illegal enterprise? We may think so in CougarTown-this is nothing new, but here's the ESPN thread: http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3351626

This may be my own bias, but i tend to look at BYU as a non BcS powerhouse as far as university standards go, and facilities match many BcS schools. If we were to make it to a BcS bowl game...I am willing to bet that the payoff would be somewhat larger than hawaii's, yewts, and boise st. Why? interest-the kind that increases yearly, but also the fan and nation's personal intrigue to BYU in the game.

Notice what states the three congressmen represented? Georgia, Hawai'i, and Idaho. Where was one of Utah's?

Doesn't congress have a recession to be worrying about?

You think the six BCS conferences are bad. Just wait until the federal government gets it's hands on it. These are the guys, remember, that caused the school mascot fiasco. I can see it all now. BYU, if you don't play on Sunday, we will take away all federal funding from your school. Utah, if you don't play a certain percentage of females, you will lose accreditation (Oops! they already field 100% sackless females). Nicholls State, you can play Ohio State but to make it fair we will spot you 50 points. And then to cap it all off, they will have fair and sensitive playoffs but will not declare a national champion due to the psychological damage to the losing teams and how it might affect their yet unborn offspring.

Let's play cards with the deck we have. Getting the gov't. involved is a recipe for disaster!

1967cougar wrote:

You think the six BCS conferences are bad. Just wait until the federal government gets it's hands on it. These are the guys, remember, that caused the school mascot fiasco. I can see it all now. BYU, if you don't play on Sunday, we will take away all federal funding from your school. Utah, if you don't play a certain percentage of females, you will lose accreditation (Oops! they already field 100% sackless females). Nicholls State, you can play Ohio State but to make it fair we will spot you 50 points. And then to cap it all off, they will have fair and sensitive playoffs but will not declare a national champion due to the psychological damage to the losing teams and how it might affect their yet unborn offspring.

Let's play cards with the deck we have. Getting the gov't. involved is a recipe for disaster!

Wow... I couldn't have said it better.

Hengst wrote:

Doesn't congress have a recession to be worrying about?

Do you really want the politicians managing the economy? The best thing they could do would be to spend time on things like the BCS. Think of all the tax dollars never spent, earmarks never used, etc, that would entail.

To quote Will Rogers, "be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for."

To paraphrase an old saying, "A politician fooling with the economy is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower. They don't win many accuracy contests, but they sure keep the crowd's attention."