It doesn't make sense for a school to be punished for another team's NCAA violations. We should protest this if we lose to FSU.
Unfortunately that's not a waiver as I read it. It says that bowls can't pick from the non-bowl-eligible pools more than once in four years. That doesn't really make sense to me because they may be forced to pick from the pools more than once per four years as other bowls pick up all the bowl-eligible schools.
The only hope may be some sort of extraordinary retroactive NCAA action to make an exception for GT.
They don't get two weeks, game is next saturday. FSU is going down.
What makes it especially Kafkaesque is that if Miami didn't self-impose, we would have been fine.
Yes, I read it again. Here's a good explanation.
http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/blog/jerry-palm/20618572
Now, here's another way the NCAA could let us in. Central Florida appealed their bowl ban and the NCAA is expected to rule in January, letting them go for this year. All they have to do is rule on the appeal or UCF self-ban if they lose the CUSA championship game next weekend. A quick call from the NCAA warning them that if they don't accept the ban this year, could lead to a multiple year ban might help.
I stand corrected, but couldn't one read the NCAA ruling language to be the bowl CAN select a team that meets that criteria - not HAS to?
If a bowl has one or more conferences/institutions unable to meet their contractual commitments and if there are no other remaining bowl-eligible teams, NCAA staff will provide a list of team that bowl management may consider in order in the following pools:
No, I looked over the language many times and it says that IF there are no more bowl-eligible teams, then the bowl MAY pick from the pools in the order given.
Interesting tidbit from doing research on this, if there were a lot of FBS losses to FCS schools and it went to the last pool and GT went 5-7, GT would be one of the five top APR teams that could be selected. Miami is also one of the five somehow and the other three are small private schools, meaning we would get selected first out of that pool.
This whole thing also reminds of Bowden's last game at FSU, where magically FSU bypassed the selection criteria and ended up in the Gator Bowl. So maybe something could happen after all to allow GT to be selected at 6-7.
does anyone really think we deserve a bowl game with a losing record?
If so, we just need to drop football and put all the $ into BB or go to the ga state conference.
Oh dear God in Heaven, I forgot. What will that do to the value of all the nerd diplomas?
does anyone really think we deserve a bowl game with a losing record?
If so, we just need to drop football and put all the $ into BB or go to the ga state conference.
Oh dear God in Heaven, I forgot. What will that do to the value of all the nerd diplomas?
Just figured out the solution to our problem:
The "bowl streak" shall now be referred to as a "postseason streak".