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CBS Sports: Justice will be hard to find when BCS becomes moving target
By Ray Ratto
CBSSports.com Columnist
The Justice Department wants to break up the BCS, as near as we can tell to get Orrin Hatch off its lawn.
OK, fine. It's comforting to know that this blow against the SEC kicking annual [Craig James] in the championship game is something worthy of the government's attention. Though I would be more comforted if they could actually find the antitrust violations they say exist and rather than say, "You're good to go if you can come up with an eight-team bracket," they would throw the people who run the BCS into prison for a few years.
I mean, if they're breaking the law, giving them a more palatable way to break it seems like a fairly tepid response to the problem.
But let's view this another way, because what the hell, it's not like you've got anything better to do. ...
By Ray Ratto
CBSSports.com Columnist
The Justice Department wants to break up the BCS, as near as we can tell to get Orrin Hatch off its lawn.
OK, fine. It's comforting to know that this blow against the SEC kicking annual [Craig James] in the championship game is something worthy of the government's attention. Though I would be more comforted if they could actually find the antitrust violations they say exist and rather than say, "You're good to go if you can come up with an eight-team bracket," they would throw the people who run the BCS into prison for a few years.
I mean, if they're breaking the law, giving them a more palatable way to break it seems like a fairly tepid response to the problem.
But let's view this another way, because what the hell, it's not like you've got anything better to do. ...