Quote:The Division I Board of Directors has enacted a four-year moratorium on permitting institutions to begin the process of joining the division – an action that among other things will prevent a school from moving from another division into Division I or moving between its subdivisions until August 2011.
http://www.ncaa.org/wps/portal/!ut/p/kcx...-07+update
Is it just me or is this just another example of the rich trying to figure out how they can hold on to more of the money? I would define the criteria first and then announce a hold on adding additional members for a specific period of time. That way, everyone with dreams of moving up would know exactly what they need to do between now and the deadlilne.
SeaWaBronc Wrote:Is it just me or is this just another example of the rich trying to figure out how they can hold on to more of the money? I would define the criteria first and then announce a hold on adding additional members for a specific period of time. That way, everyone with dreams of moving up would know exactly what they need to do between now and the deadlilne.
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the deck is already so stacked against the non BCS members, so why should they care if a school wants to make the investment to move up? You would think the BCS guys would be all over more schools moving up, as it would help them build a bigger home schedule
D-I coaches are telling high school football players; you'll never make to the NFL holding a clipboard for Auburn or Clemson. Play for us and you have a better chance of being noticed. OSU and Michigan now look are their rosters and see their not as deep as they once were.
Exhibit 1: Illinois pounded the Buckeye defense pretty good and in the end lost by the narrowest of margins. That same depleted Buckeye defense couldn't plug the holes from the Illini beating and allowed almost 90 points in their last two games. Boise State would of beaten OSU in a bowl game and they had over a month to heal. Obviously not a deep as they were 10 years ago and yet they found themselves in the National Championship game.
This is not what the BCS teams want to see happen again.
This is so we don't expand division D-A to 5,000 teams. You got 330 basketball teams and 120 football teams. Doesn't say a conference can't add or subtract teams. Big East and Big Ten probably wouldn't be expanding until 2011.
I don't like the idea of allowing more 1-AA teams to move up to 1-A anyway. Not all schools are cut out to have 1-A football programs. I think 120 1-A programs is already enough. Let's not overcrowd 1-A with a bunch more mid-majors that won't go anywhere.
really? Isn't that what a lot of people say about the MAC? If a school wants to invest in football, why should they have the same opportunity as they would in every other sport?
Everybody gets so caught up in football stadiums, if the same logic applied to basketball, at least 150 schools would fall by the wayside. Speaking of the Wayside, I need a beverage STAT
SeaWaBronc Wrote:really? Isn't that what a lot of people say about the MAC? If a school wants to invest in football, why should they have the same opportunity as they would in every other sport?
Thats exactly what they say about the MAC. It reminds me of these people who move into a subdivision that used to be a cornfield and then piss and moan when a new subdivision goes up behind them ruining their view of a cornfield. Everything that the BCS schools do to consolidate their grip on the sport hurts us too.
In football the MAC gets on ESPN because there isn't any other options for ESPN. Basketball is different as ESPN shows the MVC, Horizon, A-10 which dilutes the number of TV games for the MAC. In the 1990's MAC had more games on ESPN than now for basketball. MAC football is on national TV while the A-10, MVC, Horizon school don't get their football teams on ESPN. Football is where the MAC is stronger than the MVC, A-10, Horizon, CAA, WCC. So, far this hasn't translated into basketball.