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Coaches recommend tweaks to BCS format
By Jack Carey, USA TODAY

After a season of controversy in which the No. 1 team in the final regular-season polls was left out of the Bowl Championship Series' title game, Division I-A football coaches Wednesday recommended the BCS modify its system to give more weight to the human element of the BCS formula.

Meeting as part of the American Football Coaches Association convention in Orlando, they also said they want the current bowl system kept intact and voted against recommending a playoff or a post-bowl one-game championship. The coaches also recommended that more access to BCS bowls be given to leagues that are not currently among the six BCS conferences (Atlantic Coast, Big Ten, Big 12, Southeastern, Pacific-10 and Big East).

All 77 I-A coaches present (out of a total of 117) recommended the BCS make the "human" polls count more. Southern California was first at the end of the regular season in the USA TODAY/ESPN Coaches Poll and Associated Press media rankings but finished third in the BCS formula, which equally incorporates the polls, computer ratings, a team's strength of schedule and record.

Thirty-seven coaches who vote in the poll ranked the Trojans No. 1 on Dec. 6, but the AFCA is mandated to award its national championship to the winner of the BCS title game.

Three coaches still voted for USC in the final poll, and the snafu left the coaches in an uncomfortable position. Ideally, the coaches want to see the No. 1 team guaranteed a spot in the BCS title game.

"Never, ever, as long I live do we want to go through that (again)," said AFCA executive director Grant Teaff.

USC won the Rose Bowl and took the AP's national title; LSU won the BCS version in the Nokia Sugar Bowl.

Teaff said the recommendations will be discussed with BCS officials in the next two months.

Should all these coaches resign too?

The LIBERAL writers slant the news to read what they prefer. They do it in EVERYTHING (except this according to you). The writers want their opinion to count more than it should.

Again, would you argue so strongly if the position was reversed. You would not.

Let me translate this for you.

After a season of controversy in which the No. 1 team in the final regular-season polls was left out of the Bowl Championship Series' title game, Division I-A football coaches Wednesday recommended the BCS modify its system to give more weight to the human element of the BCS formula.

equals: Coaches and writers think their opinion should count more NEXT year.

Why would they argue for less?