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Published Thursday, March 5, 2009 | 1:07 a.m.
Updated Friday, March 6, 2009 | 1:07 a.m.
NOW
One of the criterion -- and there are a lot of them -- of the Mountain West's new proposal for inclusion into the Bowl Championship Series is a conference would qualify for an automatic bid if its teams have a winning percentage of at least .400 in games against the current automatic qualifying leagues over a two-year period.
If this proposal is ratified or Razorbacks fly, whichever comes first, you can expect to see a lot of Wyoming vs. Baylor games.
The last time I checked, 47,141 voters had responded to an ESPN.com poll asking whether they approved of the MWC's idea of an eight-team playoff. A whopping 91 percent said "yes."
The other nine percent were probably Alabama fans.
THEN
One of my favorite Mountain West football players was Bradlee Van Pelt, the former Colorado State star who played quarterback like his hair was on fire and somebody forgot to refill the fire extinguisher.
His father was Brad Van Pelt, the old Giants' middle linebacker, who wore No. 10, which is a strange number for a middle linebacker. The only reason Van Pelt was allowed to wear No. 10, his college number at Michigan State, and not No. 50-59, as per NFL policy then, was that he was listed as the Giants' back-up kicker.
The reason I bring this up is because Brad Van Pelt died of a heart attack a couple of weeks ago. I can't believe Brad Van Pelt was 57. Or that he's gone.
The BCS is all about the money. The MWC will not, can not get included as long as the BIG MONEY is in charge.
When Penn State lost this year the talking heads let out a sigh of relief because that avoided a BCS showdown.
The last two times Utah got into the BCS system they won, and won big. But the good-old-boy system (BCS) barely acknowledged a heart beat.
When a MWC team beats a BCS team it is barely noticable, but when the opposite happens it is descibed as "predictable".
When Payne caught the game winner in AZ it was news for 2-3 hours, if that same catch was made by a BCS team it would have been a "pontiac game changer".
In the BCS the only rule they follow is "show me the money", so the MWC will continue to get the shaft instead of a BCS goldmine.
How can the people who get the $$$$$$ make the decisions on this. NCAA is a representative of public universities athletics. They should take it out of their hands.
Amen, Lenny, amen.
Can you say antitrust?
You can say anti-trust all you want.
Write in on the blackboard 500 times if it excites you.
But over a quarter century ago the courts, including the US Supreme Court, ruled that the broadcast rights of NCAA football teams are property of the respective universities.
The BCS is a creation of the universities from the major conferences with the agreement of the rest of the schools in the FBS of the NCAA.
The BCS has a provision to review automatic qualifiers into the BCS Bowls and is based on a 4 year review. The first year was the past season and the MWC did very well. But it only has won the 1st quarter.
Let's see where the MWC stands after all 4 quarters.