Voice in the Wilderness

That's fascinating. But I don't think there's much of a danger of excluding Texas from the BCS -- I suspect the idea is to get California and Florida (and maybe, say, Alabama and Michigan) to pass similar legislation, and then where would the BCS be? Even if it is grievously outside the state government's jurisdiction, I doubt Wentworth would upset too many Longhorns (and certainly no Aggies, there being no danger of them actually reaching the BCS any time soon) if he successfully initiated a playoff in college football.
 

Well, john, you obviously don't know many Aggie fans. My blood ran cold after reading this post. What a moronic idea! I do NOT want to risk years in which texas schools would be excluded from a rightfully earned BCS bowl game and the correlating revenues. (It would be just Aggie luck that we actually qualify that year!) You really think states like Florida are going to pass a similar law? Their folks would go absolutely ape-sh*t! I realize wentworth is an Aggie, but I think he's way off on his approach.

For what it's worth, Mr. Texasbug does not agree with me. He wants a playoff by whatever means possible.
 

I'm kinda torn on this one... (not really) While I hate the BCS, I'm thinking that maybe if some states pass similar laws, the BCS may not snub my K-State Wildcats in the years we actually deserve to go to a BCS game. We had years where we deserved to go but were snubbed (Longhorns can relate), but we had to kick the snot out of OU (which was worth it in and of itself) to actually make it to a BCS game, and then it was very begudgingly.
But then I come back to reality and see that even if all the big football states boycotted the BCS, and my Cats were ranked # 1 in all the polls, the BCS would still find a way to snub them because they hate Snyder's non-conference scheduling.

What it really comes down to though, is that no matter how much I hate the BCS (and I do, with a passion), and would love to see a better system, this is truly outside of the jurisdiction of the Ledge. And it's not just about the revenue for whatever school would be excluded also. Travis is right, excluding TX schools from BCS games doesn't affect just the TX schools, it affects the entire Big 12 conference. The other 5 states would have a collective coniption fit and fight it all the way to the supreme court if they had to.

Would you want to tell one of them big linebackers, Longhorn, aggie, or Red Raider (we can agree for now that Baylor isn't in the mix) that he can't play in the biggest game of his college career? I wouldn't.
 

Good point, Cindy. Why do you think Wentworth waited until Derrick Johnson graduated?