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BREAKING: Justice Department opens antitrust inquiry into college bowl process

SnoSki

SnoSki

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Reported by CNN moments ago..
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(CNN) -- In a letter to the NCAA on Wednesday, the Justice Department said it has opened an antitrust inquiry into the current Bowl Championship Series system, which excludes some athletic conferences from the formula for choosing schools to play in major bowl games.
Assistant Attorney General Christine Varney scheduled a meeting with reporters to discuss the move. Millions of dollars in revenue are at stake in the football bowl selection process.
"Serious questions continue to arise suggesting that the current BCS system may not be conducted consistent with the competition principles expressed in federal antitrust laws," Varney told Mark Emmert, president of the NCAA in Indianapolis. ....


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HG73

HG73

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FROGDADDY said:
Now that we're joining a BCS conference let me add that this is crap, none of those conferences deserve to compete with the likes of us.
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Exactly. Who does the Mountain West think they are? The WAC? Please. There is only one team left that is BCS worthy and that is Boise. And they truly have no tradition and no TV market. Too bad.
 
TopFrog

TopFrog

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They must have changed the lede paragraph since you posted. It is softened to say they have asked for information to determine whether an investigation should be opened.

In a letter to the NCAA on Wednesday, the Justice Department's antitrust chief asked for information on the current Bowl Championship Series system, which excludes some athletic conferences from the formula for choosing schools to play in major bowl games.

The NCAA is not required to answer the questions posed by Assistant Attorney General Christine Varney, the Justice Department said. The information she is seeking would be used to help determine whether an antitrust investigation should be opened.
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SnoSki

SnoSki

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TopFrog said:
They must have changed the lede paragraph since you posted. It is softened to say they have asked for information to determine whether an investigation should be opened.
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Interesting.. yeah I just copied and pasted. Seems things are already being changed..

Who needs editors when you can edit on the fly?
 
jake102

jake102

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Only the 6 BCS conferences should be able to play in BCS games. That's why they are BCS conferences and BCS games. They go together.

Put #1 and #2 of the Non-BCS and have them play for Non-BCS Championship in the Cotton Bowl that's actually not at the Cotton Bowl.
 
Kaiser

Kaiser

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kill the BCS. Create a playoff. We'll still be left behind in a national title game against any time with a big name.
 
Army Frog Fan

Army Frog Fan

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wastedmoney.gif
 
satis1103

satis1103

DAOTONPYH EHT LIAH LLA
We have forever feared no one on the field, so this is nothing to the Frogs. As a member of a BCS conference perceived as "weaker" than the others, this still stands to help us.

Settle it on the field like it always should have been I say.
 
JugbandFrog

JugbandFrog

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Jake102 said:
Just don't pay taxes. Then it's not your wasted money.
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Wasted money is state schools losing money when these bowls make a killing. UConn losing all that money was taxpayer money being lost in some way shape or form. The BCS is a sham and it needs to go down and the only people that can do it is the US govt because the school administrators are getting fat off the BCS big wigs.
 
AEAfrog

AEAfrog

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Sounds like the DOJ may have sent them a civil investigative demand. That gives the NCAA a chance to cooperate with the DOJ's investigation rather than going through litigation.
 
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Despite the odds Frog

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In playoffs the current nonAQ teams will still have to share playoff bowl $ and the AQ conferences will still have their big contracts and be seen on TV during peak hours only sharing revenue within their conference.

Playoffs will not make it easier for the current nonAQ to get to the final game it will just cut out bowl games in which the current nonAQ would have recieved some type of $$, extra practices, and reward. Even Gary Patterson believes this and has spoken that a playoff system would not be fair or the answer. I am right with Gary Patterson and believe this is the real truth.
 

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