Terry Pluto writes about 15K attendance req

[San Diego Falcon]

http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/sports/col ... 395574.htm

The focus of the article is Akron and Kent State. This sentence jumped out at me: "So far, the NCAA has not implemented any significant penalties, although athletic directors hear rumblings a team might be denied a chance to play in a postseason bowl game."

So a 6-6 Big 10 team could go bowling, but a 11-1 MAC team could be kept out if their attendance doesn't meet an arbitrary number. Penalize the players because the NCAA decides the team doesn't have enough fans. Nice.

[UK Peregrine]

Makes sense to me. Bowl games have never been about two deserving teams playing a football game. Bowl games are about the money, and the quality of football or teams participating is a secondary concern.

With that said, I think the writer is being misleading about the bowl game sanction. If I recall correctly, not reaching 15,000 in attendance this year would result in a letter from the NCAA stating a school's non-compliance, which would then be followed by a mandate that a school must average an attendance over 15,000 for the next 10 years. If a school does not meet this 10 year attendance average, then they would face possible membership restrictions like losing bowl eligibility. So this could happen sometime in 2018 if I understand the whole fuzzy non-committal policy the NCAA has enacted.

[Schadenfreude]

If I recall correctly, not reaching 15,000 in attendance this year would result in a letter from the NCAA stating a school's non-compliance, which would then be followed by a mandate that a school must average an attendance over 15,000 for the next 10 years. If a school does not meet this 10 year attendance average, then they would face possible membership restrictions like losing bowl eligibility. So this could happen sometime in 2018 if I understand the whole fuzzy non-committal policy the NCAA has enacted.

My understanding is that it is not an average over ten years. The requirement would be to hit it every year for ten straight.

[Lord_Byron]

I hear what you're saying, but I have a hard time listening to someone who isn't even a planet anymore.

Is Terry Pluto now a "Dwarf Sportswriter"?