Ncaa Puts Bowls On Notice

[MeanGreen61]

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4. NCAA puts bowls on notice: The NCAA sent out an interesting letter to all the bowls last week. The letter essentially said that while the NCAA has certified 34 bowls for next season, that certification does not guarantee that a team will be available for any bowl. It is a pre-emptive move by the NCAA to ward off litigation in case there aren’t enough teams with at least six wins to fill the bowls. Some of the bowl execs I talked to want to know: “If you were worried about having enough teams, why did you certify two more bowls?”

This could get nasty. Right now a bowl cannot take a team unless it has a 6-6 record or better. This December a bowl could be in a situation where it has to petition the NCAA for a waiver to take a 5-7 team. If that happens the NCAA will get hammered in the court of public opinion. And it should.

Atlanta Journal Blog

http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-bl...ant_acc_pl.html

[Arkstfan]

Off the Muts board.

4. NCAA puts bowls on notice: The NCAA sent out an interesting letter to all the bowls last week. The letter essentially said that while the NCAA has certified 34 bowls for next season, that certification does not guarantee that a team will be available for any bowl. It is a pre-emptive move by the NCAA to ward off litigation in case there aren’t enough teams with at least six wins to fill the bowls. Some of the bowl execs I talked to want to know: “If you were worried about having enough teams, why did you certify two more bowls?”

This could get nasty. Right now a bowl cannot take a team unless it has a 6-6 record or better. This December a bowl could be in a situation where it has to petition the NCAA for a waiver to take a 5-7 team. If that happens the NCAA will get hammered in the court of public opinion. And it should.

Atlanta Journal Blog

http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-bl...ant_acc_pl.html

The warning means they won't permit a 5-7 to go.

The problem is the way the bowl certification rules are currently written, the NCAA cannot turn down any game that meets the criteria and the criteria is pretty thin.

The thing is they won't be short at 34 bowls. There have been four 12 game seasons, the fewest eligible teams in a 12 game season has been 67 and there were two fewer I-A teams then and the once in four rule on counting I-AA games was still in place. In the two 12 game seasons since I-A went to 119 schools and one I-A every year came into play we've had 71 and 73 eligible teams. With WKU going I-A in 2009 they could take the bowls up to 36 and probably not run out of teams, as long as you don't have people farting around and playing 2 I-AA games (that means you ACC).