USAToday reporting that Orrin Hatch is apparently at it again.He reportedly has sent a letter to President Obama asking for a Justice Department investigation of the BCS.Link at http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/ ... -bcs_N.htm

Blog article by John Feinstein in response to news article regarding the BCS considering changing coordinator criteria at http://feinsteinonthebrink.com/index.ph ... 9167892944

Bravo, John Feinstein.

Tute79,thanks for the post.

LATimes piece asking if the "fix is in" for the top BCS schools at http://www.statesman.com/sports/content ... ptcol.html

Article out of Boise with comments from WAC Commish Karl Benson.Apparently the WAC will hire a PR firm to try and help BSU get a BCS slot this year.
Also,BSU is apparently having trouble lining up a "road" OOC game for 2011. What's up with that?
Link at http://www.idahostatesman.com/boisestat ... 60289.html

Article out of Houston discussing Congressional pressure to change the BCS.Link at http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/spo ... 12367.html

As anticipated,the BCS has appointed it's current administrator as executive director,effective in January,to take the place of conference commissioners.Dennis Dodd comments on this at http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootbal ... e-director

Link to BCS Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Inside-th ... 8135432288

The rotating chairmanship of the BCS was due to pass from John Swofford (ACC) to the new head of the Big East John Marinatto.

I'm guessing John wanted no part of having to defend both:
a) the existence of the BCS, and it's exclusionary structure and selection criteria, and
b) his own conference's automatic bid, which is constantly under attack from the MWC publicity machine (even though right now Cincy and Pitt are BOTH in the top 8-10, depending on who's poll you like).

Given that, it made a lot of sense for the BCS to hand the job of being it's "public face" over to an individual not associated with a specific conference. Constantly re-applying lipstick to this pig (the BCS) is a full-time job !!!!

Tute79,thanks for the post.

ESPN reporting that BCS has hired PR firm apparently for "lipstick application purposes" at http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=4677927

In an apparent victory for the MWC the BCS has recently announced that the BCS Presidential Oversight Committee will be expanded to include a representative from each of the non-AQ conferences.This was one of several MWC demands made earlier this year.Link at http://www.bcsfootball.org/cfb/story/10 ... up-expands

Well that's certainly interesting....

SO this press release would have you believe that all the FBS teams (save Army and Navy) now have representation !
Do the 5 non-automatic-qualifiers have voting priveleges ? Or is this all just a lame P.R. move (why do I expect it is the latter ?)

Of course, any vote about expanding opportunity for the non-BCS conferences will end up 7-5, with the haves out-numbering the have-nots. So is this effectively "token representation" ?

The MAC, Sun-Belt, C-USA, MWC, and WAC actually ARE parties to the BCS Agreement, however at least the WAC and MWC agreed "under duress / protest".

I would be more likely to buy into this being a "democracy", if the haves and have-nots were not so polarized, and the have-nots were not being "controlled" as a voting minority. What would happen if CUSA split (thus earning an extra representative), and some FCS "move-ups" fromed a conference and demanded a representative ? Suddenly the numbers skew.... At that point, the MWC would have to be admitted, on the condition that they consistently vote with the "haves".

Tute79,thanks for the post.

Article discussing the SBC position regarding having a representative sit on the BCS Presidential Oversight Committee.Link at http://www.wkuherald.com/2009/12/04/ran ... -committee

And Notre Dame sits on it with the equivalent vote of a 12-team major conference. Strip that, let independents have a seat of which ND can rotate with Army and Navy. That is, if the 5 current non-BCS conferences are represented.
It'll never be equal, even the top conferences vary in size. However, all can have some voice at the Presidental oversight level. Maybe proportion votes based on conference level and size.

it kinda confused me at this part:

BCS Executive Director Bill Hancock said he felt it was necessary for all conferences to have a say in the committee’s decisions because of recent success by schools from non-automatic qualifying conferences, including Texas Christian of Conference USA and Boise State of the Mountain West Conference.

TCU is not a current member of the C-usa and boise state has never been a member of the moutain west. it's a good thing that all conferances have thier say but it's said that the BCS executive director doesn't know what college is were or the writer dosn't.

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