10 recruiting class 2010 according to Scout

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The picture you see above is of Ari Fleischer, who the BCS has hired to, ahem, "protect and defend" their system.The headline you see above is what I asked myself all of last night as the Fiesta Bowl matchup between Texas Christian University and Boise State was announced.To me, the Fiesta Bowl was an obvious BCS cop-out to keep a BCS conference team from being beaten by a Mountain West or Western Athletic Conference team, even though it happens every year in the regular season. Hey, at least Cincinnati gets to play Florida, and TCU and Boise get to play each other. Talk about fair matchups.So, why does the BCS continue to existIt exists for money. They've got one thing on their mind and one thing onlygreed.It exists to, quite simply, create controversy. The BCS wants people to have an opinion on the bowl games, and believe me, they're getting some strong opinions out of the bowl matchups announced yesterday.It exists because a playoff, according to the BCS, would be the equivalent to the apocalypse.It exists because we have people like Fleischer, who couldn't even defend George Bush properly, that can't defend the BCS.It exists because we're the ones who go to the games.It exists because we're the ones who watch the games.It exists because we careabout the games.It exists because with a playoff, you wouldn't get to see absolute shams like this.It exists because no matter how much hate the game gets, it most likely will end up selling out or come close to it.It exists because these bowls are "ratings winners." Explain to me again how Georgia Tech-Iowa and TCU-Boise will have big viewershipIt exists for the power conferences, not for the "little kid" conferences like the Mountain West, the Sun Belt, the WAC, etc.It exists because the BCS is a "friend" to the Mountain West and all other mid-major conferences Read between the lines. The BCS and the Mountain West are friends just like Neil Page and Del Griffith were friends for the first twenty minutes of Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. While I am sure that everyone out there is aware of the impending meeting between administrators from the University of Notre Dame and current Cincinnati head coach Brian Kelly (thanks to Twitter), here is a link to an article about another candidate who will be in New York this week for an interview .Thats right, Jim Harbaugh .I have to say, based on the way Brian Kelly is handling this whole situation, he hasnt won me over.Sure, he just finished an undefeated regular season...in the Big East.

And what happened to that defense down the stretch Not exactly awe inspiring. The whole thing reminds me a bit of one of your buddies who scored a chick way too hot for him and wont shut up about it.I must say, I can really get into the idea of Harbaugh coaching in South Bend. Putting aside the memories of the last Stanford coach hired by Notre Dame, lets examine the case.First, he is a Midwestern guy. 10 recruiting class (2010) according to Scout .Fourth, he has instilled a fundamentally sound, run first, smash mouth offense at a school that has historically been labeled as having a finesse offense.Finally, both during his playing days at Michigan and as a coach at Stanford, I think he knows a thing or two about playing Notre Dame. He can use that knowledge (as an outsider) to inspire, instill, and reignite the winning instinct in the Fighting Irish. . BOXFORD, Mass.(Business Wire)Iatric Systems, Inc., a provider of software and interface solutions for thehealthcare industry, today introduced a special endowment to provide a hospitalin need with an enterprise-wide patient privacy and security auditing solution -Security Audit Manager (SAM). Ensuring privacy of patient records is fast becoming a leading challenge forhospital Chief Information Officers (CIOs).