NCAA Attendance

[Rightupinthere]

Maybe it's a tumor.

It's NOT a Tumah!

[doughash]

To put a positive spin on it out of the 21 non-BCS schools hosting games BG rated 4th.

[tekekini]

nope i didnt go to the game.. BG will never see another penny of my money

[It's the Journey...]

And the loss there is what exactly?????????????????????????????????

[BGSUfalcons]

that means there were 92 other teams that played in a game with higher attendance. Wisky and Bg were # 93 and 94 out of 118? Thats pathetic. Why would you think that was cool?

Well, if you are going to interject, at least get the numbers right. There were 69 games played involving at least one 1-A team. BG drew better than 22 other 1-A "home" teams.

Quit trying to make it sound better because you made it sound just as bad if not worse for you guys.

That discussion you are having with yourself must be interesting. I wasn't trying to make anything "sound better". I was aiming for accuracy. You should try doing so. Regardless, what I wrote does "sound better".

[gentlesatirist]

...I think the whole issue of the NCAA kicking teams down to I-AA is a bit of a sham. Think about it - the NCAA wants more D-I schools, not less. That way they can justify having more revenue-generating bowl games.

The last time I can recall a school moving down was when Youngstown State voluntarily did so about 20 years ago. It worked out great for them, as Jim Tressel rebuilt the program and won 4 national championships before moving on to OSU.

Since then, I can recall Akron, South Florida, Buffalo, Central Florida and Connecticut moving up to I-A. And there are probably others. But I can't think of a single downward move.

The NCAA is just trying to put a scare into the smaller conferences to boost attendance. If they were serious about it, half of the MAC would have been sent to I-AA years ago.


- FE
Wickliffe OH

[hross1]

2 more schools that moved up recently: FIU and FAU.

[Schadenfreude]

I agree that they aren't necessarily trying to move schools down.

I mean, when they drew up this I-A/I-AA thing, I don't think they thought in a million years the MAC would stay I-A. I think they assumed it would go the way of the Missouri Valley, the Ohio Valley, etc.

But that was a long time ago.

I think it's pretty clear, from the way the Big Ten schedules us, that they see a benefit to a I-A MAC.

The real issue is probably keeping I-A from growing too big -- discouraging more schools from moving up.

Part of that comes from the ranks of I-AA. Coaches and ADs there always fret about its stability. Right now it's an odd collection of programs -- super competitive ones like Delaware, Montana and Youngstown State, and odd duck nonscholarship programs like Dayton and Princeton. They definitely favor making it tougher to move up.

And I think the incentive for certain I-A programs is for the BCS to try to avoid getting outnumbered in I-A -- that, and there are probably certain programs that look over their shoulder and don't want any more programs to move up in their state. I sense some of that in Conference USA, for instance.

[San Diego Falcon]

BG will never see another penny of my money

But I understand you make a whole $60,000 per year. That's just so much money that you could at least spare a penny.

Tell us again how Toledo beat Iowa State....

[gentlesatirist]

...we just named 7 programs that have moved up to I-A - includng 6 that have done so in the last 10 years - yet we can't come up with a single one that was forced down to I-AA seems to make this a hollow threat from the NCAA.


- FE