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NCAA’s Emmert replies to Justice Dept. by The Sports Network
In a letter to the Department of Justice on Wednesday, NCAA president Mark Emmert said the association cannot unilaterally create a playoff and declined to comment on the Bowl Championship Series.
Assistant attorney general Christine A. Varney, part of the Department of Justice’s antitrust division, had sent a letter to Emmert on May 3 asking, among other things, why the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) does not have a playoff.
But in his reply, Emmert essentially wrote that his hands were tied, saying the NCAA does not have the authority to create a playoff in the FBS.
He also said that because the NCAA does not operate the BCS system, “it is not appropriate for me to provide views on the system,” adding that her questions about the system were better directed to the BCS itself.
Much of Emmert’s two-page letter addressed Varney’s question of why the FBS does not have a playoff when so many other sports have NCAA-run playoffs or championships.
Emmert explained that at “no time in the history of the FBS of its predecessor, Division I-A, has a formal proposal come before the membership to establish a postseason football championship in that subdivision.”
He added that unless the FBS membership makes a proposal, then “there is no directive for the Association to establish a playoff.”
Emmert had previously said that he was willing to help create an NCAA championship for the FBS — something Varney brought up — but clarified in Wednesday’s letter that the change could not happen without FBS member support.
The BCS system has been in place since 1998, and uses its own standings to create a national championship game as well as four other matchups in prestigious bowls.
Of the 11 conferences involved in the FBS, six have automatic bids to certain bowls. Critics of the BCS system maintain that it shortchanges teams in conferences without automatic bids and restricts opportunity to play for a title.
The system has been the subject of much controversy in recent years, and Varney said in her letter that Utah’s attorney general announced an intention to file an anti-trust lawsuit against the BCS. She added that the Justice Department recently received a request to open an investigation into the BCS.
With that in mind, Varney asked him if he “determined that there are aspects of the BCS system that do not serve the interests of fans, colleges, universities, and players.”
But Emmert did not provide his stance, saying the NCAA has no role to play in the BCS aside from licensing bowls.
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