News Nuggets, 01.08.05
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GRAPEVINE, TX While there still won't
be a playoff in the Bowl Championship Series, the system will definitely be
changed again.
Commissioners from the 11 Division I-A
conferences met for more than five hours Friday to discuss needed changes.
The meeting on the first day of the NCAA convention was only the first step.
``We just really began conversations,''
ACC commissioner John Swofford said. ``I don't think any of us had the
expectations that this would go too awfully far.''
The primary issue is determining how to
rank teams, especially the two that play for the BCS championship. This was
the commissioners' first meeting since The Associated Press last month asked
that its poll not be used in the system's formula any longer.
BCS coordinator and Big 12 commissioner
Kevin Weiberg said commissioners discussed a wide range of BCS issues. They
also talked about determining which conferences get automatic spots in the
system and the format for 2006, when a fifth BCS game is added.
``We had a productive discussion,''
Weiberg said. ``We were framing the issues, not making any decisions.''
There was no discussion of a playoff,
Weiberg said, because there is no interest from school presidents and
chancellors for such a system.
Weiberg said the BCS could look for a
suitable replacement for the AP poll in rankings or use a committee approach
similar to the one used by the NCAA to select the 65-team basketball
tournament.
Or there could be a combination of
those two approaches.
``I don't know if I heard a best idea,
but I heard a lot of thoughts,'' said Southeastern Conference commissioner
Mike Slive, who is more open-minded to a committee approach since the AP
poll has to be replaced.
Big East commissioner Mike Tranghese,
the past BCS chairman, has championed the idea of a selection committee. He
left early to catch a flight home, referring questions to Weiberg.
The BCS formula had been streamlined
this season to put heavy emphasis on the two human polls, the AP and the
ESPN/USA Today coaches poll. Six computer rankings are also part of the
formula.
If the system moved ahead with just the
coaches poll, Weiberg said he would be concerned if the coaches continue to
keep their votes private.
``The transparency issue is one of our
most important,'' Weiberg said. ``That would put us is a position to have
some level of discomfort moving forward.''
The American Football Coaches
Association is expected to discuss that issue when it begins its convention
Sunday in Louisville, KY. Coaches voted last month against releasing their
final ballots.
The I-A commissioners aren't expected
to meet again until April, but may not make any final decisions then.
``Our goal is to get to April with a
pretty firm direction,'' Weiberg said.
Weiberg said a committee approach to
the BCS would be different than that of basketball, which uses a 10-person
committee of conference commissioners and athletic directors to set the
65-team field at the end of the regular season. He envisions a committee
meeting several times through the season.
``We did not get into the details, but
I think there is interest in it,'' Weiberg said. ``We realize a lot of the
same issues apply.''
In the same way that coaches and media
have voted on polls, a committee would have to rank teams. Determining who
votes and the criteria they would use remain issues.
This was the seventh year of the BCS.
This season, five teams two from non-BCS conferences went into the
postseason undefeated.
No. 1 Southern California won the BCS
championship and completed its undefeated season with a 55-19 win over No. 2
Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl. No. 3 Auburn also finished 13-0, beating
Virginia Tech in the Sugar Bowl.
Mountain West Conference champion Utah
was the first BCS outsider to play in one of the four big-money bowls,
winning over Pittsburgh in the Fiesta Bowl. Western Athletic Conference
champion Boise State had to settle for the Liberty Bowl, and lost its first
game to Louisville.
Notre Dame is also part of the BCS, but
athletic director Kevin White was unable to attend Friday's meeting because
of a football recruiting weekend on the South Bend campus.
List of NCAA Division I-A coaching changes
BRIGHAM YOUNG Gary Crowton (resigned),
Bronco Mendenhall
EAST CAROLINA John Thompson (resigned), Skip Holtz
FLORIDA Ron Zook (fired), Urban Meyer
ILLINOIS Ron Turner (fired), Ron Zook
INDIANA Gerry DiNardo (fired), Terry Hoeppner
LOUISIANA STATE Nick Saban (resigned), Les Miles
MIAMI (OH) Terry Hoeppner (resigned), Shane Montgomery
MISSISSIPPI David Cutcliffe (fired), Ed Orgeron
NEW MEXICO STATE Tony Samuel (fired), Hal Mumme
NOTRE DAME Tyrone Willingham (fired), Charlie Weis
OHIO Brian Knorr (fired), Frank Solich
OKLAHOMA STATE Les Miles (resigned), Mike Gundy
PITTSBURGH Walt Harris (resigned), Dave Wannstedt
SAN JOSE STATE Fitz Hill (resigned), Dick Tomey
SOUTH CAROLINA Lou Holtz (retired), Steve Spurrier
STANFORD Buddy Teevens (fired), Walt Harris
SYRACUSE Paul Pasqualoni (fired)
NEVADA-LAS VEGAS John Robinson (retired), Mike Sanford
UTAH Urban Meyer (resigned), Kyle Whittingham
UTAH STATE Mick Dennehy (fired), Brent Guy
WASHINGTON Keith Gilbertson (resigned), Tyrone Willingham
WESTERN MICHIGAN Gary Darnell (fired), Bill Cubit
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