The American Football Coaches Association has reaffirmed their support of the BCS.

American Football Coaches Association executive director Grant Teaff presented the results of a survey of all 120 Division I-A coaches during the meeting. What was found was not surprising: a majority of coaches want to keep the system the way it is.

Teaff said 73 percent of the coaches want to keep the current BCS system the way it is. He also said that 96 of the 120 coaches voted to keep transparency in the final regular-season coaches poll. And 95.7 want to maintain the final coaches poll voting the BCS champion No. 1.

Now is that 95.7 coaches or 95.7%, which would be between 115 and 114 coaches? (Most likely 114 coaches with one not voting.)

The vote to keep transparency was important because the BCS was strongly opposed to a secret ballot and might have removed the coaches from their formula without transparency. Maintaining the ties with the BCS championship in the final ballot also maintains the iconic AFCA Waterford trophy's relationship with the BCS Championship Game.

This also implies only 32 coaches want to see a change. I happen to know that eleven of those are the current head coaches of the teams that have ever been to a BCS bowl. Pete Carrol would bump this up to twelve.

The percentage in favor of a change is much higher at the top of the ranking, where the teams are more likely to feel the effects of the BCS.

Frankly, I would really like to see the survey question they were answering. Mike Leach is the only head coach I am aware of who was in favor of dispensing with the bowls. Well, former head coach. Oh, he would have made thirteen.

TCU head coach Gary patterson continues to be a favorite source of the BCS folks.

"The biggest thing as far as TCU or Boise State or Utah, what's to say that if you went to a playoff it would be any easier for us?" Patterson said. "The other thing I brought up is injury. Say you've got a guy who has a chance to be a first-round draft choice like Colt McCoy. What happens if those guys have a chance to make millions of dollars? Well, I helped you get to 12-0, but I'm going to bow out of this playoff because I have to think of my future. What's going to be the answer to that one?"

Wait. Did he just imply McCoy CHOSE to sit out the National Championship Game?