1. Tre'Von Willis' Suspension Shows UNLV's Embarrassing Rule of Thumb

    UNLV guard Tre’Von Willis pleaded no contest to misdemeanor battery-domestic violence on Tuesday. Both head coach Lon Kruger and the senior star offered the right kind of quotes for ...

    Greg Welch Written by Greg Welch about over 1 year ago 527 reads 3 comments

  2. Pac-10 Expansion: Signs of Innovation or Panic?

    Since inviting Colorado, Texas, Texas Tech, Texas A&M, Oklahoma, and Oklahoma State to the PAC-10, new commissioner Larry Scott has been branded a visionary, a genius, and the quintessential “smartest guy in the room...

    Greg Welch Written by Greg Welch about over 1 year ago 338 reads 2 comments

  3. Pac-10's Expansion Question and the Hard Numbers

    What will be worth more to television executives: the Mormons or the city of Denver? Sometime in the next six months a sports marketing company or consultant in an expensive conference room will try to answer that question for the Pac-10...

    Greg Welch Written by Greg Welch about 2 years ago 1,213 reads 20 comments

  4. Why Not Fitting in Culturally in the Pac-10 Is BYU's Best Asset

    In his well-covered teleconference statement, Pac-10 commissioner Larry Scott said that the primary factor when considering expansion candidates would be finding schools that fit into the conference culturally and academically...

    Greg Welch Written by Greg Welch about 2 years ago 1,270 reads 13 comments

  5. Adding Boise State Solidifies the Mountain West's Case for an Automatic BCS Bid

    After two years of a four-year evaluation period, the Mountain West is playing well enough to earn an automatic bid to BCS bowl games in two of the three evaluated categories...

    Greg Welch Written by Greg Welch about 2 years ago 1,446 reads 8 comments

  6. Boise State May Force Its Way into Mountain West with BCS Numbers

    Every school that is not part of a BCS conference has one goal: become part of a BCS conference. So far, the only way schools have found to get in is to exit Conference USA for the greener pastures of the Big East...

    Greg Welch Written by Greg Welch about over 2 years ago 672 reads 7 comments

  7. Vauge and Missunderstood Rules at the Heart of the BCS Problem

    The Senate's biggest BCS critic missed the heart of the problem in yesterday's BCS hearings. While asking about the fairness of the BCS, Senator Hatch was surprised to learn from the BCS' lawyer ...

    Greg Welch Written by Greg Welch about over 2 years ago 148 reads 1 comments

  8. Mountain West Asks for Sweeping BCS Changes

    The Mountain West conference unveiled its proposed changes to the BCS rules this afternoon and asked to move the burden decisions made within the BCS from the hands of the pollsters to the players on the field...

    Greg Welch Written by Greg Welch about almost 3 years ago 150 reads 0 comments

  9. Mountain West Making Strong Case for BCS Auto-Bids

    The BCS has a website. It's got all kinds of interesting tidbits on it. On it you can find ratings for past games and future game schedules, as well as this gem: "The BCS isn't an entity; it ...

    Greg Welch Written by Greg Welch about 3 years ago 197 reads 4 comments

  10. Low Attendance Threatens FBS Status for Some College Football Teams

    Somewhere deep in the bowels of NCAA.org there's a page describing the differences between the divisions it makes for college programs...

    Greg Welch Written by Greg Welch about over 3 years ago 3,936 reads 2 comments

  11. ESPN Takes Washington Huskies vs. BYU Call and Loss Awfully Hard

    Leading Saturday's College Football Live telecast tonight was the story about the officiating at the end of the BYU-Washington football game...

    Greg Welch Written by Greg Welch about over 3 years ago 8,963 reads 95 comments

  12. January Madness: Finding a College Football Playoff That Works

    Surveys of college football fans have found upwards of 90 percent would like to see a playoff in college football. The only problem comes when the type of playoff is specified—then the support doesn’t stay as consolidated...

    Greg Welch Written by Greg Welch about over 3 years ago 406 reads 5 comments

  13. Pac-10: An Exhaustive Examination of Expansion Options

    The Pac-10 is currently looking for a new commissioner. Outgoing commissioner Tom Hansen has been a famous football traditionalist, resisting the BCS, conference basketball tournaments, and conference expansion...

    Greg Welch Written by Greg Welch about over 3 years ago 7,572 reads 36 comments