subject and i think it brought out some of the points that mr barton made eloquently and also brought out the other side of it and i think because of that hearing the b c s went out and started to try to reform and i think how to clue participation how to have disparity with a remedy revenue under the current system and consider the impact of any system on the academic integrity of the student athletes and their institution every other sport we had the clear opportunity for a runoff yet in a division one a we don't have it i think just in closing i would suggest to my colleagues that b c s has made reform since the hearing i had in two thousand and five they agreed to expand the presidential oversight committee to include a representative from each conference including representatives from the non automatic qualifying conferences prior to this change in an automatic and on automatic qualifying conference only had one individual representing all five automatic qualifying conferences so i think there's a list of things they've done to improve his two thousand and five when i had my hearing  think certainly should take note of this hearing and this bill and some of the comments that martin has said and do due diligence because in the end this is something that has been occurring throughout thank you mr chairman two quick points first i think the antitrust question is one that ought to be addressed if you're in an automatic qualifying conference that means every year the funds from b c s games spread across those teams if you're not in one of those conferences you need one of your teams to go  and maybe they get it so i think there is an added to be addressed secondly i think the powers that be in the b c s have once again this year given us cause for concern in terms of determining the match ups i think in an effort to protect schools from support to have law for some effect of the law but expresses congress sense about that i don't like the b s c system any more than anybody else or anybody else does but i do think that actually going so far as to pass a law that would make it an unlawful practice to refer to this is the way the sponsors referred to as a little bit overboard so my mama taught me not to say anything nice about something don't say anything at all so i'll defer any further comment on it but thank you for your leadership in calling this hearing and i look forward to getting  that this issue more more than just whether or not this is something within the realm of congress or government i just think it's sending a wrong message at a time when unemployment rates are  historically high least in the modern era the number of working poor in my district who don't fall within the unemployment rate continues to skyrocket so that many people who college football as big a football fan as there is in congress perhaps and i may be as big a buckeye fan as you're ever going to find i just think with with all due respect  a ranking member who i think very highly of a chairman who i think very highly of our time would be better spent on other issues for that reason i if i were going to vote on this  is eleven years to get it right and they never will it is multi billion dollars it isn't interstate commerce it is under the jurisdiction of this committee  so it is it is not the highest priority but it is an issue that is worthy of the subcommittee and hopefully the full committee secondly i would go back to what i said  dame at all but they made a decision to kind of take their football and go create and when they did that they also made a decision to exclude everybody else from the majority of the revenue if a member of congressman did that with the medicare system or the medicaid system food stamp program or the veterans mr barton was the chairman and i commend him for allowing subcommittee to have this hearing because of that hearing did make a lot of changes right after that hearing in two thousand and six the national championship game was created as a separate event from other bowl games which provided additional access for participation in that b c s bowl game because it expanded the number of bowl slots by two this benefit it all come including the non automatic qualifying conferences again in two thousand and six adults of this hearing the criteria for selection as an at large team was brought in to allow more teams to qualify previously to qualify you had to be a team with nine victories and ranked in the top automatic qualifying conferences good earn an automatic bid and as i mentioned opening statement just last month the b c s agreed to expand the presidential oversight committee of the b c s to include a representative from each conference improvements and i think mr ford said he agrees with that so that's that's good news that's good news now to mr barrow and others that say why are we looking at this i have to tell you we had a hearing in two thousand and five none of those things would occur so  mr barton by bringing this forward and able to get a markup and mr rush leadership here we have a chance to perhaps move this further along and get some more reforms so that it's a double edged sword in the sense that the b c s is improving making changes and perhaps this markup today will also move in the direction to help make it clear more competitive is there any other