I really hate Tom Hansen

For those of you aren’t as obsessed with college football as I am, Tom Hansen is the commissioner of the Pac-10.

The Sporting News is reporting that Hansen is against the plus-one idea that other conference commissioners are embracing and threatening to leave the BCS over it. (The plus-one idea would let all the BCS bowl games be played, then the championship game would match-up #1 and #2 after the BCS games are over).

While a true playoff system would be better than a plus-one idea, a plus-one system is still better than we have now. Under the plus-one system, if there were three undefeated teams like there were in 2004 (USC, Oklahoma, Auburn), you could have two of them face-off in a BCS bowl game to prevent having multiple undefated teams and only one championship to give out. You could also essentially create a national semifinals if you match-up the top-4 teams against each other.

Yet Hansen, the commissioner of the BCS conference that anyone who lives east of the Rockies doesn’t care about, is threatening to pull out? What if they call his bluff over something that is a good idea anyway? That would be horrible for all of the Pac-10 schools.

This isn’t Hansen’s first bad decision — he’s the same genius that gives Pac-10 college basketball an exclusive deal with Fox Sports Net instead of ESPN, a network far fewer people watch. We’ve all seen what ESPN has done for Duke, the ACC and the Big East in hoops. Should we have the network that excels at hype get more people interested in the Pac-10? Nah, that would be too good of an idea.