May 24, 2010 - Arent Fox partner Alan Fishel, who represents the Mountain West Conference and Boise State University, was interviewed by Sports Illustrated college football columnist Andy Staples on the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) ranking system and the possibility of NCAA football instituting a playoff system:

‘This past year, the Mountain West sent TCU to the Fiesta Bowl and received $9.8 million. The WAC sent Boise State to the Fiesta Bowl and received $7.8 million. Conference USA, the MAC and the Sun Belt, which did nothing, received $2.8, $2.1 and $1.5 million, respectively. At the BCS meetings last month, Hancock said that split was the will of those conferences. Balderdash, said Alan Fishel, the Arent Fox attorney who represents the Mountain West and Boise State. "The BCS has created that fiction," Fishel said.’