Orrin Hatch wants Boise State invited to the WH

[Upton]

Sen. Orrin Hatch is urging President Barack Obama to invite Boise State University to the White House along with Bowl Championship Series winner Alabama, arguing both undefeated teams deserve the honor traditionally afforded to college football's national champion.

The Utah Republican, a fierce critic of the BCS, made the request in a letter to Obama Thursday.

Hatch wrote that because there is no playoff, fans are left to speculate whether more than one team deserves to be called the best in college football. Hatch was already irate that his home state team, Utah, didn't get to play for the national championship last year despite going undefeated.

Last fall, he urged Obama to ask the Justice Department to investigate whether the BCS violated antitrust laws, but he has yet to receive a response.

In Thursday's letter, Hatch argued that inviting both teams will "send a clear message" that champions should be chosen on the field.

But he shouldn't bank on it.

"The president has previously articulated his displeasure with the BCS system, but he's focused on more important things right now," White House spokesman Adam Abrams said in an e-mail to The Associated Press.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/sports/2010796423_apusbcswhitehouse.html?syndication=rss

The winner of the Cupcake Bowl should definitely NOT be awarded with something that is traditionally reserved for the national champions..but I'm all for anybody going after the BCS.

[madinmaryland]

1. I'm glad that Orrin is keeping himself busy with these important issues.

:rofl:

[El Supremo]

2. Right on!

Only I wish it wasn't Orrin who said it.

[Upton]

3. I see you're a Boise fan now..

what happened to TCU and Texas....oh, I know...they LOST!:rofl:

[El Supremo]

4. No. This is just temporary acknowledgment of Boise State's winning the National Championship.

[Upton]

5. Hmm...

"temporary acknowledgment" of a feat that never took place. I do believe you're in denial.

[lazarus]

6. They are the National Champions

of being in fourth place.

[madinmaryland]

7. Nice post, Orrin!

[El Supremo]

8. I'm calling the ASPCA

[madinmaryland]

9. Heh! Good one, El!

BTW, our daughter does all sorts of stuff to the cats, and they actually enjoy it!

[GaYellowDawg]

13. You'd do better to call it the Honorable Mention Bowl Championship.

Boise won the national championship about as much as the 2004 Auburn WarTigEaglPlainsmen did. What's next? You gonna declare the winner of the NIT as national champs in basketball?

[El Supremo]

14. No. Texas is #1 now.

[caraher]

10. Traditionally?

There have been a LOT of undefeated major college football teams not invited to the White House...

Maybe they can score an invite to meet with a Utah senator in DC?

[Auggie]

11. What? A rational idea in the Sports Forum?

:thumbsup:

Yeah, and Hatch can foot the travel expense and pick up the lunch tab too, the asshole.

[GaYellowDawg]

12. FUCK Orrin Hatch, that sorry-assed motherfucker.

Boise State had a good team, but they wouldn't have gotten through either Texas's or Alabama's schedule undefeated. It's one thing to be able to gear up for 2 or 3 real games a year and play a powderpuff schedule the rest of the way and it's another to play in a BCS conference. At some point when you're in a big-boy conference, the grind will hit. Maybe BSU could just schedule an elite SEC team early in the season, get turned inside out like they did in 2005, and Orrin would just have to SHUT. THE. FUCK. UP.