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After it was rejected, David Frohnmayer, BCS presidential oversight committee chairman, said:

“There was no overall support for the proposal, although some conferences were interested in considering certain elements of it in the future — particularly those related to revenue, access and governance of the BCS arrangement.”

According to Frohnmayer, all of the conferences and Notre Dame wrote reports in support of keeping the current post-season system. However, a large part of that may be wanting to fulfill televison contracts. Frohnmayer says that the current post-season arrangement is the best that has ever existed.

Right…

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BCS Rejects MWC’s Playoff Plan

North Carolina will ring in the new year playing Nevada in Reno tonight at 7 p.m. Pacific Standard Time. The game will likely be over by midnight on the east coast.

Reno isn’t exactly Las Vagas. It’s more like Las Vegas Jr.

This should be another double digit win for the Tar Heels. Nevada, which usually does well in the Mountain West Conference, and makes a good showing at the Big Dance is 7-5 so far this season with no quality wins.

Of course North Carolina is led by old “what’s his name” at forward who is averaging 23.1 points and 7.5 rebounds a game.

The wife and I are going out with about 25 of our friends to dinner at a sushi buffet restaurant in Huntington Beach tonight. More than likely we’ll all be too tired and too full to make it to midnight. We’ve been doing this for 12 years and it’s always a lot of fun.

Then of course beginning tomorrow there’s about 100 freaking college football bowl games on through Saturday. Since Duke isn’t playing in a bowl game, none of these games look remotely interesting to me. That means I’ll get up, get a good three to five mile run in, and sleep the rest of the day.

Hope all of you have wonderful New Year’s Eve and a great New Year.

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Tar Heels to close out 2008

Many fans of the New Mexico Lobos were thrilled when former Iowa head coach Steve Alford agreed to take over their basketball program. And if their early recruiting success is any indication, everybody else in the Mountain West Conference had better take notice.

New Mexico signed Houston shooting guard Phillip McDonald to a letter of intent and dramatically upgraded their 2008 recruiting class. McDonald is the number 87 ranked player in the Rivals.com class of 2008 and is a major coup for the Lobos.

New Mexico has never been a desired destination for top-level recruits, but it appears that Alford could be changing that in a hurry. The Pit has always been one of the toughest places to play in the country, and it could be even tougher if Alford and the Lobos coaching staff can build on their recruiting momentum.

MWC foes beware…

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Alford is making noise on the recruiting trail