Ay-Ziggy-Zoomba.com

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.

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.

UK Peregrine wrote: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.

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"?