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  • #1

    Something for NCAA to Consider

    The NCAA needs to take a close look at how they award autbids to conferences. Please consider the following:

    In the past 6 years AT LEAST, no team from the OVC (EIU, UTM) or MEAC (Hampton) has won a playoff game. To me, if your conference, collectively, hasn't won a single flippin' playoff game in the past five-plus years, the NCAA should reserve the right to revoke your Autobid. These sub par conferences have CONSISTENTLY proven they can't compete with teams from other, more deserving, I-AA/CS conferences.

    The fact that the sorry, sorry, OVC received two bids is beyond me. Please don't get me started on Hampton and the even more pathetic MEAC. Do record books go back far enough to indicate the last time a MEAC team won a playoff game???

    Again, until teams from these conferences PROVE they can compete, they haven't earned a damned thing (autobid) in my opinion.
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    Originally posted by Pantherpower View Post
    The NCAA needs to take a close look at how they award autbids to conferences. Please consider the following:

    In the past 6 years AT LEAST, no team from the OVC (EIU, UTM) or MEAC (Hampton) has won a playoff game. To me, if your conference, collectively, hasn't won a single flippin' playoff game in the past five-plus years, the NCAA should reserve the right to revoke your Autobid. These sub par conferences have CONSISTENTLY proven they can't compete with teams from other, more deserving, I-AA/CS conferences.

    The fact that the sorry, sorry, OVC received two bids is beyond me. Please don't get me started on Hampton and the even more pathetic MEAC. Do record books go back far enough to indicate the last time a MEAC team won a playoff game???

    Again, until teams from these conferences PROVE they can compete, they haven't earned a damned thing (autobid) in my opinion.

    I completely agree.....the other thing is the Patriot....

    Sure...there was a great Lehigh team that won in Macomb and Colgate ran to Chatty.....but IF the AQ doesn't atleast have 7 wins....you shouldn't AQ....

    The game at UMASS won't be interesting......

    2006 Schedule
    DATE OPPONENT RESULT/TIME
    09/02 at Sacred Heart W 25-14
    09/09 at Bucknell W 31-0
    09/16 Penn L 21-11
    09/23 at Princeton L 26-14
    09/30 Yale L 37-34
    10/14 at Harvard L 24-7
    10/21 Holy Cross L 38-28
    10/28 at Colgate W 27-10
    11/04 at Fordham W 31-24
    11/11 G'town W 45-14
    11/18 Lehigh W 49-27
    11/25 at UMass 12:00 PM
    "We're not an ordinary school," said Fort. "We have tradition. We have a good team year after year. We rebuild, and it doesn't matter who we have coming back."

    dti

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    • #3
      If the BCS conferences tried to do the same thing to NCAA basketball what would your response be?
      Sincerely,
      The Future AD of the University of Northern Iowa

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      • #4
        Luckily for the MVC....they can win Tourney games.....unfortunately UNI is just 1-4......
        "We're not an ordinary school," said Fort. "We have tradition. We have a good team year after year. We rebuild, and it doesn't matter who we have coming back."

        dti

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        • #5
          I agree the MVC could earn their own bids, but what about the other conferneces that couldnt, should they be eliminated?
          Sincerely,
          The Future AD of the University of Northern Iowa

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          • #6
            What I don't like with where you're going is that you are trying to compare a 64/65 team tourney with a 16 team tourney......apples and oranges.....
            "We're not an ordinary school," said Fort. "We have tradition. We have a good team year after year. We rebuild, and it doesn't matter who we have coming back."

            dti

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            • #7
              Agreed. It would be different if they let every D1AA conference have a bid, but they already pick and choose.
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              • #8
                Originally posted by Chitown Panther View Post
                What I don't like with where you're going is that you are trying to compare a 64/65 team tourney with a 16 team tourney......apples and oranges.....
                Agreed, they are very different but they are similar in the fact that half of the field is automatic and half of the field is at large.

                Originally posted by UNIpanther99 View Post
                Agreed. It would be different if they let every D1AA conference have a bid, but they already pick and choose.
                They dont really pick and choose, theres reasons for every confernece that doesnt get a bid not to have them.
                Pioneer-Nonscholorship
                Northeast-Almost nonscholorship, not fully funded
                SWAC-Has own postseason
                Ivy-Bans self from playoffs
                Great West-Only 5 teams
                Big South- Only 5 teams
                MAAC-Only 5 teams (and if Im not mistaken, not fully funded)

                So theres a reason why the conferences that dont have bids, dont have bids. There are a set of rules guiding what conferences have bids and what conferences dont, they dont just "pick and choose" the good conferences and the bad conferences.
                Sincerely,
                The Future AD of the University of Northern Iowa

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                • #9
                  I agree with the Autobid scenario if the conferences qualify under current requirements # teams, fully funded etc. PPower's best point is that the OVC received 2 invites and there is no way that should have happened!

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                  • #10
                    I agree, the OVC should not have had two teams. Shoulda been us or Portland State. Montana State I can kinda see their arguement, they beat a Big 12 team and Portland State, and they had won 6 out of their last 7, but Eastern Illinois beat no one better than 6-5 so that just doesnt make sense.

                    Im just saying that you cant take away auto bids from conferences just because they arent good. If you do that you might as well not have auto bids and just take the top 16 teams. That makes more sense, but I still disagree with it.

                    Heres hoping Illinois State beats the tar out of Eastern Illinois (again).
                    Sincerely,
                    The Future AD of the University of Northern Iowa

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                    • #11
                      The OVC tradition continues. We need to send this to the committee next fall before they begin their selections!

                      The Ohio Valley Conference saw its playoff losing streak balloon to nine and remained winless in the postseason since 2000 as both Eastern Illinois and UT Martin saw fourth-quarter leads slip away. The same thing happened to Hampton, and the MEAC now has a nine-game postseason losing streak without a win since 1999. The Patriot League saw its playoff skid go to six games after Lafayette’s loss to Massachusetts, while the Southland Conference did not advance a team out of the first round for the first time since 2003. Coastal Carolina, the first playoff representative from the Big South, dropped its first-ever playoff contest.

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                      • #12
                        here is something to think about, how about UNI wins all their games and they have no doubt of getting in? Just my thought, obviously we didn't win enough games and we didn't deserve to be in it. I am sorry I am not a person who complains and whines about not getting in. We didn't the win the games we needed to win, so there for we deserve where we are at.

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                        • #13
                          I agree. I didn't say we deserved the bid, I just think the OVC didn't deserve two either.

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by PantherHawk View Post
                            here is something to think about, how about UNI wins all their games and they have no doubt of getting in? Just my thought, obviously we didn't win enough games and we didn't deserve to be in it. I am sorry I am not a person who complains and whines about not getting in. We didn't the win the games we needed to win, so there for we deserve where we are at.

                            I think everyone has thought about this since the UND and WIU games.....

                            At some point SOS needs to come into question......

                            I'm still disappointed the playoff system can allow a team in, that when they exit.....their record is .500.
                            "We're not an ordinary school," said Fort. "We have tradition. We have a good team year after year. We rebuild, and it doesn't matter who we have coming back."

                            dti

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Chitown Panther View Post
                              I'm still disappointed the playoff system can allow a team in, that when they exit.....their record is .500.
                              so are you saying that automatic bids shouldn't be automatic?

                              at least it's not the bowl subdivision, where a team can go 6-6 and finish 8th in their conference and still play in a bowl...

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