VIVA THE BCS, COMRADE!

Hey, if you can’t use meaningless buzz words to get what you want, then what good are they?

Actually, a playoff system is more like communism simply because you could have 3 or more losses and somehow sneak into the playoffs. It’s like Communism in theory: everybody equal.

Of course, this spoils Crazy Old Testament God’s great desire to see the strong massacre the strong. Besides, my Buckeyes provide enough sacrificial lambs to the Big Gladiator Arena known as BCS Bowl Games. See: Todd Boeckman vs LSU

If this comes to a vote, we will deal with the unconstitutionality later, although ironically Georgia and Oklahoma took care of the antitrust issue…

how does this shake out well for that douchebag representative? This is not a Dem/GOP issue, this is a, which conference/s are your constituents in? The Big Televen, for example. A bunch of Democrats, but they are going to vote against this because the MAC will never get into a BCS game anyway. The Big Televen, on the other hand, gets 2 teams into the BCS, and all that money, games on a yearly basis.

The SEC politicians? COME ON…

ACC, hey, we did not deserve to get into the BCS last year, probably, but are our representatives going to take money out of our coffers in the magic day when two ACC teams get into BCS games?

Yeah, John Swofford is not a Rhodes scholar, but he should have looked at that retard representative like Ken Lews was staring at Maxine Waters.

I would have also accepted, “are you retarded, or just fucktarded?”

I’m all for a playoff. I would love to see it happen and I think eventually, it will.

However, I think having dopes like Barton advocating your cause is just not a good thing.

Don’t sell Barton short…. he has an intellect of subtle brilliance and can tease the threads of an argument into the finest gossamer. We need only look back a few days when he eviscerated a Nobel Laureate for the world to see. Steven Chu surely rues the day he appeared in front of him, and given six seconds, was left baffled, and (to quote St. Bobby) “bumfuzzled” by the simple question “Where does oil come from?”

http://wonkette.com/408012/dumb-congressman-brags-about-stumping-nobel-winning-energy-secretary-with-stupid-question

This post makes me wonder if Orson bothered to watch the bit of testimony in question. Barton said specifically he was not comparing the BCS directly to communism, rather making the point that like communism is has been tweaked time and time again only for people to come back to the conclusion it does not work.

No need to let the facts get in the way of a good story I guess.

Agreed

The only reason I don’t expect this to be an absolute disaster is that I can’t imagine the BCS could really get much more fucked up than it already is – at least, not without actively trying to make it worse.

Here’s an idea- everyone write your Congressperson* and tell them to keep their fucking hands off our football, ang do fix things like, oh say baseball, which has clearly worked so well for them this far.

*in my case, the letter will be to Bobby Rush, the cuddly former Black Panther and Friend of Fidel, that icon of communism. This whole thing borders on levels of absurdity that British Pantomime wouldn’t even touch.

Barton’s level of dumbassery automatically makes him an honorary member of the S.C. General Assembly.

Oh, and dude, Afghanis is not the preferred nomenclature. Afghans, please.

I love Barton’s lecture about greed when the spectacularly filthy cement plants in his district spew shitty air all over Dallas/Fort Worth during the summer. He cares so much about reining greed that he has fought tooth and nail to keep them going for literally decades. It’s balls hot here in July and August, and I have to breathe in all that junk on top of it.

Oh, but he can drop everything and rail about the BCS, probably because there was a news camera on him at the time. Thanks a bunch, asshole.

Side question – if Texas did in fact secede from the Union, would the Longhorns be free to remove the asterisk? They would, technically, be “national” champions.

I’d say that college football has it’s own version of unkillable spetznaz units and firm-thighed womanflesh. But other than that, Barton is indeed an idiot.

In his defense, he did call out the fucked up relationship between Notre Dame and the BCS, a relationship that angers me greatly. I still don’t think it’s any of Congress’ business, but it certainly ain’t right.

Actually, Joe has a point. Exhibit A. No matter how shitty the ACC conference is, or the Big Televen or the Pac-10, they get a BCS bowl bid every single year. And just so the little guys don’t feel left out, we give them an extra spot too. Everyone’s equal, even when they’re not. That is a lot like communism.

If the BCS just took whoever the hell it wanted by choosing the teams that would make it the most money every year, that’s capitalism.

Tovarisch, I can answer the question as to why Russia no longer produces firm-thighed womanflesh. When Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Georgia, and (the) Ukraine all left the great Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, they lost a lot of their raw materials for firm-thighed womanflesh (and the raw material is now exported directly to America via the Internet). As for the rest of those glorious products, who’s to say they don’t, and that Vlad Putin isn’t just hiding them very carefully/keeping them in the hands of his Mafia buddies?

Isn’t the BCS more like, say, an Oil Cartel from Barton’s home state of Texas? A bunch of large, powerful institutions setting the rules of the game to favor the already large and powerful?

If the BCS were communist, Louisiana Tech would shoot LSU in the face because those damn Kulaks are hogging all the 5 stars.

When they fix the automatic bids for unworthy conference winners ranked out of the Top 10, we can talk about fixing the automatic bid for ND when they’re ranked in the Top 8.

Since there are currently 10 available spots, I see the inclusion of unworthy conference champs out of the Top 10 (what was Pitt ranked in 2004?) as a much greater threat to the “integrity of the BCS” than Notre Dame.

If you’re driving a PT Cruiser then castration would only make us equal.