Hate to see him leave to. I think the selection committee's lack of respect for the WCC, and Gaels specifically 2 of the last 3 years, makes it easy for him to want to leave.
You can lose 14 games like USC and still get in. In the WCC, win 25 games and be left out.
The current NCAA is one of many factors diminishing non-BCS schools and conferences from having success and if they do their coaches are poached by the football schools. It's a fun powerful cycle the NCAA has created for the BCS schools.