The Rest of College Football

[Mike]

The NCAA has reversed it's ruling on the Marine from Middle Tennessee. He can play this fall with 4 years eligibility remaining.

[entropy]

sure sign of a weak organization... They messed up and didn't like the press they were getting.

[Mike]

Regardless of how they got there, at least they got it right. That's an improvement. Now we'll see if they can make Heisman Boy sit for a while.

[Wild Hoss]

sure sign of a weak organization... They messed up and didn't like the press they were getting.

Agreed. Failing to make the right decision in the first place is bad enough, but to make a ruling and then reverse it because of bad press- as if they aren't used to that- looks even worse.

The only thing this organization is good at is failure.

[THE_WIZARD_]

Reminds me of The talent...

[DennisT]

You also could argue it is good to be a responsive organization.

[hack]

But maybe not if you are also a rules-based organization. You are supposed to have clear rules ansd apply them equally to all.

[WM Wolverine]

Every situation is different, I don't think you can treat every situation the same. I didn't read too much about it but I don't have an issue with their change in ruling.

[Dr. Strangelove]

Dunno if it's a just a rumor or what, but there's speculation that Miami sanctions could finally be announced very soon. Miami announced yesterday they were canceling the last practice of the fall and suspending media access till next Monday. Late last night they also announced that they were kicking Dyron Dye off the team. He was the last player on the roster to have been connected to Shapiro.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/acc/2013/08/19/dyron-dye-miami-hurricanes-roster-nevin-shapiro-scandal/2674397/

[Hannibal]

Anything less than a Penn State/Sandusky level drubbing would be way too soft. IMHO it warrants a death penalty or something very close.

Which means that they will probably get a one year bowl ban and they will be limited to 23 scholarships for three years.

[lineygoblue]

I dunno, Hanni.

The rumblings I've heard is that the NCAA is not too happy with Miami.

While they may not get "sanduskyed" .. I suspect they're going to have significant penalties.

I guess we'll see soon

[WM Wolverine]

At least one member of the coaching staff was well aware it was happening, they'll get USC like penalties.

[Hannibal]

Oregon just skated using university funds to buy a recruit, and there was some bullshit technicality related to the evidence in the Miami case. What Oregon did was worse than turning a blind eye to illicit payments being made to athletes, and they didn't even get a bowl ban.

[entropy]

I dunno, Hanni.

The rumblings I've heard is that the NCAA is not too happy with Miami.

While they may not get "sanduskyed" .. I suspect they're going to have significant penalties.

I guess we'll see soon

they are also in the ACC... so punishment will be tougher than say..... i don't know... if they were in the SEC

[entropy]

None of these are B1G tie-ins, but I'm sure from say Ohio's perspective, these are more attractive destinations than Mobile, Boise or Detroit.


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Hey, you, college football fan, you like bowl games, right? Good thing, because college football is reportedly about to add two more to its already well-stocked roster.

ESPN reported Tuesday that bowl games in both the Bahamas and Boca Raton, Fla., will be played in 2014, raising the number of games to at least 38. The Bahamas Bowl will be held in Nassau, the island nation's capital, and will be the first bowl game played outside the United States since Toronto's International Bowl folded following the 2010 season.

Both games will feature teams from Conference USA, with the Bahamas Bowl expected to pair the C-USA representative against one from the MAC, ESPN reported. The Boca Raton game will feature the C-USA against a team from the American Athletic Conference, Mountain West or MAC.

With four other primary bowl agreements announced Tuesday, C-USA will boast six such agreements starting with the 2014 season, as wel las partial tie-ins with other bowls.

Per ESPN, the Boca Raton game -- which does not as of yet have a title of title sponsor -- will be played at FAU's 29,000-seat on-campus stadium. (Yes, the same stadium once nicknamed "Owlcatraz.") The Bahamas Bowl will be played at 15,000-seat Thomas Robinson Stadium.

The Bahamas was one of multiple international sites considering hosting a bowl game, but overseas locations such as Dubai or Dublin are now out of the picture, per CBSSports.com's Jeremy Fowler.

The Sun Belt and the MAC are partners in the new "Camellia Bowl" in Montgomery, Ala., which was announced Monday and is also set to kick off in 2014.

For some traditional college football fans and media members, 38 bowls is far, far too many. But with plenty of quality college football teams and star players toiling out of the limelight during the "Group of Five" conferences' regular seasons, bowls like the Bahamas, Boca, and Montgomery games that give them a chance to finally grab a share of the spotlight -- and that give curious fans a chance to actually see them -- means the positives for the sport far, far outweigh the negatives.

And if you disagree, well, ask yourself again in December.