Now 5-7 teams can go to bowl games according to new rule

PK · Post by PK » Mon Dec 03, 2012 12:36 am

Too many worthless bowls and not enough teams to fill them up...totally bush league BS.

Pony^ · Post by **Pony^** » Mon Dec 03, 2012 12:42 am

But the coaches get a bonus if they get their team in a bowl game. Got to spread some wealth to the less successful coaches.

SMU_Alumni11 · Post by **SMU_Alumni11** » Mon Dec 03, 2012 12:48 am

NavyCrimson wrote:Why r we really surprised??? Everyone gets trophies in little league. We need to spread the wealth around. I think our last election speaks volumes about all this. Lol!!!!

Amen to that. Our culture is there are no losers just triers! Trophy and medals for everyone. Hell lets outlaw scoreboards since that will be deemed racist and bigoted eventually if the "wrong" team wins.

Pony^ · Post by **Pony^** » Mon Dec 03, 2012 12:51 am

Or we can just redistribute the points on the scoreboard to ensure a fair outcome.

SMU 86 · Post by **SMU 86** » Mon Dec 03, 2012 12:53 am

Back to the topic, I still think we can win the west div because it will be weak. If we do that then it should gives us more that 5 wins anyway.

ponyscott · Post by **ponyscott** » Mon Dec 03, 2012 9:19 am

Why not just give everyone participation trophies.

CenTXpony · Post by **CenTXpony** » Mon Dec 03, 2012 4:00 pm

Yes! Let's reward mediocrity even more!

PlanoStang · Post by **PlanoStang** » Mon Dec 03, 2012 7:55 pm

We went to the Sun Bowl with a 4-6 record under Hayden Fry.

Maybe we should've fired Hayden Fry........oh wait, we did after a 7-4 season.

stc9 · Post by **stc9** » Mon Dec 03, 2012 8:46 pm

This isn't good news for mid majors or the small schools. If you are a bowl game who would you rather invite a 6-6 SMU team with 10,000 season tickets or a 5-7 Texas Tech team with 50,000 season tickets? Another tie breaker is academic progress. Most small schools have higher academic requirements the same cannot be said for all departments at big schools. In the end this is not good news for SMU.

Stallion · Post by **Stallion** » Mon Dec 03, 2012 8:50 pm

That's not how it works:

Georgia Tech won a Division Championship. Actually, the first criteria are teams that are in Top 5 in APR. There are several more criteria that determine who gets a Bowl at 5-7. Quite frankly the reason that it was an issue is that the NCAA has so many bowl eligible programs on probation this year

sbsmith · Post by **sbsmith** » Mon Dec 03, 2012 8:55 pm

stc9 wrote:This isn't good news for mid majors or the small schools. If you are a bowl game who would you rather invite a 6-6 SMU team with 10,000 season tickets or a 5-7 Texas Tech team with 50,000 season tickets? Another tie breaker is academic progress. Most small schools have higher academic requirements the same cannot be said for all departments at big schools. In the end this is not good news for SMU.

This is only bad news for SMU in the rare event that there aren't enough bowl eligible teams. In your above scenario we'd go to a bowl at 6-6 over that 5-7 team no matter how many season tickets they sold.

SMUer · Post by **SMUer** » Mon Dec 03, 2012 9:38 pm

Widens the gap between the big schools and the nobodies

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