invitees to the bowl games.
“Frankly, there’s an arrogance about the BCS that just drives me nuts,” Hatch told reporters. He views the BCS’ policy decisions as exploitations of power “and it’s just not right,” he added.
Harvey Perlman, chairman of the BCS Presidential Oversight Committee, responded: “I don’t think it’s arrogant if you’ve thought about something for five or six years, and concluded that’s it’s really hard to do something different.” He went on to say:
We are university presidents, and we are sensitive to what Congress thinks, and sensitive about what the president thinks. But our primary responsibility is to manage our institutions in ways that protect student athletes, that acknowledges their academic pursuits as well as their athletic pursuits.
The BCS is managed by a group of commissioners from all 11 NCAA Division 1-A conferences, the director of athletics at Notre Dame, and representatives of bowl organizations, so it is mix of public and private entities. Why they feel it’s necessary to be “sensitive” to what Congress or any president thinks is incredible.
Could it be that the long arm of the current congress’ socialistic mentality is reaching out to gain control of another money-making American institution — college football? And if not, can someone so obsessed with the intracies of sports management — Hatch has a history of dabbling in sports legislation — be a true representative of the people and their wishes? Apparently Hatch has nothing better to do than to entertain himself, in imitation of the Emperor Nero, fiddling while Rome burned.
Our economic future has been hijacked, the Constitution with it, our freedoms slipping away by the minute as we watch the encroaching plan of the global elitists, the New World Order, gobble us up, and Hatch has been a culpable part of it every sickening step of the way, something easily ascertained by checking his voting record.
Any congressman who devotes taxpayer money and time and energy to such an issue that, in a more constitutionally-respected time, would have seen him tarred and feathered and run out of town on a rail, needs his head examined — right after the voters replace him in office with someone else.
Who’s arrogant, Senator Hatch? And who’s definition of “right” is right? All this would be moot if we but return to the Constitution and its limitations.
SOURCE:
http://www.jbs.org/jbs-news-feed/5101