MWC MB thread discussing above linked BCS commentary by BSU President.Link at http://www.mwcboard.com/www/forums/inde ... opic=18330

WAC MB thread also discussing the above Kustra piece at http://forums.scout.com/mb.aspx?s=451&f=2368&t=4412548

Denver Post article(previously posted in another thread)discussing this week's Commissioner review of the MWC BCS proposal.Link at http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_12591036

USAToday article discussing the use of lobbyists by the MWC and the BCS in their efforts to influence Congress regarding the BCS/Playoff situation.Link at http://www.usatoday.com/sports/2009-06- ... over_N.htm

USAToday article discussing this week's BCS Commissioners meeting that begins tomorrow.Unclear which changes will be recommended to the BCS Presidents although the selection committee scheme may have the best chance.Link at http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/ ... ners_N.htm

Article discussing the MWC attempt to change the BCS at http://www.independentmail.com/news/200 ... /nice-idea

Real Clear Sports interview with Utah Senator Orrin Hatch regarding the BCS and possible Senate hearings in the next few weeks.Link at http://www.realclearsports.com/articles ... hatch.html

No surprise,BCS Commissioners release statement indicating that the MWC BCS plan was not supported by the other conferences.Apparently,there may be some support to change how the BCS distributes revenue and to change the BCS goverance structure.Unclear what recommendations will be made to the BCS Presidents who meet next week.Look for more threats of Congressional hearings and lawsuits.Link to Denver Post article at http://www.denverpost.com/ci_12615604

Denver Post article discussing TODAY'S scheduled BCS Presidential Oversight Committee conference call to discuss the MWC BCS proposal.Although the MWC playoff proposal is DOA,it will be interesting to see if the BCS Presidents approve any PARTS of this plan to include a possible selection committee scheme.Link at http://www.denverpost.com/sports/ci_12676175

USAToday article discussing yesterday's BCS Presidents meeting.As anticipated,the MWC plan was rejected.There was some talk of possibly reviewing some of the individual ideas concerning revenue distribution,access, and goverance in the future.Link at http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/ ... osal_N.htm

MWC MB thread discussing above linked USAToday article regarding BCS Presidents meeting at http://www.mwcboard.com/www/forums/inde ... opic=18469

ESPN article discussing yesterdays BCS Presidents meeting .Link at http://myespn.go.com/blogs/ncfnation/0- ... posal.html

USAToday blog article discussing Orrin Hatch and Senate panel hearings of BCS scheduled for July 7.Link at http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/20 ... tball.html

Article with interview with new BCS Presidential Committee Chairman,Harvey Perlman,Chancellor of Nebraska.Link at http://nebraska.statepaper.com/vnews/di ... b497039a24

Wow... when you read the garbage that guy spews, it just seems like he was trained by an old Soviet propaganda minister. It's like TASS or ISVESTIA.... I have to agree that the MWC can't expect the other BCS conferences to feel ANY motive to change the format (which MWC, WAC, MAC, C-USA and Sun-Belt have all signed off on) prior to expiration of the current format / TV contract. So let's not even discuss making changes until that expires.

But Mr. Perlman is just stone-walling with the same tired old arguments, with regard to future changes.

Those poor students ! We're so worried about the academic impact on them.... OH by the way, we enacted a permanent 12th game to the regular season schedule a few years ago (and what about its academic impact ?). Not to mention the conference championship games in the SEC, Big XII, ACC, C-USA, MAC...

What about all the poor bowl games ! Especially the really crummy ones - featuring the #7 SEC team vs. the #6 ACC team (why would they be affected ? - they are meaningless now, they could continue to exist and be meaningless in the future !)

And WHY exactly would any playoff be forced to be sited on a campus, rather than a neutral field like.... hmmm.... a bowl game site ? He wants you to believe that nobody would make the trip. Let's think about the NCAA basketball tournament. The NCAA sells the tickets by a lottery on the open market almost a year in advance. People snap them up in a hurry... having no idea who will be playing at a given site. I would say less than half are reserved for the participating schools. Yet the NCAA men's tourney sells out.

And if the BCS were abolished WHY exactly would the alternative be the previous pre-determined bowl pairings, rather than a playoff ? Something smells.... could it be the college presidents are in a massive kick-back arangement in terms of perks or something, to continue to support a financially inferior arrangement ? Even a fool can see, that a playoff will generate FAR more money all around than the BCS "system". The TV networks have offered much more money to allow them to help implement a playoff system. So to counteract this additional money, the college presidents are somehow in cahoots with the bowls to preserve the BCS at all costs, no matter how illogical the framework, or how much money is "being left on the table".

If Mr. Perlman is any indication, this Presidentlial Oversight Committee lacks the public realtions skills to stand up to any type of scrutiny about the logic of it's arguments. Senator Hatch should ask Mr. Perlman to testify and actually ask a few well-informed follow-up questions to expose this facade that the BCS keeps putting in front of us.