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Don't you bozos have anything better to do??..the economy is in the toilet and this is the best you can do??..what are you going to do,make the universities buy chrysler or government motors products or the can't participate??..why don't you bums just all resign,go home and get real jobs..oh that's right..THERE AREN'T ANY JOBS!!!

[...] The Middle East could erupt at any moment.  The economy continues to melt down.  And the US Senate is debating the fairness of the college football BCS bowl [...]

I swear this makes me so sick, time for this but can't read a bill you vote on! the worst senate in history

[...] Your United States Senate is holding hearings on the BCS. [...]

As a bona fide Florida Gator, all that matters is that they play for the National championship every year. Every one else are just pretenders. So Senators, stop being partisan about your state. Make it permanently the Gators against whomever.

I supported President Obama in the election and sometimes get upset with Republicans when I feel like they are knit-picking. But I truly believe this will be the best Congress we have ever had. They seem to me to be each one thinking about what is wrong with our government and have come up with a lot of good ideas on how to make government work better–Democrats and Republicans alike. I APPLAUD THEM!!

Though, I did agree that Florida was either number 1 or two last year (Trojans being the other). Too bad we'll never know...

...congrats to Gators though.

Ohh God, the horror BCS memories I have.
Only Pete Carrol has more nightmares about BCS than I do.

And Pen State actually thought they could be number one (in the AP poll) if they beat the Trojans badly enough... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAA

You know, I being a USC Trojan fan I will be selfish in thinking about this one...

BCS is nothing but BS.

Go Trojans, team of the decade, and to heck with all of you loudmouthed SEC fans, like the Big 10, nothing but hype.

This has to be the most ridiculous waste of the government's time I've ever heard of ...... and that's saying something.

Dems are going to screw up college football next.

This is more important than working on health care!

Orin, you are right!

The BCS is anticompetitive and deprives most of the fans in US from the passion of a real chance at a national championship. Pittsburgh and WVU have almost no chance in this system so most of us in this football Mecca turn our backs on the BCS nonsense. New England too is a great football region that yawns at the television on New Years Day, but is nuts for a strong Celtics or Bruins or Patriots team. Is Chicago a football town? Is Green Bay? Is Seattle? All of us outside the privileged regions of America should start a movement not to watch the BCS and to boycott its advertisers for the month of January.

Unlikely things happen in sports. The Pittsburgh Penguins just beat Detroit for the Stanley Cup. The Steelers just won a Super Bowl after a less than mediocre October. The teams that played for the BCS trophy ( I can't remember them because I ignored them) should have had to go through Utah to get there. Maybe they beat Utah or maybe not; but at least those kids would have had the honor of being defeated on the field.

The BCS is anti competitive, bad for the players, bad for the fans and contrary to all we know about young men playing ball.

Dump it Orin!!

I wish you well.

Tom

I hate the way the BCS is structured right now, but isnt there anything more important to work on right now??

here's my biggest issue with the BCS argument. One of their main argument is that an 8 team playoff would make the other bowl games meaningless. The problem with this is they are meaningless now! The only game that really matters is the so called championship game.

I thought we were going to get health care. Who are these people? Why are they not concentrated on the important issues.

Start working!!!

This is what we pay our elected officials to deal with? I would rather them look at more important issues going on in the world. I think the fairness of college football can wait a year or 2.

Seriously? I mean, really, SERIOUSLY?!? With all that is facing the nation, there is a Senate subcommittee looking at this? Would someone please explain why this merits Senatorial subcommittee attention? Please?

The monkeys in our government have nothing better to do? What a great illustration of a total lack of character.

wow...now this is important.....

Politicians stay out of college sports. You can't even run a country.

What??? Doesn't our congress have much bigger things to spend their time on than a sports issue?? This issue has nothing to do with America as a whole, and I can't really believe what I'm reading!

