Today's Paper Chase will be abridged, and we'll then convene after Memorial Day. But two main topics continue to play out in this space.
First, congratulations to Bobcat offensive lineman Mike Person, who found a new home by successfully transitioning to left tackle this spring. He lands in Craig Haley's top 10 FCS offensive linemen lsit, and deservedly so. The Bobcats may be a little thin up front for Rob Ash's taste in terms of numbers, but the group is unquestionably talented, and Person is its leader.
National college football writer Tony Barnhart asks the most pointed and telling question of the entire conference realignment debate: who ever said the BCS was designed to be fair? The interesting nugget contained therein is that if things proceed as they are for the next couple of seasons, the Mountain West is expected to land a spot within the BCS structure in 2012. Meanwhile, Will C. Holden of the Chronicle wonders aloud why the Big Sky can't poach a small handful of schools from other leagues and form a 14-team superconference. When you stand back and admire the scheme, it's a thing of beauty. When you look more closely at the details, it becomes messy.
But that discussion, apparently, is for tomorrow. Today's topic, as usual with Will, is provocative outside-the-box thinking.
One person familiar with such talk is Bobcat football coach Rob Ash. He was not only intricately involved in the formation of the Pioneer League while serving in the same capacity at Drake, but he came up with the name for that conference. Ash said that while coaches are all keenly aware of the rumblings, they -- at least the ones he met with at the recent AFCA meetings in Scottsdale, Ariz. -- played things "pretty close to the vest."
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