(01-23-2013 11:28 AM)eagleriffic Wrote: The NCAA should make it 7 wins needed for a bowl. No more of this feel good everybody gets a trophy & cookies for partcipating. Go to a bowl for a reward for a good season not because you finished @ .500
Also d1aa wins should not count towards bowl eligibility. I believe when the ncaa changed to fcs & fcsbdfu or whatever it is it dropped that stipulation so the "big boys" could get 11 bowl teams.
One more thing......have the NCAA seed the bowls like the basketball or baseball tourny. They do a good job there so eliminate bowl conference tie ins.
Just my thoughts.
Back around 1989ish the NCAA decreed, you must win 6 I-A games to go to a bowl.
A few years later they allowed you to count one I-AA every four years.
Around the time the I-AA schools were bellyaching that the I-AA name was a bad thing because people confused "two A" with Division II a reform package was put forward to help I-AA. The proposals put forward by I-AA were:
1. Eliminate the I-A/I-AA names and just call everyone Division I.
2. Set the minimum standard for attendance for Division I bowl (I-A) at 17,000 actual attendance every year and mandate the use of an outside auditor to certify attendance.
3. Eliminate the exception to remain I-A for schools playing in a conference where a majority of the members met I-A criteria.
4. Allow the bowl teams to count one playoff (I-AA) team every year for bowl eligibility so that playoff schools would have access to bigger paydays and reduce the economic pressure to go to I-A.
The I-AA schools believed that would send some schools back to their ranks and would eliminate the progression of teams moving up. At that time there had been 26 I-AA championships, of the 52 slots in the title game, 13 (25%) had gone to schools that had moved on to I-A. They wanted to stop the loss of top programs, but also the loss of mediocre programs.
The first two proposals were adopted in modified form, and the last two were adopted outright.