🏈 Six Wins Not Good Enough for Bowl Bid?

[Joe]

This doesn't sound like tough standards. What do you think?

"Less than 24 hours after emerging from a landmark Presidential retreat, the Division I Board of Directors unanimously approved the concept of increasing the required academic performance of all teams and mandated that teams must meet those requirements in order to participate in any NCAA-sponsored championship or football bowl game.

NCAA President Mark Emmert touted the change as proof of the NCAA's commitment to the academic success of all student-athletes. "This is about the academic performance of all of our students in all of our sports. This is about the academic expectations we have for all of our student-athletes."

The board voted to raise the Academic Progress Rate benchmark from 900 to 930 and supported a penalty structure that will require teams to earn at least a 930 four-year, rolling APR in order to participate in postseason competition....."

Read the rest at Dr. Saturday Blog.

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[UAgrad93]

I think that it is just a shade above what they are supposed to make without suffering any penalties to begin with. I believe they set it at that level so they can pretty much guarranty filling all of the slots for bowls. What happens if they jacked it up to say 950 and only 30 teams with 6 or more wins has that APR? We only get 15 bowls games! I believe MONEY is still the key.

 

[bamatommy]

I believe MONEY is still the key.

Absolutely!

 

[LBS]

Making a statement like "Grades are important" kind of makes the "6-wins are needed" thing look stupid. Punished for failure in the classroom, but rewarded for failure on the field.

I say that they allow enough bowls for everyone to attend provided that they make the grades (bowls have become good for the game, the schools, the host towns, everyone), and then make the corperate sponsors pay for the bump in monthly money to the players that everyone is calling for.