Politics & sports 1

On Monday Night Football just before the presidential election, Chris Berman inerviewed Barak Obama and John McCain. Berman asked both candidates if elected president what would they change about sports. McCain went with the steroids issue while Obama said he would like to see a playoff in college football. We all know that the BCS doesn't produce a clear cut-noncontriversial national champion. A playoff is thought of by the vast majority of fans, coaches, players, sports writers, etc... as the only fair indesputable means of deciding a true national champion. Personally, I don't buy the arguement of Utah. The strength of schedule and conference is weak overall in comparison other top nationally ranked teams. However, by the end of the 2008 season Utah was undefeated and won their bowl game in a convincing fashion agaist an Alabama team that was ranked number 1 for several weeks during the regular season but ultimately lost the SEC championship game to the Florida gators. Utah fans would argue that Utah should be considered the national camps since they were the only unbeaten team through the regular season and at the end of the bowl season. The factors The BCS uses to determine which to goes to which bowl games are the number of fans from certain teams showing up at bowl games and the number of fans that will watch their teams on tv. But really it's about which pairings will be the most profitable. Like many other things it is all about money.Since the BCS' creation in late 1997-98, The BCS has yet to crown a true undisputed national champion. Prior to the BCS the way the natl. champ was crowned was through voting by coaches, associated press and USA Today. That system failed to yield a clear cut - undesputable national champion. In many cases, two teams would share a split decision as national champions. Many people asked..."How can you have two national champions?" Thus the BCS was born. All other major sports decide their champs by incorporating playoffs as their deciding factor to crown a champion. Why not college football? The question loomed so large that a congressman from Texas (I think) is tring to pass a bill that requires the NCAA to instate the use of a playoff in order to decide a national champion. It's getting pretty crazy now! Should politicians have the authority to control how the NCAA names the best team at the end of the day? I don't think so. I'm not going to try to convince you of some crazy conspiracy theory or anything like that. There needs to be a line drawn for those of us who think that we are capable of managing our own lives without the government dictating our every move. I appreciate the idea of someone of a higher authority trying to striaghten out an entity whose innerworkings are obviously around money and that alone. Doesn't the government have a reputation for greed also. I guess one way to look at it could be: What if Jeffrey Dahmer were a juror in a murder trial. What if Ron Jeremy were to do public service announcements about sexual abstinance? what if McDonald's were in charge of the FDA? Whenever OJ Simpson is considered as a paradigm for an amiable, productive American citizen- That too should the time when congress dictates how sports decides anything. The last thing we need is a dollar leading a dollar!!!