AggieWill
04-26-2005, 04:11 PM
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/spt/stories/042605dnspobcslede.21378a725.html
PHOENIX – Armed with a PowerPoint presentation and his Rolodex, Steve Hatchell showed Division I-A conference commissioners Monday how a new top 25 poll could be constructed and inserted into the Bowl Championship Series formula for next season.
Hatchell, the president of the National Football Foundation and College Football Hall of Fame, Inc., said his plan includes selecting 25 former college coaches and five former athletic administrators from five regions of the country.
The five coaches and one administrator in each region would compile a single ballot, and then all five ballots would be tabulated, Hatchell said. The final poll would then go into the BCS formula in place of the Top 25, which was pulled by The Associated Press after last season.
Hatchell said he considered this the best of three options the National Football Foundation presented to BCS officials Monday at the Royal Palms Resort and Spa. BCS coordinator Kevin Weiberg said conference commissioners have more questions about creating a new poll and whether that's truly the direction they should go.
"I just think that there are other things we have to think through rather than whether you can have a panel of voters and create a new poll," Weiberg said.
Weiberg said conference commissioners are examining what kind of credibility any new poll would have regardless of who assembled it – the NFF or the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics.
NACDA also pitched its ideas for a new poll. It's believed that poll would lean more on administrators than coaches. Weiberg would not outline any of the proposals.
PHOENIX – Armed with a PowerPoint presentation and his Rolodex, Steve Hatchell showed Division I-A conference commissioners Monday how a new top 25 poll could be constructed and inserted into the Bowl Championship Series formula for next season.
Hatchell, the president of the National Football Foundation and College Football Hall of Fame, Inc., said his plan includes selecting 25 former college coaches and five former athletic administrators from five regions of the country.
The five coaches and one administrator in each region would compile a single ballot, and then all five ballots would be tabulated, Hatchell said. The final poll would then go into the BCS formula in place of the Top 25, which was pulled by The Associated Press after last season.
Hatchell said he considered this the best of three options the National Football Foundation presented to BCS officials Monday at the Royal Palms Resort and Spa. BCS coordinator Kevin Weiberg said conference commissioners have more questions about creating a new poll and whether that's truly the direction they should go.
"I just think that there are other things we have to think through rather than whether you can have a panel of voters and create a new poll," Weiberg said.
Weiberg said conference commissioners are examining what kind of credibility any new poll would have regardless of who assembled it – the NFF or the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics.
NACDA also pitched its ideas for a new poll. It's believed that poll would lean more on administrators than coaches. Weiberg would not outline any of the proposals.