Unemployment is at 9.5 % nationally, and much worse in some places. We lost 8 men in two days in Afghanistan. North Korea tested another missile. The 3 big stories at CNN is Obamas daughters traveling with him, Palin resigning, and our Congress is debating College Championship Football. No wonder we are in a mess. Besides, everyone in the country knows that USC is the greatest college football program there is!

heads up your arses, so much you could be trying to fix and you spend your time on football, I want my taxes back

Please big government, I know it is hard for you to stay out of our lives, but please stay out of our sports!!!!!!!!!!!!

With Afghanistan in turmoil, the economy tanking, bedlam in Iran, I am so glad that Senators are spending precious time and energy on the Bowl Championship Series. Seeing that sports is akin to religion in this country, that makes perfect sense.

The Washington politicians have screwed up everything else they've touched, they may as well screw up college football too.

There are so many more important things for the Senate to be deliberating than whether or not the NCAA Bowl Championships are fair – of course they're not!

The Senate should be tackling all the real pressing issues facing our country:

- 2 wars
- crises in the healthcare and financial industries
- high unemployment
- global warming
- the need to develop alternate energy to make us more independent
- making sure our public schools have enough funding so they don't have to cut reading programs to make ends meet

Just to name a few ...

What kind of a monster have we let our government become? They own us.

Now THIS is what government is for!

Screw national security, the economy, war and healthcare.

I want the senate on college football asap. Let's focus people!

The people's pressing work deals with housing, finical, jobs, and health care issues. But I guess Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch thinks the fairness of some private organization is more pressing.

Don't they have better things to do??

It seems to me that with the economy in the tank, the Senate has many more pressing items to be discussing. Let the NCAA take care of football championships. It's not what we voted for our senators to do, and certainly not what we're paying them to do.

Beautiful! It's not like we don't have real issues to work on. Here is orrin Hatch, the Doctor NO of Republican bipartisanship, convening a hearing on a meaningless and really trivial isse the BCS.

let the freakin fans decide and pay attention to
Iran
IraQ
North Korea
The economy
Health care reform
Energy policy
Climate change

Jesus H Christ

So special interests extend to the sports world, taking up the valuable time of our senators? Hatch should bring the private insurance industry before his Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights subcommittee. That's another fairness, or unfairness, issue!

We have a few more pressing issues then a screwed up Bowl system for the Justice Dept to look at. And we wonder why our economy is in the tank?

The BCS series favors the top 10 or 20 universities in the country. There should be fairness in the system and a play-off championship series should be offered.

With tens of thousands Americans going unemployed every week, 3 million American children homeless, runaway spending, same sex marriage, the Congress wants to play basketball. We really are in trouble.

what a waste but when the libs wont listen to you what else are you going to do.

I for one am so glad they have nothing better to do! Two wars, the economy sucks and the senate is concerned about the fairness of the BCS?? Republicain or Democrat led, I really don"t care. What I do care about is these folks getting back to work on what's important to this country! P.S. IT AIN"T COLLEGE FOOTBALL!

I am a long-time college football fan and for graduate studies attended a university noted for its legacy in college football. My opinions about the BCS are mixed, but I do know one thing for certain: with us fighting multiple wars, the economy in the toilet, unemployment hitting record highs, gas prices on the rise again, and everything else that is troubling this nation, why in God's name is the Senate wasting valuable time and resources on this?!

I, for one, cannot believe that we are going to waste taxpayer money even deciding whether to investigate this or not. Senator Hatch, although I have a good deal of respect for you, I find it quite diminished by this action. You should be ashamed...this is beneath you and the rest of the government of this great country. You cannot call yourself a conservative and even entertain these shenanigans. YOU ARE DOING THAT WHICH YOU ASSAIL THE DEMOCRATS FOR DOING. Give it up and move on to something real.

Nebraska Cornhuskers will make and win a BCS bowl this coming season. Count on it! GO BIG RED!

The president of Nebraska thinks his institution is a major power? HA!

With all the challenges currently facing this country it is unfathomable that the US Senate would spend even a nanosecond on something as trivial as this. Is it a wonder that the country finds itself as challenged as it does? Please stay the course on working to extricate us from the mess you allowed to occur during the Bush years debacle.

And this is important because why....?

