When you elected your local congressman and representative, did you take into account what their position was on college sports and perhaps what conference school they attended?
I didn’t.
I voted for and hopefully helped to elect representatives to think about running this country in a way that keeps the running of it out of the way of living in it as much as possible.
Texas Republican Joe Barton is pushing through a bill that would get Congress involved in whether or not there should be a college playoff structure to their football season. Ummm, don’t you have FAR more important things to worry about?
Barton’s argument is that college football is a multi-million dollar industry and since they’re tasked with congressional oversight of other large industries, then why wouldn’t they get their hands dirty on the college gridiron?
Here are some quotes from the article:
“With everything going on in the country, I can’t believe that Congress is wasting time and spending taxpayers’ money on football,” Bill Hancock, the BCS executive director, said in a phone interview. “We feel strongly that managing of college sports is best left to the people in higher education.”
and
“We just can’t imagine that the members of Congress will think it’s their job to dictate how college football should be played,” Hancock said.
and from our President
“I’m going to throw my weight around a little bit,” Obama said at the time. “I think it’s the right thing to do.”
I’m very interested in hearing everyone else’s opinions on this matter. I think similar to the steroids issue in baseball, this is not what I want my government worrying about instead of other things. At least not until they’re all sitting in their congressional chambers twiddling their thumbs with nothing else to do.