The press releases have piled up and I keep trying to clear them, but more keep coming. It’s like rolling that rock up the hill. Right when you think you’re finished, the rock gets by me and rolls down the hill.
So, I do my best to post what I can whenever I can. From CBS College Sports, we have quotage from the Tony Barnhart Show from Tuesday.
NEWS, NOTES AND QUOTES FROM “THE TONY BARNHART SHOW” ON CBS COLLEGE SPORTS NETWORK
BCS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR BILL HANCOCK ON “THE TONY BARNHART SHOW” ON CBS COLLEGE SPORTS NETWORK
CBS COLLEGE SPORTS NETWORK’s THE TONY BARNHART SHOW, a weekly one-hour primetime college football talk show, features BCS Executive Director Bill Hancock, and former Navy and Dallas Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach, on Tuesday, Dec. 8 (9:00 PM, ET).
“Mr. College Football” Tony Barnhart hosts the show along with analyst Brian Jones. The hard-hitting program debates and analyzes the hot topics and issues facing college football both on and off-the-field. This week, Barnhart and Jones discuss the BCS pairings and go in-depth on the Fiesta Bowl match-up between Boise State and TCU.
The TONY BARNHART SHOW airs each Tuesday throughout the college football season at 9:00 PM, ET. Mike Aresco serves as Executive Producer. Tyler Hale and Stefan Van Engen produce.
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The following are excerpts from the show:
Barnhart: Why did you (the BCS) hire a PR firm?
Hancock: The fact is that our critics had the field to themselves. We were not playing, and you can’t score unless you take the field. We are football people, we’re not communications people. The Commissioner’s and President’s thought it would be best to go and get someone who is a communications expert to help convey the message, help us focus on the message, and we think it’s a good thing for us.
Barnhart: Is this a chance for the BCS to go on offense?
Hancock: It’s time for us to be on offense, and we have reacted defensively. We’re very proud of the BCS. We’re proud of what it’s accomplished, we’re proud of what it can be in the future, and we want to tell that story.
(BILL HANCOCK ON A FULL COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYOFF)
So many of the people who talk about a playoff don’t go through the detail of trying to figure out the reality of it. In reality, it’s very difficult if not impossible. Who plays? Where do you play? When do you play? And what’s to be gained by it? Just look at this week. With a four team playoff, I’d like the folks to tell me which four of those five undefeated teams would be in it. You can’t do it. And I think we trade one set of problems for another set. And I don’t think we gain anything if we went to a playoff. And neither do the Presidents, faculty, coaches and athletic directors.
(BILL HANCOCK ON A FOUR TEAM PLAYOFF)
It would not stay at four for long. In the tournament that I love, the basketball tournament, it started at eight teams and it’s now 65. And you’ve heard the talk about let’s go to 128 or let’s go to 95. It would not stay four for long, there’s no doubt about that. And like I said, which four of those five undefeated teams do you put in there this year? It’s very difficult.
And we have the preview of the season finale of Fox Sports South’s SEC Gridiron Live.
SEC Gridiron LIVE’s Bowl Preview Special
Show’s 15-Week Run Ends Wednesday at 10 p.m. ET on FOX Sports South
SEC Gridiron LIVE ends its 15-week run on Wednesday at 10 p.m. ET on FOX Sports South with a bowl preview special. Host Charles Davis and analysts David Pollack and Randy Cross break down the ten bowl games featuring SEC squads, including an in-depth analysis of No. 1 Alabama’s showdown with No. 2 Texas in the BCS National Championship Game. Bowl games featuring SEC squads include:
· Kentucky vs. Clemson – Music City Bowl
· Texas A&M vs. Georgia – Independence Bowl
· Virginia Tech vs. Tennessee – Chick-fil-A Bowl
· Northwestern vs. Auburn – Outback Bowl
· Penn State vs. LSU – Capital One Bowl
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Florida vs. Cincinnati – Sugar Bowl· South Carolina vs. Connecticut – PapaJohns.com Bowl
· Oklahoma State vs. Ole Miss – Cotton Bowl
· Arkansas vs. ECU – Liberty Bowl
· Texas vs. Alabama – BCS National Championship Game
The SEC Gridiron LIVE crew talks about the Heisman Trophy and whether Alabama’s Mark Ingram or Florida’s Tim Tebow will take home the honor and predicts the early favorites for SEC champions next season. Social media reporter Cassidy Hubbarth counts down the Top 5 “Plays of the Year” and interacts with fans throughout the show via Twitter, Facebook and email.
SEC Gridiron LIVE will be distributed to more than 24 million cable and satellite households on the FSN regional networks throughout the SEC territory – FOX Sports South, Sun Sports, FOX Sports Houston and FOX Sports Southwest.
One more press release post before I call it a night.
