http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=3434062&campaign=rss&source=NCFHeadlines

WALNUT CREEK, Calif. -- The Pac-10's Tom Hansen, the longest-tenured Division-I conference commissioner in the country, will retire next summer after 26 years on the job.

"When I started there in the 1960s, it was the Pac-5, Pac-6, then Pac-8," Hansen said in a phone interview Monday. "Then, in 1978, the Arizonas came in. I've seen it grow so much."

Hansen said,
"And I'm very proud of my work in developing the BCS, which is a tremendous success for college football to strengthen the regular season and preserve the bowl season that is very important to many Division-I institutions in the NCAA. It has been a real positive development for college football."


What effect will this have on playoffs/bowls?
Also, do you think this may increase the possibility of seeing a Pac 12? Who hires his replacement?

jeremygeorge wrote:

What effect will this have on playoffs/bowls?
Also, do you think this may increase the possibility of seeing a Pac 12? Who hires his replacement?

Very little will change. Hansen worked to serve the University Presidents and his replacement will do the same. It's the University Presidents who do not want a playoff.

Most of the Presidents in the Pac-10 like the Rose Bowl and the history of the Bowls. Bowls to them is synonymous with College football and the PAC-6-8-10. Lose the bowls and you lose a little history in there eyes.

It's a lot in the money. The less they have to share the more they get to keep. The more they get to keep, especially compared to the other conferences, the better the chance they have to stay on top.

There appears to be no real reason why they should either expand or share. Why would they want to share the cash cow?

Maybe Craig Thompson will apply.........

SenorCougar wrote:

Maybe Craig Thompson will apply.........:blink:

I think after Thompson finally gets fired he will become one of those sideline guys that holds up the down markers or chains...