re: The BCS

They should play better competition. Teams like Boise St. and Utah should make a push to get into the PAC 10. Furthermore, ND should be forced to enter the Big 10(11).

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Everything he's stating is true. It does places other Div 1 schools at a disadvantage b/c smaller schools have absolutely no shot at a championship in Div 1 football.

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If any team in the country played and beat the schedule that Florida or Nebraska or Georgia played last year, that team would have been in the National Championship Game. Period. Utah did not make it because they did not deserve it. Their 13 game schedule did not measure up to the 13 game schedule of Florida and Oklahoma. And responses that cite any sample less than the entire schedules of the three teams involved is a blatant admission that this is true.

Utah, Boise State, etc., all want to take credit for facing similar schedules because they beat OU, or Bama, or UCLA. The fact is that until they beat a schedule that is 2/3 to 3/4 teams like that, and only 1/3 to 1/4 teams like Utah State, New Mexico, Louisiana Tech, San Jose State and Idaho, they are laying claim to credit they simply do not deserve. Winning one or two games against top level competition does not make for a championship-worthy season (at least not since the polls were dethroned as the mindless arbiters of such things -- cf., 1984). There is a difference between the level of competition in those conferences and the level of competition in conferences like the SEC and the Big XII. And anyone who insists that the same system that shut out undefeated SEC Champion Auburn has its unfairness targeted at "the little guys" is simply not making a rational argument.

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Everything he's stating is true. It does places other Div 1 schools at a disadvantage b/c smaller schools have absolutely no shot at a championship in Div 1 football. However, the gov't should stay out of it though.

The reason why the gov't is sticking their hands in it is b/c of money. The smaller schools are complaining b/c they are not given the same opportunity to win championships and to earn the big money as larger schools are given

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Then where were they before the BCS was created? You know, back when they had ZERO chance to even play in the Fiesta, Rose, Orange, or Sugar Bowls much less play for a national championship? This system is much better for them than the old days, and if they want to complain about it enough the BCS leagues should just say f*ck it and let it go back to the old way of conference tie ins and the Bowls deciding their own matchup. The BCS schools would survive, teams like Utah and Boise wouldn't because nobody gives a shite about them.