Letter to Bronco Students

April 5, 2010
Boise State University
1910 University Drive
Boise, Idaho 83725


Dear Bronco,
Thank you for reading my letter. I am visiting your community today to discuss President Kustra’s call for BCS Reform and a comprehensive analysis of the Kennedy Proposal’s abstract.

January 8th, 2010, President Kustra announced that he would like to see Reform of the BCS because the system is “unfair in its access, governance, and revenue distribution.” Since that time, the United States Justice Department has announced they may be “studying the benefits, costs, and feasibility of a playoff system”, Senator Baucus (D-MT) joined the Bi-Partisan effort, and AFCA has announced the coaches continue to support the BCS.

The Governance—which now includes a presidential member from each conference—has launched a Twitter account, Facebook, and created a “Playoff Problem” website. Executive Director Hancock is employed as the public face of the organization. Despite the “BCS is the greatest thing ever created” propaganda, the following statement is fact and truth: “there really is no consensus among hypothetical playoff advocates”. We have yet to decide which “playoff” should be implemented.

I drafted my proposal last year and continued to develop its strength in order to gain what is truly needed—support. The comprehensive analysis of the Kennedy Proposal is to gage how much information the reader can obtain and explain on a single piece of paper without reading the full length 42 page proposal. I look forward to hearing your thoughts and encouraging the Bronco community to get involved in the multi-game playoff debate by reading, (re)Tweeting, Facebooking, etc.

The Kennedy Proposal is a ten team, 13-game, double elimination tournament. All mini-playoff games will be played at the highest remaining seed. Four teams, matching seeds (7) vs. (10) and (8) vs. (9), will compete on the second Saturday in December. The winners will advance and continue as in an eight team model. The eight teams that do not advance to the national championship will compete in traditional BCS bowls. The Non-BCS Bowls will continue in their present form.


God Bless,

Brandon E. Kennedy