OT: “We Want a Playoff Now” campaign launching

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December 15th, 2011 at 11:18 PM
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OT: “We Want a Playoff Now” campaign launching

    Looks like folks in Congress want a playoff instead of the current BCS arrangement.  

 

The “We Want a Playoff Now” campaign was introduced Thursday on Capitol Hill. It includes the lobbying firm The Moffett Group, headed up by former Rep. Toby Moffett, D-Conn., and the communications firm, New Partners. Along with that effort, two congressmen are forming the Congressional Collegiate Sports Caucus. The congressmen, Texas Republican Joe Barton and Tennessee Democrat Steve Cohen, are reintroducing Barton’s 2009 bill aimed at forcing college football to switch to a playoff system. The longshot bill would ban — as unfair and deceptive — the promotion of a postseason NCAA Division I football game as a national championship unless it’s the outcome of a playoff.

 

Here's the money quote hurr hurr hurr:

...decisions about college sports are best left to those in higher education, not politicians.

I imagine that's getting pretty loose with the truthiness, eh?  I don't think anyone would argue that school administrators (i.e. "those in higher education") are making the decisions.  No, that'd be the dudes in the yellow blazers.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/congress/college-football-playoff-supporters-launch-national-campaign-congressmen-reintroduce-bill/2011/12/15/gIQAJ6TSwO_story.html

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December 15th, 2011 at 11:23 PM | No offense, but Congress (Score:1 Normal)
ChillChet
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EDIT: Nevermind... TOO MUCH POLITIKZ for everyone. 

What you see is the hard work he's put in. It's nature. It just all comes together.

-Craig James

December 15th, 2011 at 11:28 PM | May I ask why the quote in (Score:1)
State Street
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May I ask why the quote in your sig is one from...Craig James?

December 15th, 2011 at 11:41 PM | because it's dumb? (Score:2 Normal)
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just a guess.

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December 16th, 2011 at 12:42 AM | I'm going to say... (Score:0 Trolling)
December 16th, 2011 at 1:42 PM | Goddamn f-ing idiots. (Score:2 Normal)
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Any congressperson of any party that even spends 2 seconds working on a playoff system for football games when we have the REAL problems we have should be summarily disbarred, tarred and feathered and shipped out of town in the trunk of a car.

"Everyone gets dumped Gabe. Let me give you some advice: a little coverup on your Adams Apple will make it appear smaller. Which will make you appear less like a transvestite." 

December 15th, 2011 at 11:27 PM | Craig James now has his (Score:5 Normal)
Wolverine MD
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Craig James now has his platform.

December 15th, 2011 at 11:48 PM | playoff? (Score:3 Normal)
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A hooker killing playoff amount congressmen?  I'm not sure that will fly.

"A flute with no holes is not a flute. A donut with no hole is a danish"

December 15th, 2011 at 11:50 PM | Craig James' New Agenda 1) (Score:5 Normal)
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Craig James' New Agenda

1) Legalize hookers

2) Legalize killing of said hookers

3) NCAA Playoff system

"I find your lack of faith disturbing... This is Michigan fergodsakes"

December 16th, 2011 at 12:37 AM | Speaking of Craig James... (Score:1)
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I googled "Craig James SMU," without the quotes, and an article called "The Truth About Craig James and those Hookers" was in the number four position.  Here's the link:

http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/extremeleisure/cupcheck/2011/12/truth-about-Craig-James-and-those-hookers/

I would imagine that if more people were curious about the rumor that Craig James killed five hookers while at SMU, it could derail his bid for office.  

 

 

 

December 15th, 2011 at 11:39 PM | This is all a grand conspiracy (Score:1)
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to divert attention from all the other problems facing America!

/conspiracytheories

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December 15th, 2011 at 11:42 PM | pretty close (Score:1)
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just replace "other problems facing America!" with "things Congress is doing"

/tootrueforthisblog

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December 15th, 2011 at 11:40 PM | "I want (Score:5 Normal)
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an Oompa Loompa now!" shrieked the spoiled child...

December 15th, 2011 at 11:45 PM | posted from iPhone (Score:2)
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USING GRATUITOUS AMOUNTS OF CAPS LOCK SINCE APRIL 2011

December 15th, 2011 at 11:50 PM | WTF. Don't those assholes (Score:1 Normal)
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WTF.

