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Coalition to Meet with BCS February 5, 2004 The Coalition for Athletics Reform will meet with the Presidential Oversight Committee of the BCS on Sunday, Feb. 29 in Miami. The meeting will take place at the Fontainebleau Hilton Hotel starting in the early afternoon and is expected to last several hours. New approaches to post-season play in Division I-A football will be discussed. Representing the Coalition will be Scott S. Cowen, president of Tulane University; Kermit Hall, president of Utah State University; Stephen Weber, president of San Diego State University; John Welty, president of Fresno State University; John Peters, president of Northern Illinois University; and Gerald Turner, president of Southern Methodist University. "After our joint meeting on Nov. 16 in New Orleans, the presidents from both groups agreed to hire consultants to explore various more equitable approaches to post-season play in Division I-A football. We agreed to return in 90 days to share our findings and that is the purpose of the meeting," says Cowen. A news conference is tentatively scheduled for 6 p.m. following the presidents' meeting. The meeting is the third in a series that began Sept. 8 in Chicago when the Coalition presidents first met with their BCS counterparts. For more information on that meeting and the second meeting in the series, which was held Nov. 16, visit http://coalition.tulane.edu |