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COLLEGE FOOTBALL - PLAYOFFS VS. BCS
Last updated on: 4/6/2010 6:23:04 PM PST College Football - Playoffs vs. BCS Home Page > Source Biographies > >Bill Hancock

Bill Hancock Biography

Title: Executive Director of the BCS
Position: Con to the question "Should College Football Replace the Bowl Championship Series (BCS)
with a Playoff System?
"
Reasoning:
"Before the formation of the BCS, the Associated Press's No. 1 and No. 2 teams met in bowl games only eight times in 56 seasons. In contrast, since the conferences created the BCS 12 years ago, the top two teams have played every year if you use the BCS measurements and nine times if you go by the AP poll. The BCS is the best format ever devised to match up the nation's top two teams in a bowl game."
"A College Football Playoff Would Increase Problems," US News and World Report, Dec. 31, 2009
Theoretical Expertise Ranking:  Experts
Individuals with PhDs or equivalent advanced degrees in fields relevant to sports policy. Also top-level government officials (such as foreign leaders, US presidents, Founding Fathers, Supreme Court Justices, members of legislative bodies, cabinet members, military leaders, etc.) with positions relevant to college football legislation.
Involvement and Affiliations:
  • Executive Director, BCS, 2009-present
  • BCS Administrator, 2005-2009
  • Inducted into CoSIDA (College Sports Information Directors of America) Hall of Fame, 2005
  • Named 23rd on list of "50 Most Influential People in College Basketball" by St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 2005
  • Recipient, Service to Basketball award, New England Sports Hall of Fame, 2004
  • Director, Final Four ("March Madness") NCAA basketball tournament, 1989-2002
  • Recipient, Katha Quinn award, presented by the United States Basketball Writers Association, 1999
  • Recipient, Outstanding Journalism Graduate, University of Oklahoma, 1995
  • Assistant Commissioner, Big Eight Conference, 1983-1989
  • Media-Relations Director, Big Eight Conference, 1978-1983
  • Editor, Hobart Democrat-Chief (daily newspaper run by his family), 1974-1978
  • Education:
  • BA, Journalism, University of Oklahoma, 1972
  • Other:
  • Has run 15 marathons and has ridden a bicycle across the United States twice
  • Served as a volunteer on the United States Olympic Committee staff at nine Olympic games and two Pan American games
  • Served as the first full-time director of the Final Four, and the first ever Executive Director of the BCS
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