You know what's funny, the 1-A conference commissioners and Swarbrick have no idea what kind of hurdle they crossed this year, and the threat it brought to their power structure. Everybody thinks I'm nuts, and that's ok around here, maybe it's intentional....maybe it's not....but I've said time and again, that if the Ivy's make the unbelievable change when it comes to football, the balance of power in this country nationally when it comes to college football, will very quickly return to the Northeast, and that's good for UConn, b/c we'll be right in the middle of it.
And then on top of opening the gates to true post season competition for a national title, Slive and Neinas with that championship game, basically laying the road map for first round of championship games.......completely unintended of course, what they did by establishing that game, which is the really funny part....
REad this piece below out of Lehigh from last year at this time.
The NCAA lax tournament, just finished for 2012, congrats to Loyola.......and occured at the same time that student-athletes in the spring semester (as oposed to the fall) are supposed to be taking those exams........
Nothing makes football (and basketball people for that matter) people at those schools in the Ancient 8 more crazy and animated, about the state of intercollegiate athletic world.....those football coaches and administrators, and teachers.... that care a hell of a lot about competition, and education, and don't give a rat's a@@ or need the money that 1-A football brings...than to talk about how their respective Yale, or Princeton lax teams did in the post season, after their own Ivy tourney......then going to the NCAA lax tournament for a national championship in May, while football sat home in December, and the basketball teams finished with just their league record and no league tourney....but they at least get to go to the NCAA tourney - IF selected - no auto bid.
Read this and you'll udnerstand why. It's been 67 years and counting. Every year, though, the Ivy's get a little bit closer to two things.....division 1-A - AGAIN....and post season football...again...and that agreement made in 1945 about the state of corruption in the college football post season. You get a guy like this SEC football head coach, spouting off the corruption, and false elitism.....and that 1945 decision and document.......gets a little bit more outdated and restrictive.
Sooner or later, that Ivy league tipping point is going to be reached. And comments like this - and the discussion they bring, if the right people start talking about them.....are just the kind of things to do it.
Thanks John L. Nice comment.
http://lehighfootballnation.blogspot.com/2011/05/ivy-football-postseason-ban-not-what.html