> A while ago :-), Chris Paine wrote:
>> >    On another note, someone had suggested that more Div. I teams
playing
>> >at the II/III level be encouraged to move up, while simultaneously
complaining
>> >that the NCAA Tournament, if anything, was too big and should be cut
back to
>> >8 schools.  This seems to be quite a contradiction.  The smaller
schools, if
>> >they form their own league, will have no incentive to be on the Div. I
level
>> >without the chance to be in the postseason.  But would the larger
schools
>> >want a fifth automatic bid to a 12-team (or worse, an 8-team) event?
I
>> >doubt it.
 
> However, if a fifth league was made up entirely of DivI teams, no
> matter what the caliber, then I believe the NC$$ would give them an
> automatic bid which they could choose to have given to the reg season
> champ or the conference tourney champ.  The other DivI teams have no say
> since the NC$$ runs the tourney.  So if someone could put together a 5th
> league of all DivI teams, I would say that automatic bid would give
> them the incentive to play at the DivI level.  They would be
> guaranteed that one of their teams would make the DivI tourney every
> season.  I would guess that the requirement to play 20 DivI games
> would also need to be met, but that shouldn't be as much of a problem
> as forming the conference in the first place. :-)
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> Mike Machnik                                          [log in to unmask]
> Cabletron Systems, Inc.                                  *HMM* 11/13/93
 
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Hi All!  I'm back!!  Had an uneventful business trip but a great time
skiing in Vail - and I've got the sunburn to prove it!!
 
 
Anyways, while an automatic bid to a fifth conference might anger the
other conferences, it does have a precedent.  The college orange-ball
tourney guarentees a bid to each conference even though many don't (IMO)
deserve it.  To give a bid to the winner of the joe-schmoe conference in
the mid-west over the third or fourth place team in the Big East or the
ACC is ludicrous (IMO) but it's done.
 
Better for our sport to suffer growing pains than to not grow at all..
 
 
 
 
 
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