Don't those assholes have real work to do?  

Like, say, fixing our shitty economy?

(Lest I be accused of politicking, I'm calling them all assholes....  Rs and Ds.)

 

CJK5H

December 16th, 2011 at 12:22 AM | With the hundreds of millions (Score:5 Normal)
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With the hundreds of millions of dollars bowl game middle men and hangers on are siphoning away from institutions there actually is some merit to ending the current system.

December 16th, 2011 at 12:44 AM | I logged in just to +1 you.  (Score:2)
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I logged in just to +1 you.  A lot of people fail to see the economic side of CFB when casting this notion that congress has better things to do.  Most of these institutions are public, and their financials are impacted by athletics.  Bowls raise hundreds of millions of dollars each year.  Many* schools PAY money to attend.  This does not correlate.  Hundreds of millions of dollars ain't small potatoes.

People apparently don't watch enough C-SPAN to realize that congress is not always fighting for civil liberties and the American way.  There are bigger wastes of time than the NCAA, some of which they tackle as well.

As for the pros, you can argue that they are not tied as closely to the feds.  However, the NFL is still bigger than many identities that congress deals with, even if only looking at them from an economic standpoint and excluding the public exposure.  Sports is sports, which is why many think it a silly waste of time.  Most disregard the fact that sports make a LOT of money, which dictates the attention from congress. 

Even if you go the steroids route... congress is not wasting money to fry a couple of millionaires over butt pokes.  They are spending that money to make a statement: to kids, to other athletes, and to the populace in general. 

Sports are not life and death, they are recreation.  This is why many see congress as meddling with some pointless obsession.  This is a big misconception that is shared by many people, incorrect as it may be.

 

*Free Press tactics at their finest.  I'm lazy, so care to wager on what defines many?

Hail.

December 16th, 2011 at 2:00 PM | Huh? (Score:1)
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So Congress wastes some time on smaller issues, not just the American Way and Civil liberties, so it's ok to spend time on Football, which is in fact, a recreational acitivity? Why, because it makes lots of money? Why does money "dictate" the attention of Congress? Your argument is nonsense--following it means that Congress should be paying attention to every activity that generates more than a little money.

Let's put this in perspective: who exactly is harmed here? The schools you say "pay" to participate? They are DYING to participate. Schools make money from the system that exists right now. Other sports get paid for by football that wouldn't exist without it. So Congress should get involved with establishing a playoff system because?  Because they disagree with how schools are spending their money? Because Congress thinks it knows better how schools should establish their football champion? 

I mean, come on man....

"Everyone gets dumped Gabe. Let me give you some advice: a little coverup on your Adams Apple will make it appear smaller. Which will make you appear less like a transvestite." 

December 16th, 2011 at 1:46 PM | Come on. (Score:1)
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Big schools mare making WAY more fro the system than is "siphoned" away. Do you really think if they could make even more from a playoff that they wouldn't support it? They are HAPPY with the money they are making now--that's why the President's don't care about a playoff.

"Everyone gets dumped Gabe. Let me give you some advice: a little coverup on your Adams Apple will make it appear smaller. Which will make you appear less like a transvestite." 

December 15th, 2011 at 11:51 PM | The current BCS system should be replaced with (Score:5 Normal)
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the old system of locked-in matchups with conference tie-ins for all the major bowls.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with a system which leaves fans arguing, after the end of the bowl season, about which team was "best", including those which never had a chance to meet face-to-face.

Gol durned whipper-snappers claiming we need a playoff system that results in an undisputed "national champion" in football have no sense of history, no sense of persepective, no sense of what makes college football the best sport in the US for fans.

Back before the PTB ****ed up everthing by initiating the BCS, there were fans of a dozen or so teams happy their team won their conference, fans of another two dozen happy they won thier bowl game, and fans of about 10 happy they won a bowl of reasonable prestige, and 5 who won a major bowl (Rose, Cotton, Sugar, Orange, Fiesta).  In more years than not, at least two teams, and sometimes three or even four, had a reasonably plausible argument that theirs was the best team in the country with a claim to the mythical national championship.  It is not a bad thing, but a good thing, that Michigan and Nebraska fans can argue into perpetuity who had the best team in 1997! (Michigan, obviously)

Why anybody wanted to **** with that remains a mystery to me, and why anybody, let alone Congress, would think it a good ideal to **** that up even more boggles the mind. As great as the NCAA basketball tournament is, it doesn't produce a "national champion"; it has a tournament winner. The winner of the tournament has not been the best team in basketeball in more years than not. Football is even less amenable to such a process.

