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Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Sports Law - More on "Department of Justice asks NCAA why it does not have football playoff"
Updating this ILB entry from May 4, 2011, Indy Star reporter Jeff Rabjohns wrote yesterday in a story beginning:
The letter the Department of Justice sent to the NCAA regarding the Bowl Championship Series earlier this month is, at best, a preliminary inquiry.It does not indicate that an investigation of the bowl system is coming and may not lead to any further action, legal experts say. The letter from Assistant Attorney General Christine Varney, sent to NCAA president Mark Emmert, asked: Why isn't there a playoff for major-college football when there is for nearly every other college sport?
"The answer is, 'Because our membership has not chosen to do that. It's not like I, Mark Emmert, can do that,' " IUPUI law school dean Gary Roberts said. "The member schools would have to vote on that and the membership is dominated by schools that benefit from the BCS system.
"That's undoubtedly the real answer."
Posted by Marcia Oddi on May 18, 2011 04:13 PM
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