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Playoff Expansion (official announcement)


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What is the rationale behind the decision by some of the conferences to not pursue involvement in the football post-season? Based on the foregoing posts, I've learned that some of the conferences do not qualify for an automatic bid (assuming everything goes through and we get 9 AQ bids), but absent conference eligibility issues, why wouldn't a team and/or conference want to pursue involvement in the post-season?

Official reason for the Ivy League: playoffs would take too much time away from the players' academics. Apparently this applies only to football, as all their other sports are in the playoffs. Suspected true reason: The Ivies, especially H-Y-P, think they're too good to mix with the lower classes, or they don't want to be embarassed losing to Mountaineers or Grizzlies, or they still resent having been forced into I-AA (no scholarships, lack of attendance).

 

The SWAC probably makes too much money on their championship game and never had success in the playoffs anyway.

 

The Pioneer League has no leadership to try for a playoff, and the commissioner may only be following the lead of the majority of its schools, who are trying to play football on a budget. Any playoff spot for the PFL takes away a possible at-large for the Gateway, her full-time job.

 

A day late, but the Times-Union did the story on the AQ today Plan could help Danes

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What is the rationale behind the decision by some of the conferences to not pursue involvement in the football post-season? Based on the foregoing posts, I've learned that some of the conferences do not qualify for an automatic bid (assuming everything goes through and we get 9 AQ bids), but absent conference eligibility issues, why wouldn't a team and/or conference want to pursue involvement in the post-season?

Official reason for the Ivy League: playoffs would take too much time away from the players' academics. Apparently this applies only to football, as all their other sports are in the playoffs. Suspected true reason: The Ivies, especially H-Y-P, think they're too good to mix with the lower classes, or they don't want to be embarassed losing to Mountaineers or Grizzlies, or they still resent having been forced into I-AA (no scholarships, lack of attendance).

 

The SWAC probably makes too much money on their championship game and never had success in the playoffs anyway.

 

The Pioneer League has no leadership to try for a playoff, and the commissioner may only be following the lead of the majority of its schools, who are trying to play football on a budget. Any playoff spot for the PFL takes away a possible at-large for the Gateway, her full-time job.

 

A day late, but the Times-Union did the story on the AQ today Plan could help Danes

 

Just to clarify, it is the Harvard admins who are aginst it. The coaches are ALL for it. Same at Yale and Penn. In fact, the Penn coaches are very vocal about going to the playoffs.

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I always thought the 'P' in H-Y-P was for Princeton

 

but anyway

 

I see on the AGS board that the Ohio Valley Conf. has reintroduced the resolution that would require a conference to average 50 scholarships or $1.5 million spent on equivalencies for two years to be eligible for an autobid. They tried this last year with a $1.25M floor, and withdrew it later. Of course this is just a ploy to protect their own playoff spot in spite of their sorry performances the last 15 years or so, but if it passes it will keep the NEC out of an autobid for AT LEAST two more years.

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  • 3 weeks later...

Story in the Chattanooga Times Free Press quotes the NCAA director of baseball and football saying playoff expansion will be hard to do by 2008, they haven't heard back from ESPN about how that would affect the TV schedule. In Chatty they're worried about the attendance affect of playing three days before Xmas. The final decision won't be until April.

 

Story via mocs fan board

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