[NU Sports] A thought on bowling

[Mark Ament]

6-6 teams are not allowed to go to at-large slots until all 7-5 teams have
been taken, however, 6-6 teams ARE allowed to go to conference affiliated
bowls even if 7-5 teams from other conferences are staying home.  In Scott's
scenario, NU could get the Motor City bid since the at-large bids were being
filled by 7-5 teams.  It appears that both the Big 12 and Pac-10 will not be
able to fill all their slots, especially if the Big 12 gets two BCS bids as
seems likely.

 

The expansion of the BCS at large field to 18 seems designed to accomplish
two things: 1) assure Boise of a bid should it beat Hawai'i this week, and
2) assure Illinois of a BCS bid - why I don't know - I guess it's because
there just aren't any other options.

 

With Big Ten bowls able to take their pick of the bottom of bowl eligible
teams, it would appear that with some quick work by the Big Ten office, that
Scott's scenario is workable.

Mark

 

 

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-----Original Message-----
From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On
Behalf Of Jonathan Hodges
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 2:35 PM
To: szeller at comcast.net
Cc: nwu-sports at romaine.tssi.com
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] A thought on bowling

 

I don't think this is possible since the rules are that the bowls with

conference tie-ins have first dibs at those conference teams and that the

teams with winning records must be selected prior to teams with 6-6

records.  Also, the NCAA rules do not allow for official agreements to be

made between bowls and conferences after the start of the season (so that

you don't end up with extra tie-ins to make room for those extra 6-6 teams,

which basically addresses what you're getting at).

 

The best example as to why that wouldn't work came last year where the

following BCS conference teams were left out of bowls despite having a "bowl

eligible" 6-6 record: Kansas, Pittsburgh, Arizona, and Washington State

(there were also 5 other lower tier conference teams at 6-6 that were left

at home).  Meanwhile, "lower tier" conference teams got to go bowling with

7-5 records thanks to those rules that allowed them to be selected above

teams with 6-6 records, e.g. NIU.

 

Jonathan

 

On Nov 20, 2007 1:08 PM, <szeller at comcast.net> wrote:

 

> Perhaps farfetched, but knowing how much the BT would want the revenue and

> exposure, and can wield influence, how about this scenario:

> 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?

> 

> Scott Zeller MD

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