Another Example of a Double Standard - FSU 2017

[usf97]

So in 2017, FSU gets to go to a bowl even though one of their wins shouldn't have counted.

https://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2017/12/21/16805816/florida-state-independence-bowl-eligible-ncaa

The FSU schrill says "Not FSU's fault that Delaware doesn't have enough scholarships" Calls this "Technical Nonsense"

Yet USF in 2003 went 7-4 and was not bowl eligible because 2 of their wins came against FCS teams due to this exact same situation. USF was not allowed to go to a bowl because of this. 

http://www.sptimes.com/2003/11/30/Sports/Leavitt_holding_out_f.shtml

[GaUSFBull]

When will people learn that P5 teams get to do what they want to do?

[Triple B]

1 hour ago, usf97 said:

Yet USF in 2003 went 7-4 and was not bowl eligible because 2 of their wins came against FCS teams due to this exact same situation.

It's not the exact same situation. Ours was blatantly obvious where theirs was trickier, should have been caught but wasn't until too late.

[slowdown]

while it is the same situation, i think there are 11 more bowl games now than 2003.  being as they just straight up let 5-7 teams play in bowl games now, does it really matter that team didn't have xx number of scholarships...

[usf97]

4 hours ago, Triple B said:

It's not the exact same situation. Ours was blatantly obvious where theirs was trickier, should have been caught but wasn't until too late.

It wasn’t blatantly obvious to AD Lee Roy Selmon when he signed the game with Nichols State who was only 3 scholarships short of being eligible.

The only difference I see is the Tampa media was reporting on it for months prior to the bowls so no one could have “missed it” when the Bowls were selecting teams.

[Triple B]

1 hour ago, usf97 said:

It wasn’t blatantly obvious to AD Lee Roy Selmon when he signed the game with Nichols State who was only 3 scholarships short of being eligible.

The only difference I see is the Tampa media was reporting on it for months prior to the bowls so no one could have “missed it” when the Bowls were selecting teams.

After taking time to actually read the 2003 article, it is a lot closer to the same situation than I first thought 

Love CJL saying in the article that we'd bring 30K fans if invited .... God bless him. 

[SpikeBull]

It was also a little bit different in that nobody knew who we were (yet) in 2003

[Mama_Bull]

23 minutes ago, SpikeBull said:

It was also a little bit different in that nobody knew who we were (yet) in 2003

Not as unknown as many would think.

We were royally screwed out of a bowl game, after going 9-2 the year before and that was widely known. The BCS  standings only went to 15 back then. We would have been in their top 25, if they had ranked that many.

"We're hoping that by some miracle we can get into a bowl game," Leavitt said. "If they can petition to get us out last year then why can't they petition to get us in this year?"

 

Edited December 22, 2017 by Mama_Bull

[BullFan98]

Unbelievable. 

[NewEnglandBull]