We need a play-off system. I feel the real teams that deserve a chance the National Championship are not being consider. The only reason why alot of people still wants the BCS is because all these big coompanies are benefitting from it. They arer the that wants see what should go or not. Norte Dame does need to be in every bowl game if they don't deserve it. They have proven that in the passed couple of years.

mr hatch needs to ask ONE question, where is the Freddie Mac report that was due out to the President, Mr. Geitner, the house finance committee, and of course the American people, from whom you receive $190,000.00 salary, and all you want to investigate is college football..time for term limits..

They got time for this ?

U have gotta b kidding! The country is n a financial crisis and they r doing this. If we keep going like this there won't b a season cause there will b no donations to the schools to support athletic depts.

And Republicans have the nerve to blast Democrats for frivolous legislation and big government? What the hell is congress doing wasting time on deciding how to determine what football team is the best? What did BYU get short changed in a bowl game? There is way more important things to be doing right now than debating bowl game championships.

You have GOT to be kidding!!! This could not be lower on the list of things that are appropriate for Congress to spend time on!!

Is this the best use of your time? Seriously?? When the NCAA is making millions at the expense of "student-athletes" who don't get a dime and rarely get an education, the BCS is not what's messed up about amateur athletics.

Yeah, THIS is what our elected officials are paid to do.... decide football schedules.

(eyes rolling)

Is there a country I can move and expatriot myself? Preferrably some place LESS liberal yet provides liberty?

I dispise the BCS bowl system and would prefer some sort of playoff system instead.

That being stated, honestly doesnt congress have better things to concentrate on like a war, health care, gas prices, economy, social security, states that are going bankrupt left and right.

Save the playoff system vs BCS for water cooler debates and get to something that might be a bit more life and death for constituants.

No wonder nothing gets done for this country.

Resolutions for foreign countries.

Resolution for pop star.

And now a sports investigation.

Glad we have low unemployment, no wars, and everyone has health care, a job, a nice house, and plenty of food. Otherwise, these jerks might miss doing the really important stuff.

stay out of it

Thank goodness that the Senate has finally tackled the issue that's more important than healthcare, taxes, climate control, supreme court nominations, et al.

Demagoguery any?

Playoffs!! That is all.

Excuse me, you guys gonna do anything to help the protesters in Iran, contain North Korea, try and bring down unemployment? Just curious if you all are willing to do your job.

And you wonder why Congress sucks!

Are you kidding me? Don' t they have something better to probe?

You would think the Senate had more important issues to tackle then College football.

OK, chances are they won't post what I just said, so I'll say it in a nicer manner:

And what will the "Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights" committee be doing about the jerks who sell the tickets to these and ALL other events? See...some of us took Antitrust in law school and we're accutely aware of the biggest violation existing in our nation's economy. But hey, I suppose the focus by a GOPer (Hatch) on whether the competition and betting is fair in the sport itself makes perfect sense. Who gives a flying rat's crap about the people who just want to go to the games (or concerts or whatever)?

This country is going broke and congress is voting on football. Time for a change allright; kick all of them out and start over both gop and demo's.

Now congress is going to interfer into football and screw it up to.

It must be the slow season in D.C.

This is a Congress that can't get out of it's own way, the deficit is going through the roof, more government than a person can stand, and now they want to look into the BCS??? You can't make this stuff up!!!

Football championships, baseball steroids... what, are they done renaming "Freedom Fries"? If our founding fathers only knew...

Another example of your leaders wisely spend our money. What else can we expect from this spend happy Administration?

Another example of your leaders wisely spend our money. What else can we expect from this spend happy Obama Administration?

I am a huge football fan. Huge. But, doesn't the government have other issues to work on besides the BCS? Just asking.

wow...they don't have anuthing else to keep them busy?

I seriously cannot believe that we are wasting taxpayer dollars on this, amid the entire economic crisis that is currently happening. I like Orrin Hatch, but COME'ON PEOPLE!

Now Democrats want a 2nd stimulus bill because the first one was "a bit too small" to quote one of Obama's outside advisors (Laura Tyson).

You voted these clowns into office, accept the consequences of your actions. They are destroying America.