Utah AG Investigating BCS

The Attorney General for the state of Utah, Mark Shurflett, must have too much time on his hands these days.

((We know... "time is ticking away, ticking away from me..."))

Shurflett is now investigating whther of not the idea of the Bowl Championship Series is an anti-trust violation.

In an article in the Orlando Sentinel, Shurflett contends " the BCS unfairly puts schools like Utah ((pictured, thanks Scott G. Winterton/Deseret News)), which is a member of a conference without an automatic bid to the lucrative bowl games, at a competitive and financial disadvantage.

"We've established that from the very first day, from the very first kickoff in the college season, more than half of the schools are put on an unlevel playing field," Shurtleff said Tuesday. "They will never be allowed to play for a national championship."

The Utes Athletic Department is going nowhere near this one...understandably.
Interesting note in all this... if Shurflett finds sufficient grounds that a conspiracy has caused a monopoly he would be suing his own state. Utah is a member of the Mountain West Conference and Utah State is a member of the WAC- both are BCS member conferences.

"It's not about bragging rights. It's a multimillion dollar — hundreds of millions — business where the BCS schools get richer and non-BCS get poorer," Shurtleff said.

Uh huh...good luck there...
Ben Winslow's article in the Deseret News goes in to more detail.

KSL-TV's Jed Boal catches up with Shurflett...

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