Everyone agrees that the way the national championships in football is decided is silly. This year there are three teams who are not playing for the national championship that are undefeated. The system grew up as a result of coaches and athletic directors in the NCAA devised the method ultimately to share the wealth in bowl games and to choose a national champion. Since it was first developed in the late 1990s there have been a series of decisions - based on polls and computer ranking system - that have been questionable.
Rep. Joe Barton from Texas, who is a republican(with a 96% ACA rating), has proposed that Congress regulate the BCS system. At a hearing earlier in the year he described the system thusly "It's like communism. You can't fix it."
I'm confused. I agree that the BCS rating system is horrible, but since when should Congress regulate the operations of this kind of private entity? Can Rep. Barton find any place in Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution that says Congress shall have the power to regulate college football or even sports?
A lot of conservatives rail against the efforts by the left to control our lives. From my perspective the disease seems to be in the institution not based simply on political philosophy.
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The people who want less government are usually the same who try to create more government.
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