Hey Guys

[flsportsfan83]

playoffs would be the only fair way to crown a national championship. The bowl system is only the way it is now because of money.

[E.T.]

Thanx for stopping by Doc !

Best of luck.

We'll most likely be playing in B'ham for the Bowl on 23rd of December. Not sure how close it would be for you, but may make a nice trip. Will most likely be playing E. Carolina.

Take care !

[McNeese72]

Randygator, i for one am glad 1-A does not have playoffs.  My friend transfered to Duquesne and her school shared the MAAC Title but didn't go to the playoffs.  Winning a share of a conference title should have gotten them there, but alas it did not.

Duquesne is a non-scholarship school competing in non-scholarship conference.   The strength of schedule kills them because they don't play any of the big I-AA scholarship schools from the major I-AA conferences.

Saying that they should be in the playoffs would be like saying that a Sunbelt school should be in a BCS bowl game just because they won the Sunbelt conference.

Essentially most of the nonscholarship schools are really Div III type football programs that were forced into I-AA when they wanted to play their other sports in Div I and the NCAA ruled that to play any sport in Div I all of a university's sports have to be Div I.   Thus they ended up being stuck in Div I-AA.   There is a world of difference in the full scholarship schools in Div I-AA and the non-scholies.

If they want to compete in the I-AA playoffs, they need to step up and play a schedule that would get them in.  If you want to check it out for yourself, check Duquesne schedule and compare it to the Div I-AA top 25.   You won't find any schools on the Duquesne schedule in the Top 25.  

So your reason for not wanting playoffs in Div I-A doesn't fly.

Doc

[BigShoop]

Sounds like you shouldnt go on any more road trips...