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News Nuggets, 07.26.05
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BCS faces challenge from shadow poll of VIP's
A dozen retired coaches with
impressive resumes have agreed to take part in a new college football poll
that the organizer hopes to unveil in late September.
Former East Carolina and Auburn coach
Pat Dye is among those who have participated in discussions about the
renegade rankings.
Ideally, the Master Coaches
Survey will have 15 or 16 voters, who will be provided game films of the top
teams, said Andy Curtin, an Atlanta-based lawyer and former sports agent who
came up with the idea after watching last season's Orange Bowl.
Southern California beat
Oklahoma 55-19 in the Bowl Championship Series title game. The mismatch
spurred Curtin into action.
``After that debacle last year
in the championship game, I started thinking about what was wrong in the
method of selecting teams,'' Curtin said Monday in a phone interview.
Curtin met with 14 former
coaches last week to discuss his idea: John Cooper (Ohio State), Vince
Dooley (Georgia), Pat Dye (Auburn and East Carolina), LaVell Edwards (BYU),
Hayden Fry (Iowa), Don James (Washington), Frank Kush (Arizona State), Dick
MacPherson (Syracuse), Bill Mallory (Indiana), Don Nehlen (West Virginia),
John Ralston (Stanford), John Robinson (USC), R.C. Slocum (Texas A&M) and
Gene Stallings (Alabama).
The coaches
attended the meeting in Georgia on July 17.
Curtin said Bo Schembechler
(Michigan), George Welsh (Virginia) and Terry Donahue (UCLA) have also
expressed interest in being part of the panel. The group includes 11 coaches
voted into the College Football Hall of Fame.
Curtin said 12 coaches have
already committed to take part in the poll, but would not identify them.
Last year the BCS formula used
The Associated Press media poll, the coaches' poll and a compilation of six
computer rankings to determine which teams played for the national title.
Each element counted for one-third of team's BCS grade.
The AP asked the BCS to stop
using its poll after last season, and the BCS recently announced the
creation of a replacement poll, which will use a panel of 114 former
coaches, players and administrators, plus some media members.
Curtin presented his idea to
BCS officials in March, but they passed on his proposal.
Coaches participating in the
Master Coaches Survey would participate in a conference call or round-table
during the week to discuss their opinions, then vote on a top 25, Curtin
said.
Curtin's plan is to have the
poll released Wednesday nights during a television show with the coaches,
who will be made available for questions on how the teams were ranked.
He has hired a marketing firm,
hoping to draw interest from a television network, possibly ESPN or College
Sports Television, to air the show and help pay the coaches for their work.
Curtin proposed a fee of about
$60,000 per year for the coaches when he went to the BCS.
``You would not believe how
well informed these guys are when we met last week,'' he said. ``They know
the current teams and players. One of the coaches has three TV's in his
basement and watches nine games a week.''
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published by ECU, Conference USA and its member
schools; and reports from Associated Press and
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