Look who's working for the BCS
Published: 5/11/2009 9:40 PM
Last Modified: 5/11/2009 9:40 PM
The BCS has been pretty good to the Oklahoma Sooners. It got them a shot at the 2003 national championship despite the 35-7 beatdown Kansas State put on them in that year's Big 12 championship. It broke the three-way Big 12 South tie in their favor a year ago, propelling them into another national title game.
One of these years, however, it's not going to work out so wonderfully. It has screwed too many other teams over the past 12 years not to eventually catch OU.
And when that day comes, I wonder how J.C. Watts is going to feel.
The former OU quarterback and U.S. congressman, Daniel Libit of The Politico reports, is a lobbyist for the BCS. Has been for five years, in fact, pocketing $620,000 in the process.
"The job... involves defending the BCS against a flurry of politicians who want to tear down the quirky system," Libit writes.
Three things...
The BCS is practically indefensible. Politicians would be wise to tear down unemployment, illiteracy and crime rates before tackling the BCS.
And I liked Watts a whole lot more when he was a football player.
-- Guerin Emig
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Guerin Emig
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