Name change for I-AA???

[MGLD Panther]

I emailed Matt Dougherty, from the Sportsnetwork, yesterday about the Q&A's to ask him if UNI would be included and mentioned he would like to do Farley or Sanders but may not have time. He is doing a draft article and a "feature on the name change from I-AA to, most likely, PCS." Has anyone else heard anything about a name change for I-AA?? He did not elaborate on what PCS means. I'm thinking Perfect College Sport, because I-AA football is just that!

He also offered the opinion that Appy St would be #1 because of the return of 16 starters and that UNI would be #2 in the preseason poll. He then said New Hampshire, Montana, and Cal Poly would round out the top 5.

I'll reply back and ask about the PCS thing and I will all of you know.

[Mountain Panther]

BCS = Bowl Championship Series

PCS = Playoff Championship Series

That would be my guess.

[JayJ79]

In PttB's paraphrase of Ralph's 3/38 I-AA Waves post (where Gateway commish Patty Viverito and others were inteviewed),
he mentioned the name most likely being changed to something like the Playoff Championship Series.

Now I wonder if this means that the whole I-AA classification is changing it's name, or just the name for the playoffs? b/c the term "division I-A" is still around in addition to the BCS classification

[CF Panther]

I emailed Matt Dougherty, from the Sportsnetwork, yesterday about the Q&A's to ask him if UNI would be included and mentioned he would like to do Farley or Sanders but may not have time. He is doing a draft article and a "feature on the name change from I-AA to, most likely, PCS." Has anyone else heard anything about a name change for I-AA?? He did not elaborate on what PCS means. I'm thinking Perfect College Sport, because I-AA football is just that!

He also offered the opinion that Appy St would be #1 because of the return of 16 starters and that UNI would be #2 in the preseason poll. He then said New Hampshire, Montana, and Cal Poly would round out the top 5.

I'll reply back and ask about the PCS thing and I will all of you know.

Right where we need to be... Even with a couple of losses, we'll have a great shot at hosting throughout the playoffs!!

[Newsbreaker]

I don't like the idea of a name change. We already have to correct people when they say we're not "division 1"...I'd hate for them to be right.

[Matt Trump]

Division I: Bowl Championship Series
Division I: Playoff Champion Series

I like that better than I-AA and I-A

[Newsbreaker]

Here's the thing, Division 1A is not called the "BCS." A series of Bowl games that determines it's national champion is. There are leagues we refer to as "BCS" leagues, but those are only the leagues with automatic, yearly births into that group of Bowls.

Even with this new configuration, you're going to have a hard time convincing a VERY LARGE number of Division 1A schools that they are really part of a classification called the "BCS."

Anything that casts a stark difference between 1A and 1AA is not a good thing, IMHO. While we know there is high quality and a better system at the AA level, giving it a non-"DI" title only makes it even more 'minor' to the average fan.

We are a Division I football program, and should not change a name that would diminish that.

[UNIAlum95]

Division I: Bowl Championship Series
Division I: Playoff Champion Series

I like that better than I-AA and I-A

The big boys will never go for that type of naming. That would put too much pressure on them to own up to the farce that is the BCS. It also puts us on a more noticeable level with naming and they just won't have that.

[Panthers to the Bone]

From what Patty Viverito said, it's not that it might happen...it either has happened or will happen. There is no might about the name change. It will get done. The purpose is not that it slights the football teams associated, but rather the rest of the sports teams at the 1-AA schools, where fans also think their basketball, baseball, etc...are 1-AA, and that simply is not true. This is one of the main reasons for the name change.

[UNIAlum95]

If that's the case I wonder what non-BCS that are now BCS schools feel about this? I wonder if this will crack the whole thing open.

[Matt Trump]

I doubt the "non-BCS" schools will have much of a say other than the normal rumblings and grumblings they do.

I thought next year they were going to be more accomodating to the "non-BCS" leagues by letting them play if they are good enough.

[UNIAlum95]

I doubt the "non-BCS" schools will have much of a say other than the normal rumblings and grumblings they do.

I thought next year they were going to be more accomodating to the "non-BCS" leagues by letting them play if they are good enough.

Is that something like humoring the mid-majors by inviting just enough to the dance to keep them quiet? I'm sure the non-BCS conferences will be given the same shot at the "elite" bowl games as the BCS conferences...

[panther2317]

But not all of 1-A football is involved in the BCS. Unitl that happens...it's all still a sham to me. It's a private party with the 6 BCS conferences and Notre Dame. That's shameful.

[UNIAlum95]

But not all of 1-A football is involved in the BCS. Unitl that happens...it's all still a sham to me. It's a private party with the 6 BCS conferences and Notre Dame. That's shameful.

That's was a failed attempt at sarcasm on my part.

[uni1988]

2317... I think all teams in D-1A have a chance at the Bowl Championship Series. But, it is very difficult for those teams not in the BSC conferences to make it. Utah would be one example.