Q: Do you think there is any chance of LeSean McCoy coming back next year?

Tim Mason, Durham, N.C.

ZEISE: Absolutely I think there is a chance he'll come back. I think there is also a chance he'll leave and I don't think, in fact I know, that he isn't really 100 percent sure what he wants to do and his coaches are right now holding their breath because they are still not convinced he is really staying. The coaches did some checking for him, it seems clear he'll be a middle to late first round pick -- so if he does come back there is some room for him to improve his stock -- but he could also not improve or do worse -- so it is a gamble either way. It is clear he loves college life and he loves playing for Pitt -- so those are things in favor of him staying and hopefully he looks at those things and decides he wants another year (it is a lot of fun to cover a great player so selfishly, I'd like to write about him for another year). But all of these things will be considered by him and his family and the coaches and he'll, I'm sure, come up with a final answer soon enough.

Q: When should the campaign for LeSean McCoy for Heisman next year start? Since he is committed and the quarterback situation is what it is, he should get 25 to 30 carries a game next year, which(barring the poor start he had this year) should lead to big yards.

Sean O'Connor, Los Angeles

ZEISE: If he stays, it should start in like May or June or something, just about the time people start to get college football a little bit back on their brains. That's when the campaigns for him should start and Pitt has already made it pretty clear that if McCoy comes back there will be a Heisman campaign for him. That being said -- he needs to do his part and come out of the gate with some huge rushing totals in the early games to grab the attention of voters who might not get to see those early games.

Q: There are 119 Div I-A schools. Instead of the BCS why couldn't we have ten twelve-team conferences to determine a champion. Give the highest rated six conference champions a first round bye (or rotate the byes if you like) and then play two first round games, four second, two third and one championship. Use whichever bowls you want for these games and the remaining bowls could do what they do now. Match up the remaining teams from the conferences that did not qualify for the playoffs. Too logical?

Jim Bell, New Castle, Ind.

ZEISE: Ok, it took me a minute to figure out what you were proposing but it makes sense to me now -- I am fairly certain you are saying you want to create ten different conferences with 12 teams each then have the ten champions in a playoff with the four lowest rated champions playing two (essentially) play-in games to get the field down to eight teams then go from there. It is a noble idea with two fatal flaws --- one, there is no way for the NCAA to force teams to join conferences they don't want to be a part of and two, in order to make those conferences happen you'd have to mess with a lot of other sports, specifically basketball and more importantly you'd have no way, without restructuring things, to make the 10 conferences reasonably balanced enough that their champions would be considered equally as strong based on their level of competition.