DOJ Checks In

The NCAA and the U.S. Department of Justice are at the beginning of a story that is under the radar, but will be here for quite some time.

The chief of the Anti-Trust Division has notified the NCAA that they are looking into why college football does not have playoffs at the BCS level.

They are looking into whether there might be anti-trust issues over the fact that the champions of six different conferences get to play in the top-tier bowl games with the huge financial windfalls. Everyone else gets the bowl games of lesser money.

The post-season bowl games are a huge bonanza for some schools. The feds want to see that the NCAA complies with anti-trust guidelines.

I look for a protracted investigation and hearings unless the NCAA can resolve this very quickly.
This type of stuff makes for great political theater on Capitol Hill.