Ivy Requests Exemption for Counter Status

[danefan]

http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/yb/149891154" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The concession by the NCAA would be to allow games between the Ivy League and FBS teams to count toward bowl eligibility. UConn's win over Texas Southern last Saturday, for instance, counts toward bowl eligibility for UConn because Texas Southern is an FCS athletic scholarship school -- as is most of the FCS. The Ivy League is not an athletic scholarship league, so at this point it wouldn't be a bowl eligible game for the FBS opponent. And unless the NCAA grants a waiver for games against the Ivy League to count toward bowl eligibility -- which is pending as we speak -- there would be little incentive for an FBS team to schedule one of Ancient Eight.

Yale's 2014 season opener against Army -- to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Yale Bowl -- will be a test case of whether the NCAA is inclined to give Army a waiver to count the Yale game toward bowl eligibility. Army is committed to play either way, but the NCAA isn't likely to give its answer until the year before the game.

"Would we like to play Duke? We'd love to play Duke," Beckett said. "Would they want to play us?"

I would expect the Patriot League to follow suit if this is awarded. That would pretty much kill a major argument the pro-PL scholarship schools have.

[bonarae]

One of my wishes will be granted and we will see the likes of Northwestern playing Harvard for the first time ever (in Northwestern's case) or in almost 60+ years! But... I hope this will be approved.

[CitadelGrad]

One of my wishes will be granted and we will see the likes of Northwestern playing Harvard for the first time ever (in Northwestern's case) or in almost 60+ years! But... I hope this will be approved.

I'm still waiting for you to schedule The Citadel so we can beat up your band.

[aceinthehole]

Here's the link to the article as posted in the New Haven Register to see some of the readers' comments.
http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2010 ... 345878.txt" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I think this is OK proposal, but they NCAA should allow all FCS teams to be 'bowl eligible' including the Ivy, PL, and NEC.

My issue is this, CCSU has recently scheduled 4 FCS teams that have been 'bowl eligible' and have wins over FBS teams, including NDSU, W&M, UNH, and JMU (2011), yet we are a non-counter. Texas Southern gets blown out by UConn and counts, yet CCSU can't schedule that game even though we couldn't do much worse.

I think all FCS teams, regardless of schollys/aid, should be eligible and have 'status' to play a FBS team.