[NU Sports] 12th game blues

[Jeff Beamsley]

Since I can't comment on the President's intelligence or morality, I thought
I would add a few thoughts to this thread.

I love going to bowl games.  I think it is great fun.  It would be even more
fun to win one of them, but going  has been great.

I have to admit, though, that it is a guilty pleasure because we are
complicit in the slow march of sport overtaking study.  So far, the BT has
held the line on play after thanksgiving.  That's important because it allows
football players to have at least a little time to study and prepare for
finals. If we continue to see BT teams fall in the BCS polls in December and
performing poorly in bowls because of the long layoff, the pressure is going
to mount to extend the season and have some sort of conference playoff.

IMHO, the season is already too long.  The 12th game is all about money.  It
is about making more teams bowl eligible.  It is about getting another home
game for the "big" teams, and getting nice payoff for the "little" teams.

I think it would be much more interesting if the NCAA included an academic
requirement that became more rigorous with each additional game over say 11,
that a team played.  The teeth of the academic requirement would be the
number of scholarships a team could offer the next year.  So football powers
who regularly compete in conference championships and bowl games (more
practice should not come at the expense of school) would be held to a higher
academic standard than those who didn't play those extra games.

I don't think it would ever happen, but it would be interesting.

Jeff


-----Original Message-----
From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On
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Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 7:45 AM
To: nwu-sports at romaine.tssi.com
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] 12th game blues

NO!  12-games is already 1 too many.

I love my season tickets, but I feel burned out late in the season.  
With more useless/tune-up games it would get even worse.

I want to see 1-2 home non-conference games to give our new players a sense
of game speed and to get me back into the football groove, but no more than
that.

Also early season the weather is warm, which not only means I waste a
perfectly good day that I could be out running or cycling, but also warm
weather football is evil.  Football should always be played on cool, crisp
mid-October days with a mix of sun and some winter-hinting gloom.

If you extend the season later into the fall the weather gets quite iffy and
there is less time to buy plane tickets, book hotels, kennels, schedule
vacation days, etc. for bowl games.

Say no to extra creampuffs, america is fat enough already ;-)

-- cherron604 at aol.com wrote:
<snip>
Heck, I'd argue for a 14-game schedule, if it meant 6 non-conference
pushovers, and one conference win got you to a bowl.
<snip>

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