RCS: With a lot of sports entities and franchises concerned about the financial crisis, how is the BCS positioned to weather this?

BH: I think everyone in the country is concerned about the crisis. There is no safe harbor and no one is immune - not in sports, so this is a situation that we have to follow and no one really knows how severe it's going to get. I think the BCS is on solid ground, not just on the TV side, on the other side our attendance in games has been up and we don't have any indication that the bowls are having difficulty selling tickets. That said, we won't really know how this will affect our fans, the schools and the participating teams for another month.

RCS: So it's safe to say that the BCS won't be setting up a big office and a staff any time soon?

BH: The commissioners believe the most appropriate way to run the BCS is to have a full-time administrator. Now that's in place, there's no need for a big staff. The bowls have big staffs and they and the conferences keep things moving. For an organization that's a 90-million-a-year operation, on a per-dollar budget basis we're spending our money very wisely. The BCS is as, if not more frugal, than any entity in sports. We won't need a bailout.