[Husker] Ohio State gets waiver from NCAA on coaching limits

[Mike Nolan]

> You write: "I don't think I've ever heard of a school replacing a
> coach this time of year AND having that new coach work on bowl game
> prep."  However, that is exactly the situation at OSU.  Fickel IS
> the head coach (albeit interim), he is being replaced, and he is
> working on bowl prep.  

But the newly named head coach, Urban Meyer, is the one the waiver was requested 
for, so he could work on recruiting issues, and he is not working on bowl prep.  

That's not the situation I was alluding to.  I stated that I was not aware of
a school at which a newly named head coach worked that school's bowl game.
I'm still unaware of any instance of this.

Michigan isn't very happy about the OSU wavier.

See http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/colleges/michigan-ad-responds-to-ohio-states-coaches-waiver/2011/12/10/gIQA8kmelO_story.html

Let's see if Michigan's NCAA rep proposes a change to NCAA Bylaws to remove 
this waiver possiblity in the future.  

The whole bowl game practices situation is rife with issues.  All schools
get the same number of bowl game practices, but some schools play their bowl
games more than two weeks after the start of bowl season, which begins on
December 17th this year.  And with OVER HALF of the 120 FBS schools playing
in bowl games, the 'exception' is now the school that DOESN'T get those extra
practices.  
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Mike Nolan