[NU Sports] A thought on bowling

[Jonathan Hodges]

Fitz has said that NU will practice this week and there are practices slated
for Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday.  See the following Daily Herald article
for more info:

http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=80847&src=289

So, apparently they are allowed to practice.  I would guess that teams are
allowed to practice until the regular season is technically over across the
nation, since other teams with "bye" weeks are afforded the opportunity to
practice in those such weeks - it just so happens the Big Ten schedule ends
prior to Thanksgiving.

Jonathan

On Nov 20, 2007 1:22 PM, Mike Nolan <nolan at romaine.tssi.com> wrote:

> > The Big Ten office, working with the AD's, talks to some of the at-large
> bowls, and those bowls whose conference does not have bowl-eligible teams,
> and offers some of our 7-5 teams. They find interesting warm-weather spots
> for those attractive-record teams, and their fans are happy with a fun, new,
> different spot to go to. They then fill the bottom two conference-assigned
> bowls with 6-6 NU and Iowa. All ten teams get a bowl, ten bowls get Big Ten
> exposure and fan turnout, the Big Ten is happy, everyone is happy. Possible?
>
> Not all that far fetched.  The last list I saw indicated that the Big 12
> (and possibly other conferences) might not meet all its bowl committments.
>
> The question may hinge on whether a 6-6 Big 10 team can be taken over
> a 7-5 team from another conferemce, such as the MAC, when neither
> conference has an automatic tie-in to that bowl.
>
> The Big 10 may not be out of the running for a 2nd BCS bowl slot.
>
> According to ESPN, the BCS is about to announce that they will expand
> the number of teams eligible for BCS bowl games to the top 18 on the final
> BCS standings.
>
> As ESPN explains it, there's a possibility that some teams in the top 14
> (such as the 2nd place ACC team) might not have enough wins (9) to
> qualify for a BCS bowl.  One possible beneficiary of this is Illinois,
> currently #17 on the list.
>
> Here's an interesting question:  Northwestern is bowl-eligible but not
> guaranteed a bowl slot, something they won't know for sure until the
> 1st Sunday in December.
>
> Are they permitted to practice this week and next?
> --
> Mike Nolan
>
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