They Want A Bcs Probe...

[LongJim]

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[UNTflyer]

"Who elected these NCAA people? Who are they to decide who competes for the championship?" Abercrombie said at a press conference Thursday on Capitol Hill, gripping a souvenir University of Hawaii football.

Abercrombie said the matter is worthy of federal review because college football is big business with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake.

Follow the money. What next, a regulatory tax on college football tickets? These bozos have better things to do, like opening up our own oil reserves for exploration so we can get gas back down to a buck and some change.

[meangreendork]

Follow the money. What next, a regulatory tax on college football tickets? These bozos have better things to do, like opening up our own oil reserves for exploration so we can get gas back down to a buck and some change.

Yeah, I think money is better spent elsewhere, though I have to admit, the BCS is a bunch of crap.

[e-bone ver2.awesome]

If Congress is going to spend it's time on sports issues, this is the one I don't mind. If corporations can be forced to split or change due to monopoly and so on, might as well do something about the BCS monopoly.

[MeanMag]

Follow the money. What next, a regulatory tax on college football tickets? These bozos have better things to do, like opening up our own oil reserves for exploration so we can get gas back down to a buck and some change.

Actually if we were to open our oil fields it wouldn't be profitable at a buck and some change. It costs a lot of money to drill here in the US, unless you of course would like to go drill for minimum wage... but then you couldn't afford the gas to put in your own car.

[Guest 97and03]

Someone said 'probe' and Quoner's butt started itching...

I could have sworn there is a pending economic crisis, underfunded schools, immigration issues, and two wars going on. We really need Congress investigating sports issues?

I guess being a Congressman isn't too taxing of a job. Where do I sign up? I am certainly qualified for the job. I sit at work and discuss irrelevant BS on GMG all day. Next step should be Capitol Hill, n'est pas?

[SilverEagle]

Someone said 'probe' and Quoner's butt started itching...

I just love Southpark references.

Cartman (Quoner): Okay, you guys, this joke has gone far enough! There were no aliens! They didn't give me an anal probe and they can't control my mind!

Or, was this a "Nina" reference from "Passion Fish".....

Nina pauses dramatically)

"I didn't ask for the anal probe."

(pauses again)

"I didn't ask for the anal probe!"

(Pauses again, makes an angry face)

"I didn't ask for the anal probe!"

(Pauses, looks sad)

"I didn't ask for the anal probe."

(She breaks character.)

That was it.

Personally, I would like to see the BCS AND CONGRESS get an anal probe......the BCS first however.

Edited April 18, 2008 by SilverEagle

[forevereagle]

Personally, I would like to see the BCS AND CONGRESS get an anal probe......the BCS first however.

Careful, you may not like what you find...

[Arkstfan]

I feel so much better knowing that the economy, the energy situation, and the war in Iraq are now sufficiently well managed so that Congress can deal with the real issues of the day.

The current BCS system is a gift to schools outside of the six rich leagues. Those games never invited the Hawaii, Boise, Utah type schools before the BCS. The BCS has actually increased access to those games.

If they really want to do something about the insanity in intercollegiate athletics the answer is sitting over in the tax code.

If a conference generates in excess of say $50 million declare it to be a taxable entity that has to pay income tax on its entire revenue.

If a college athletic department has revenue of $45 million or more declare that donations are entirely not taxable nor are any advertising or sponsorship agreements.

If a college athletic department has revenue of $30 million to $45 million reduce the deductibility of donations, advertising and sponsorship to 50%.

Use the revenue from the tax collections for something important like increasing Pell Grants and low cost student loans.

Maybe it won't fix the problems but it is criminal that a donation to Texas Longhorn football is considered a "charitable" donation when that athletic department is so flush with cash that they can't figure out anything better to do with the money than building a video screen the size of an airport runway and they are putting internet workstations at every locker in the football complex.

[GoMeanGreen1999]

If Congress is going to spend it's time on sports issues, this is the one I don't mind. If corporations can be forced to split or change due to monopoly and so on, might as well do something about the BCS monopoly.

There is a much bigger monopoly going on right now in our country than the BCS - so if they are not willing to do anything about that, they for sure are not going to do anything about the BCS.

[SCREAMING EAGLE-66]

Follow the money. What next, a regulatory tax on college football tickets? These bozos have better things to do, like opening up our own oil reserves for exploration so we can get gas back down to a buck and some change.

---Think about what you just said.... If we drill in our domestic oil fields (there is a limited supply of oil) and use every bit of it up.. (we could in 50-100 years) then what do we do*.?? The Middle East and other foreign countries would then have an absolute monoply on oil and we would be in one hell of a fix. You don't want to think what they would charge when we had no other options. I live in West Texas where we now have to drill 1000's of feet deep to maybe find it and then have to pump it up.. It is terribly expensive to do (millions to drill each well). Middle Eastern oil is usually not so deep and it does not have to be pumped either (remember those Kuwait fires after the Gulf War) it just flows to the surface. Production of that oil is very cheap compared to ours. Cheap American oil is now all used up... Obviously you are not in or near people in the oil bidness.

---I do agree that Congress can spend its time on more pressing issues that college football... the war in Afganistan and also Iraq (that one I think was a stupid idea.. where are those WMD that he KNEW existed) and the economy-- for example. What makes anyone think Congress would improve the situation in college athletics if they became involved.

* I won't be alive but my grandkids should be.

If the above post are thinking oil is a monopoly..... there is a lot of oil stock for sale on Wall Street, buy some and be part of that monopoly, I know I do. There was once a "Windfall Profit Tax" that applied to old oil wells (that is where the obscene profits are, not new wells or current supplies) but it has been repealed..... and we have group of politicans that constantly promise no new taxes (even to cooporations). ...... and our schools get worse and tuition climbs at colleges. You get what you pay for. ..enjoy

Edited April 18, 2008 by SCREAMING EAGLE-66

[GoMeanGreen1999]

(that one I think was a stupid idea.. where are those WMD that he KNEW existed)

They never found them?