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Subject: NCAA didn't care about former MAC teams


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Go Green
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Date Posted: 08:54:31 11/06/09 Fri
In reply to: Oricle 's message, "Re: Prediction" on 20:49:34 11/05/09 Thu
THhe NCAA didn't care that several teams have already discontinued after being forced up to Division I-AA. Iona, St. John's, St. Peter's all were doing fine at the D-III level and probably begged the NCAA to let them back down to D-III because they were getting their asses kicked at I-AA level.

There are a lot of other I-AA teams that probably would love to move back down to Division III (including Georgetown) but can't so long as the NCAA's rule is in place.

I *can* see the NCAA lightening up a bit if another 10 or 15 teams go kaput. Maybe they allow exceptions upon application if a team has less than a .300 winning percentage over a five-year period. But we're still ways away from that.
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Go Green
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Date Posted: 09:02:41 11/06/09 Fri

Anyone who wants to know the purpose of the "everything or nothing at Division III," google "Dayton Rule." The NCAA believed that teams that played Division III football, but otherwise had Division I facilities (weight and locker rooms) got too much of an advantage over teams that were Division III across the board.

I get it, really I do. But I wouldn't be surprised if the NCAA reverses itself if more of the former D-III teams that have been I-AA bottom feeders find that they are in over their heads...

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