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Hancock selected as BCS' first director

By RALPH D. RUSSO Associated Press
Published: 11/18/2009 2:25 AM
Last Modified: 11/18/2009 7:23 AM

NEW YORK — Defending the Bowl Championship Series and trying to convince critics that it is the best way to determine a college football champion has to qualify as one of the toughest jobs in America. Bill Hancock now has that job.

Hancock, the former director of the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, was selected Tuesday to become the first executive director of the BCS. He has been the BCS administrator since 2005, often acting as a spokesman for the conference commissioners, university presidents and bowl organizers.

Hancock will still be working for those decision-makers, but starting next year he will be the public face of the BCS.

"My feeling is that I can help people understand it," he said. "A lot of the frustration with the BCS is because people don't understand it.

"They think there is this hypothetical playoff which would just be a panacea. The fact is a playoff would be as contentious or more contentious than what we have now.

"A playoff is just not right for college football."

Hancock, who is from Hobart, graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 1972. His son, Will, was an assistant sports information director at Oklahoma State and one of 10 men associated with the basketball program who died in a plane crash in January 2001. By RALPH D. RUSSO Associated Press

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