BCS, Y'all Just Got Served.

I won't go into the details of my own objections to the "Broken Championship System", or my suggestions for righting the misguided ship of FBS football; I have previous articles addressing those topics, and I don't believe in duplication.

However, there was some additional news this week that (in my opinion) signifies the proverbial 'tip of the iceberg' for the captains cowardly of the BCS. vessel:

• Oregon president David Frohnmayer (current chair of the BCS Presidential Oversight Committee... let's call him "Admiral")
• Notre Dame president Rev. John Jenkins
• Ole Miss president Robert Khayat
• Pitt president Mark Nordenberg
• Northern Illinois president John Peters
• Nebraska president Harvey Perlman
• Penn State president Graham Spanier
• Virginia Tech president Charles Steger

A quote from the esteemed admiral of this sporting armada:

"We deeply respect the president-elect and we are glad that he is a fan of college football," Frohnmayer said in an e-mail response to ESPN Tuesday. "We have the most compelling regular season in all of sports, and I'm sure that contributes to Senator Obama's enjoyment of our great game."

"My colleagues and I on the BCS Presidential Oversight Committee have discussed the future of postseason football on many occasions and we do not believe a playoff would be in the best interest of the sport, the student-athletes or our many other constituencies," Frohnmayer said.

(from http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3704864)

While this committee is presumably speaking on behalf of football fans everywhere (unless fans don't count as one of those "other constituencies"), there is clear public will for reform of this broken system, which represents a purgatory between a "purist", non-playoff system which doesn't even pretend to decide the top two teams (the system as it existed pre-BCS), and a "reformist", playoff-centered system which does away with the biases and anti-competitive foundation (yes, the BCS was created to KEEP THE SMALL FRY OUT) of this sporting version of oligarchical collectivism (see Orwell, George: Nineteen Eighty-Four).

Three U.S. representatives have co-sponsored a bill with the aim of "breaking" the BCS cartel:

• Joe Barton, R-Texas (6th district): ranking Republican on House Energy and Commerce Committee
• Bobby Rush, D-Illinois (1st district): member of House Energy and Commerce Committee; chair of Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection; erstwhile opponent of Barack Obama (for the 1st district congressional seat) in 2000
• Michael McCaul, R-Texas (10th district): member of House Ethics Committee; former Deputy Attorney General, State of Texas

In terms of actual subpoenas being served, it may take quite a while for the bureaucratic machinery to clunk and plod through the process of dismantling the BCS. But given the apparent views of major players in both parties--let's include the President-Elect--I wouldn't rule out some congressional testimony for various BCS bigwigs (such as those mentioned above) in the near future (i.e., 2009-2012).

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