Feds want to manipulate the NCAA again

[Future Walk-On]

good college football is stupid

[SFP]

I understand anti-trust laws but I want to know how sports programs make a difference to how we educate, feed, house and protect our citizens? Please go whine to a couch sitting uneducated person about ant-trust laws and college sports because these laws are about services that effect services or products that the average citizen/business cannot live without. The USA can survive as a country without any sports. Imagine that! What happened to taking responsibility for your own pursuit of happiness? Stop watching NCAA sports, get off the couch and perhaps you can make the change you believe in.

[Headless Bobcat]

Stop watching NCAA sports, get off the couch and perhaps you can make the change you believe in.

I would get off the couch and make a change...but I can't seem to find my pants.

[Bravesfan]

I understand anti-trust laws but I want to know how sports programs make a difference to how we educate, feed, house and protect our citizens? Please go whine to a couch sitting uneducated person about ant-trust laws and college sports because these laws are about services that effect services or products that the average citizen/business cannot live without. The USA can survive as a country without any sports. Imagine that! What happened to taking responsibility for your own pursuit of happiness? Stop watching NCAA sports, get off the couch and perhaps you can make the change you believe in.

I agree. I mean what the "bleep" do these people think they are doing when they should be concentrating on fighting the war against terrorism and get the economy back on track?! I consider myself a Republican, but if this is a Republican initiative as elluded to above, then this is just plain stupid!

Yes, the NCAA is a big business revolving around sports which helps the economy, but not everyone partakes in the NCAA. Which is why they should be spending most of their time trying to get more money into everyone's pockets by improving the economy. We don't need the government interfering in player disicipline, and we CERTAINLY don't need them interfering in the NCAA playoff structure! Unbelievable!

[algotrader]

We have so many rules, I don't understand why we can't ban politics from the board. It gets old.

[Bravesfan]

We have so many rules, I don't understand why we can't ban politics from the board. It gets old.

Uhhh, maybe you forgot but the subject of this thread has to do with the government intervention into the NCAA, the main crux of what has been discussed here for the past many years relating to Bradley basketball and the Missouri Valley Conference. If the feds are trying to manipulate how the NCAA runs their business, then of course we have to talk about the politics related to this! This could effect how the NCAA is run and how teams from mid-major conferences are chosen for the postseason. So no matter how "old" this subject is to you, this is current news. Not much of a way around this I'm afraid. If you don't want to talk about this subject then don't participate in this particular thread, that's all.

And regarding your earlier post in this thread, yes, we all agree that there are a LOT of problems in how the NCAA runs their organization. But that still does not give the government the right to waste time dealing with the NCAA (or other pro sports for that matter) while the economy is teetering on the edge of a double dip recession due to high gas prices and taxes.

I really think the government at all levels have a lot better things to do with their time.