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Stokes adds pedigreed staffer
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What's in a name?
For the East Carolina basketball
program, it's a new Director of Basketball Operations with the last name of
Shyatt.
ECU coach Ricky Stokes has put the
finishing touch on his first-year basketball staff with the hiring of Jeremy
Shyatt, the oldest son of former Clemson coach Larry Shyatt. The elder
Shyatt is currently an assistant coach at Florida.
Jeremy Shyatt spent the past two
seasons as a volunteer assistant on the staff of Coach Dave Odom at South
Carolina. The Gamecocks recently captured the 2005 NIT championship.
Stokes noted Shyatt's basketball genes
in a Wednesday news release announcing the appointment.
"We're very excited to have Jeremy
complete our staff," stated Stokes. " As the son of a coach, he's grown up
around college basketball and has a good understanding of everything that is
involved with it. Jeremy has a great basketball mind and gets along well
with players. He did an outstanding job at South Carolina and I expect he'll
do the same with all the many hats we'll ask him to wear."
While on the USC staff, Shyatt pursued
a Masters degree in advertising at the school. He enrolled at USC after
earning a Bachelors degree in marketing from Clemson in 2003.
"I'm absolutely thrilled to be a part
of the coaching staff here at ECU," said Shyatt. "I've only heard great
things about ECU and I'm very excited to have the opportunity to work here.
I think I've gotten the best of both worlds; a great place to live and great
coaches to work alongside."
Shyatt earned a varsity letter as a
freshman on his father's Clemson team in 1999-2000. The following season he
became a student assistant coach.
He served as Director of Boys and Girls
Summer Day Camps with the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers the past three years.
Shyatt's hiring completes a Stokes
regime that includes associate head coach Mack McCarthy and assistant
coaches Chris Ferguson and Larry Dixon.
BCS honchos once again wrestle title formula
NEW YORK Bowl Championship Series
officials are set to meet in Phoenix next week, again faced with the task of
coming up with a new way to determine which teams will play for a national
title.
The BCS reworked its standings formula
last year, simplifying the equation and putting more emphasis on The
Associated Press Top 25 and the coaches poll. But the increased scrutiny on
poll voters and the importance of every vote spawned new controversies and
criticism.
The AP asked the BCS to stop using its
poll after last season, leaving the BCS in need of another component to
insert into its calculations. The AP media poll and coaches poll each
counted for one-third of a team's points in the BCS standings last year. A
compilation of computer rankings made up the final third.
BCS officials were generally pleased
with the scaled-down formula and would prefer not straying far from it this
year.
``There was a comfort level with nature
of the formula,'' BCS coordinator and Big 12 commissioner Kevin Weiberg said
Tuesday in a phone interview.
But that would mean creating another
poll to take the spot occupied by the AP, and where that poll would come
from is one of the items on the agenda next week.
``We know we have a coaches poll and
computer poll folks who have worked with us in the past, but we have not
eliminated any options,'' Weiberg said.
Introducing a selection committee made
up of former college football administrators and coaches possibly even
some media members into the process has also been discussed.
``How you populate a committee or a
poll for that matter is an important issue,'' Weiberg said. ``Under a
committee approach, you probably need fewer participants than you do in a
poll structure.''
It's unlikely the BCS would convert to
a system solely reliant on a selection committee.
``There could be a hybrid I suppose,''
Weiberg said. ``What I mean by a hybrid, you could still use elements of the
old structure coaches polls, computers, perhaps a new poll and couple
that with a committee approach and have that standings piece be out there on
a weekly basis with a committee providing oversight. Maybe a committee's
function would be voting on a 1-2 matchup at the end.
``There are a lot of different ways you
can structure it. All of them have different weaknesses and probably
different strengths.''
The next week's meetings will include
commissioners from all 11 Division I-A conferences and will run from Monday
though Thursday.
Weiberg said there's no urgency for the
BCS to complete its work by the end of those meetings.
``I do believe it's an important
meeting though in a sense that we need to have some direction as we go
forward so we can moved toward trying to finalize something in, ideally, 60
to 75 days,'' he said.
Last year, the BCS unveiled its new
formula in mid-July.
The BCS was faced with something of a
worst-case scenario last year when Southern California, Oklahoma and Auburn
all finished the regular season unbeaten.
The system, which was implemented in
1998 and has been tinkered with almost every year since, is devised to match
the consensus top two teams in the nation. USC and Oklahoma earned those
spots and played in the Orange Bowl for the BCS title last season. The
Trojans beat the Sooners to finish No. 1 and Auburn, which completed a 13-0
season in the Sugar Bowl, ended up No. 2.
Only expanding the BCS system to make
it more like a playoff would have given Auburn a chance to play for a
national title and there appears to be no chance of that happening in the
near future.
The other BCS controversy involved
Texas and California. The Longhorns passed Cal in the final BCS standings
after gaining ground for several weeks, even though the Bears were winning
their games.
The BCS, which includes the Fiesta,
Rose, Orange and Sugar Bowls, will expand to five games and 10 teams,
starting with the 2006 season. The No. 1 vs. No. 2 BCS title game will be
played a week after the bowls and rotate between the four existing sites.
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