A 12-game season will be discussed, but I don?t have a good read on where the conferences would come out on that. It?s in the proposals for the 2006 season, but teams would have a tough time getting games in place at this date.

That?s the language that will be put in front of them, though the board may want to tweak that name. Different groups may get into it in more detail, and there may be a tweak here or there to change the nomenclature. All indications are that it will be supported.

That will be an effort not so much in selling the brand as getting people on the same page with the nomenclature. We will be informing the media what the name change is and getting the sports information, marketing, and all departments the message about what is happening. We?re hoping to get across the message that we are all Division I.

Eight seeds is probably the furthest away from going down, and its not going in front of the board specifically. It may be forced in coming years when the Northeast Conference and Great West would ramp things up. Well deal with more bracket type issues at that point.

More student-athletes would be able to travel and to dress on the field, and it would give institutions the ability to bring more people along for the playoffs and for the title game. Making a profit is an individual institutional decision, but our motivation is to help them not spend as much money and be able to celebrate the event. This will hopefully allow people to do that.

How lonely it is!
To be drowning,
in a place
where everyone can swim.