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Jan 10 NCAA BOD Meeting: Attendance

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Jan 10 NCAA BOD Meeting: Attendance

Jan 10 NCAA BOD Meeting: Attendance


We are not ALONE in watching the NCAA meeting this weekend! If these numbers are correct……….



La. Monroe avg. attendance 14,717 in four home games
Eastern Mich. avg. attendance 14,387 in five home games
Ball St. avg. attendance 14,300 in five home games
Middle Tenn. St. avg. attendance 13,388 in five home games
Kent State avg. attendance 12,877 in five home games
Buffalo avg. attendance 12,185 in five home games
San Jose State avg. attendance 6,479 in five home games

Not to split hairs here, but didn't LMU average just over 22,000 with the help of that game played in Arkansas as a desinated home game for them. Which again, makes a point why this attendance issue is crap. I can understand under certain circumstances where games can be played at neutral sites, but for the purpose to satisfy attendance, please.

Let's all get in the lotus position and do a few chants and let's use the force in unison and force this issue into oblivion. 8-)
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Jan 10 NCAA BOD Meeting: Attendance

I don't recall seeing this posted.




NCAA plans to rethink rules for I-A status
By Steve Wieberg, USA TODAY
GRAPEVINE, Texas ? The NCAA is backing off toughened membership criteria that threaten to bounce Kent State, Ball State and a handful of other schools from college football's most prominent and competitive division.
The association's highest rules-making body, the Division I board of directors, will revise or rescind a controversial requirement that teams average at least 15,000 in home attendance each season to stay in top-tier Division I-A, chairman Robert Hemenway, also the chancellor at Kansas, said Monday.

The board expects to weigh alternatives in April.

One option: erase the I-A designation. Classify current I-A and I-AA schools as Division I, as basketball and every other sport does, and let television and other marketplace influences determine which are big-time and which aren't.

Unofficially, big-time status would come from affiliation with the Bowl Championship Series, which once was limited to the nation's six most powerful conferences but now extends to all 11 leagues in I-A.

The NCAA still would sponsor a playoff for the former I-AA schools, holding them to the same 63-scholarship limit they have today. The current system would change little, in fact, beyond the title change.

"I think some combination of those sorts of thoughts will end up being something we can build consensus around by April," said David Berst, the NCAA's vice president for Division I.

Midlevel schools and conferences in I-A, led by Kent State President Carol Cartwright, who heads the NCAA Executive Committee, had fought feverishly against the new attendance minimum. It's one of several guidelines drawn up three years ago and implemented in August 2004 in response to fears the I-A brand was being diluted by a steady flow of I-AA schools moving up, seeking status or a shot at a bowl.

Other guidelines range from a minimum number of home games vs. other I-A teams (four last season and in 2005, five thereafter) to minimum offerings of scholarships in football and other sports.

Failure to meet any of the provisions would cause a school to enter a 10-year probationary period of sorts. Failure to meet them again in that time would mean being barred that season from playing in a bowl.

Unofficial attendance figures posted by the NCAA show five schools fell beneath the 15,000 cutoff last season: San Jose State (whose average of 6,479 was by far the lowest in Division I-A), Buffalo, Kent State, Middle Tennessee State and Ball State.
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