 

 

 

December 16th, 2011 at 12:10 AM | Best post ever? (Score:3 Normal)
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Best post ever.

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December 16th, 2011 at 12:20 AM | Nice debut post. That'll be (Score:3 Normal)
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Nice debut post. That'll be a tough one to top.

 

 

December 16th, 2011 at 10:05 AM | Thank You (Score:2)
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I thought I ws the only one.

Whatcha gonna do, little brother?

December 15th, 2011 at 11:54 PM | Anybody in Congress (Score:5 Normal)
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Anybody in Congress that's debating sports on Capital Hill can go f*** themselves. 

December 15th, 2011 at 11:56 PM | Exactly.  Just like MGoBlog (Score:2 Normal)
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Exactly.  Just like MGoBlog has a no politics rule, Congress should have a no sports rule. 

 

CJK5H

December 16th, 2011 at 12:04 AM | Let's leave Mike and Mike in (Score:2)
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Let's leave Mike and Mike in the morning to Mike and Mike in the morning.   Talk education.

December 16th, 2011 at 1:22 AM | The way Congress is working (Score:4 Funny)
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The way Congress is working lately, they might also consider a no politics rule.

December 15th, 2011 at 11:57 PM | Since we can now put American (Score:1)
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Since we can now put American citizens in prison indefinitely without trial for suspected terrorism; I suggest arresting all the Bowl People for terrorizing college football and don't let them out until we have a playoff system.  

December 15th, 2011 at 11:59 PM | Or we could start a Facebook (Score:1)
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Or we could start a Facebook group!  

December 16th, 2011 at 12:20 AM | I'm not sure this will amount (Score:1)
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I'm not sure this will amount to anything but depending on who wins the BCS NCG and how the AP votes are tallied if there's another split NC then I can see this getting some attention.

Remember Who You Are!

December 16th, 2011 at 12:25 AM | Yes...Congress is exactly the (Score:1)
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Yes...Congress is exactly the group I want working on a playoff....Yes Sir....

December 16th, 2011 at 12:30 AM | How is this not the business of Congress? (Score:5 Insightful)
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Everybody keeps missing the point. A playoff equals money. By conservative estimates 3 to 4 times more then the current system on an annual basis.  (Also, way way more than the old bowl system everyone keeps saying we should go back too.) These politicians represent taxpayers who foot the bill for red ink bleeding athletic departments at state schools all over the country.  This is every bit the business of the politicians. 

The question they are asking on behalf of their states are: Why are we allowing the perpetuation of a system that unfairly favors the few at the expense of everyone else,  when there is an obvious better system that would favor all?

Contractural monopolies built on greed that harm large swaths of the people they represent, are what these guys are there to guard against.

"because character wins in life and character wins on the football field....."  1-11-11

December 16th, 2011 at 1:02 AM | I just want the (Score:0 Overrated)
December 16th, 2011 at 2:32 AM | Congress needs to tread water (Score:2)
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Congress needs to tread water and make headlines every now and then too. I'd like to think that government intervention based on the waste of taxpayer dollars could make a difference but the political will is just not there. I don't see this getting anywhere.

Abort, Retry, Fail?

December 16th, 2011 at 8:40 AM | Do what you say, (Score:0)
December 16th, 2011 at 10:38 AM | Why is this anyone's business? (Score:1)
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The NCAA (which is made up of all of the schools) opts into the BCS Bowl system and they negotiated "guaranteed" ticket sales, and hotel packages.

While, I think the BCS is a completely useless ripoff, the NCAA wasn't and isn't forced into the system, they want it.

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December 16th, 2011 at 10:59 AM | Playoffs (Score:0)
December 16th, 2011 at 12:29 PM | Legalize! (Score:2)
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Legalize!

HAIL.

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