November 20, 2009
Boise, Idaho
'BCS is a monopoly of inequity and greed'
By KBCI Web Staff, Associated Press
BOISE - Boise State's president Bob Kustra is applauding a Utah senator's effort for the government to look into college football's Bowl Championship Series.
On Wednesday, Sen. Orrin Hatch asked the president to launch a Justice Department investigation into the way the BCS — a complex system of computer rankings and polls that often draws criticism — crowns its national champion. "Mr. President, as you have publicly stated on multiple occasions, the BCS system is in dire need of reform," Hatch, R-Utah, wrote in a 10-page letter, obtained by The Associated Press. Also on Wednesday, Bob Kustra, BSU president, released the following statement: “The Bowl Championship Series needs to be reformed, and I thank Sen. Hatch for moving this issue ahead by calling for a Justice Department investigation. “The BCS is a fundamentally flawed system that is unfair in its access, governance and revenue distribution. This so-called championship has fallen into the hands of the commissioners of the six BCS automatic qualifying conferences. They write the rules. They control the voting and power structure. They keep the millions of dollars earmarked for the chosen few. “Nowhere is the inequality of the BCS system more evident than in revenue distribution. The automatic qualifying conferences and Notre Dame receive 90 percent of the $132 million generated by the BCS bowls." "Annually, non-automatic qualifying conferences are only guaranteed 9 percent of the total revenue to split among 51 schools. The BCS is a monopoly of inequity and greed that has no place in intercollegiate football.” |
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