Can you say Anti-Trust?

[Water Pony]

Will Congress Claim a Role? Who picks the winners? Why Wake Forest, and not Tulane? Why Baylor, and not BYU? Interesting.

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[Nacho]

Maybe the good that will come of this is that the BCS gets destroyed and we can start over again on a level playing field. It is clearly a violation of antitrusat law. Even I can see that and I'm not a lawyer. You just have to step on the wrong person's toes to get some action.

[ponyte]

I look for Congress to meddle in this at some time. There are powerful men from not so powerful football states that may want to break up this cartel.

[cowboypony]

Like I suggested in my "Lawsuit" posts the other day, the anti-trust issue is real. Very good article.

[Stallion]

Perhaps we also need to get Laura Bush to "brief" George on the importance of this issue to her dear old alma mater.

[Water Pony]

Good thought, Stallion.

I was a Classmate (1968) of Laura Welch. She got the Mustang Band and Cheerleaders to the 2000 Inauguration.

[In Tate We Trust]

Cool! Call up your old classmate and ask her to drop hints around the White House.

[Charleston Pony]

This thing doesn't seem all that complicated. Basketball is already running the "right way". If this round of restructuring leads to fewer conferences, but all consisting of 12-14 members, the stage is set for every conference champ and several wild cards (all from the most powerful conferences, just like bball) to participate in a 16 school playoff...just like I-AA already does very successfully today.

[davish75]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Charleston Pony:
States that do not have BCS teams:
Alaska N.H NV
Ha. R.I
Utah N.M
Wy. N. Dakota
W. Va. S Dakota
Maine Conn.
Idaho Mt.
Vt. Del.

17 out of 50 states

[Southland]

The Congress and Senate can thump their chest as much as they want, in this country they could never prohibit Miami from improving on a $1.4M athletic loss. Just some schmucks trying to get votes for 2004.

As far as anti-trust goes... the BCS already avoided anti-trust with the inclusion of the Top 6 rule for the non-BCS conferences.

[Stallion]

yeah tell that to Bill Gates and the Rockefellers moron.

[EastStang]

Charleston, if you add 1-AA, II, III to that, you get all 50 states. However, you then get to which colleges have the best lobbies. In Texas would UT, A&M, TT, and Baylor make more noise than UNT, TCU, SMU, UH, Rice, SWTS, SHS, etc. In La. would LSU make more noise, than La. Tech, Laf., Mon., Tulane. You get my drift.