(03-05-2017 02:26 PM)Brillio Wrote:  What's the point of the probation period anyway? Were they having problems with so many D2 schools moving up and kicking butt? If the team is good enough to make the NCAAs then they should get to play. All it does is put that team farther behind their conference peers, unless the NCAA wants the newbies to start with as much of a disadvantage as possible?

It is mainly compliance stuff that they have to do during the four years, so I think the logic behind it is that they don't want a program moving up, breaking the rules, and then acting like they didn't know they were doing something wrong. And that is me stretching play devil's advocate. Plus, I think GCU was the only program to have a winning record (again) of the group of four that moved up for the 2013-2014 season.