http://tacticalip.com/2009/12/09/the-solution-to-the-bcs-conundrum-found-at-the-patent-office/ Tactically Relevant. Patently Entertaining. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:19:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://tacticalip.com/2009/12/09/the-solution-to-the-bcs-conundrum-found-at-the-patent-office/#comment-1070 Scott Nyman Wed, 29 Dec 2010 14:44:28 +0000 http://tacticalip.com/?p=556#comment-1070 This situation also happened leading up to the 2007 BCS Championship Game, when #2 Michigan lost to #1 Ohio State in a very close and well played game. I don't like to discuss what happened next, but a playoff system would have certainly settled any doubts over which teams were worthy of a shot at the 2007 title... This situation also happened leading up to the 2007 BCS Championship Game, when #2 Michigan lost to #1 Ohio State in a very close and well played game. I don’t like to discuss what happened next, but a playoff system would have certainly settled any doubts over which teams were worthy of a shot at the 2007 title…

]]> http://tacticalip.com/2009/12/09/the-solution-to-the-bcs-conundrum-found-at-the-patent-office/#comment-105 Mark Malek Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:28:15 +0000 http://tacticalip.com/?p=556#comment-105 I believe it is the same clause that gives Congress the power to look into Steriod use in Major League Baseball, i.e., the I cannot find another way to waste tax payer dollars today, so I will now get involved with professional sports clause. Incidentally, this is similar to the clause that the President is thinking about relying on to limit the pay of CEO's at private companies. I believe it is the same clause that gives Congress the power to look into Steriod use in Major League Baseball, i.e., the I cannot find another way to waste tax payer dollars today, so I will now get involved with professional sports clause. Incidentally, this is similar to the clause that the President is thinking about relying on to limit the pay of CEO’s at private companies.

]]> http://tacticalip.com/2009/12/09/the-solution-to-the-bcs-conundrum-found-at-the-patent-office/#comment-104 jfischer1975 Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:16:23 +0000 http://tacticalip.com/?p=556#comment-104 I just wanna know which <a href="http://topics.law.cornell.edu/constitution/articlei#section8" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Article I legislative power</a> provides the authority for Congress to stick their dirty little fingers into college football.  And don't tell me it's the commerce power, or I'll shoot you with my gun, which I can bring into a school without violating federal law.  <i>See</i> <a href="http://supreme.justia.com/us/514/549/case.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><i>United States v. Lopez</i>, 514 U.S. 549 (1995)</a> ("the scope of the interstate commerce power must be considered in the light of our dual system of government and may not be extended so as to embrace effects upon interstate commerce so indirect and remote that to embrace them, in view of our complex society, would effectually obliterate the distinction between what is national and what is local and create a completely centralized government." (internal quotes omitted)). I just wanna know which Article I legislative power provides the authority for Congress to stick their dirty little fingers into college football.  And don’t tell me it’s the commerce power, or I’ll shoot you with my gun, which I can bring into a school without violating federal law.  See United States v. Lopez, 514 U.S. 549 (1995) (“the scope of the interstate commerce power must be considered in the light of our dual system of government and may not be extended so as to embrace effects upon interstate commerce so indirect and remote that to embrace them, in view of our complex society, would effectually obliterate the distinction between what is national and what is local and create a completely centralized government.” (internal quotes omitted)).

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