The BCS and Twitter.....

The BCS is one of, if not the, most controversial thing in all of sports today. Now, the general public can communicate with the BCS, in a way. BCS executive producer Bill Hancock has launched a facebook page for the BCS and a Twitter account, Inside the BCS, to communicate with college football fans through each of these different technologies. For anyone that does not know, the BCS stands for the Bowl Championship Series and it is the system that is used to help determine the top bowl games in college football as well as helping to determine the college football national champion. It is largely controversial because Division I college football uses it and this is the only sport that uses a computer system, the BCS, to help determine its champion instead of playing out the championship on the field in a playoff-like system, similar to every other professional and collegiate sport. With the BCS being involved in different technologies such as Twitter and Facebook, it gives the general public the opportunity to discuss the BCS and how it works with the people who are behind it and responsible for the system. This use of these social technologies by the BCS can be very useful to fans who may have questions about the system or even to fans who just plain old despise the system......like myself......