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03.04.10
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Not Much to Love about the BCS Mystery
Ohio State president Gordon Gee has offered colorful quotes over the years about college football's BCS. Weeks ago, he provided another: "[E]veryone is being rewarded in this [BCS] system, plus there's a mystery to it. I love the elegance of the mystery."
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02.25.10
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Would Playoffs Really Conflict with Exams?
Would a playoff system really "conflict with exams," as the BCS claims?
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02.23.10
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Playoff PAC--Year in Review
We are just getting started. There are ads to be run, storylines to be pushed, and legal complaints to be filed. We have no shortage of ideas. We simply need funding to turn them into reality.
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02.18.10
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BCS Enlisted Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. to Lobby
Perhaps the BCS’s oddest lobbying partner was Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., which previously broadcasted BCS bowl games through its FOX network. For added firepower, the BCS has now tapped a second team of lobbyists, Hogan & Hartson, with a retainer that paid $70,000 in just the final quarter of 2009.
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02.11.10
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Guest Blog: "Super Conference Proposal"
A “super conference” system would create a tangible, regular season playoff system where over half of the current teams in the Football Bowl Subdivision (“FBS”) could compete for a national title.
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02.04.10
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BCS's NFL Comparisons are Off-Base
How can we be satisfied with a world where BCS Executive Director Bill Hancock and his kind run around, cleverly explaining to certain kids on the wrong side of the tracks that they cannot grow up to be doctors, because . . . well, just because? Are we truly content with Mr. Hancock offering a pat on the head and a warm explanation: “Be content, young man, not every one can be a doctor, but you can have a good life, and you may even sneak into Physician’s Assistants School”?
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01.26.10
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The 24 Million Dollar Spin Job
The BCS recently released its unofficial estimate of net revenue from the 2010 BCS bowls. The report indicates that the MWC and WAC will receive a total of $24 million dollars from their participation in the BCS bowl games this year. The BCS characterized this payment as proof that the BCS is providing equal distribution and “access” to the non-automatic qualifying conferences. At first glance, the payment indeed sounds like a lot of money, but as usual, peeking behind the sticker price reveals some interesting details.
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01.04.10
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The "Separate But Equal Bowl"
Forget about the hypothetical BCS disasters that would’ve occurred if Nebraska’s kick-off specialist weren’t inebriated or if the refs hadn’t thrown a second back on the clock for Texas. The actual moment the BCS avoided Armageddon was on Selection Sunday when TCU and Boise State got stuffed into the “Separate But Equal” Bowl.
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01.01.10
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BCS: Alabama No. 1 Because “Major” Doesn’t Mean “Major”
The BCS must account for why a team that failed to play by the rules will play in Pasadena next week, and why “major” NCAA violations are somehow not “major” under the BCS system.
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12.30.09
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Debunking "Bracket Creep"
One puff of a playoff, Bill Hancock warns us, and we’ll wake up years down the road a toothless bracket addict, longing for the whimsical bowls of our youth.
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