Barta wants to raise eligibility bar

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The University of Iowa's top athletics department administrator wants to improve the quality of teams that participate in bowl games.

Hawkeyes athletics director Gary Barta, who says he feels a playoff system is inevitable, favors increasing the NCAA's minimum postseason eligibility requirement from six victories to seven for teams playing 12-game regular seasons.

"The six-win requirement was established when there were 11 games in the regular season," Barta said. "Six wins represented a winning season. When the schedule was switched to 12 games, we didn't change the bowl requirement from six to seven.

"With a 12-game schedule, seven represents a winning season. That's a good barometer in my opinion."

Sixty teams with .500 regular-season records have played in bowl games since colleges were allowed to play 12-game regular seasons in 2006, including Iowa that season.

The Hawkeyes were not invited to a bowl after going 6-6 in 2007.
 




I don't like it, I would still rather see a 6-6 Iowa or any other BCS school in a bowl over a 7-5 Sun Belt or Mac school. You would also have to eliminate a few bowls. I know some of you would be in favor of it but I enjoy them.
 


Easy Gary lets not get cocky from the back to back 7 win seasons. I know Iowa is on a magical high but to say KF can keep this up is just crazy talk.
 




Not only that - but you were only allowed to count FCS victories every other year towards a bowl eligibility.

Look, these bowl games are disasters, horribly attended and nothing more than a 3 hour long commercial for Little Caesars Pizza.

The idea, that a team plays two FCS opponents and then goes 4-6 against FBS opponents, two of which are against the MAC, and then go to a bowl game is moronic.

Lastly, it doesn't surprise me that this is coming from AD's. You see it is coaches and their agents that push for this.

Why? Bonus for bowl game appearance. Bowl game still carries a stigma of a successful season...
 




I like what Gary is saying. Would it carry much weight if Michigan or OSU said it should be 7? No cause they'll easily get 7 every year. But with Iowa, where 7 is a normal season, some 6 wins this means that they are actually serious about it.
 


hawkfarmer said:
I like what Gary is saying. Would it carry much weight if Michigan or OSU said it should be 7? No cause they'll easily get 7 every year. But with Iowa, where 7 is a normal season, some 6 wins this means that they are actually serious about it.
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It probably would mean moar if OSU or Michigan said it. Who really cares what Barry has to say? When is le last time Francis or Kert gave any mind to what Barry said?
 


BSpringsteen said:
The idea, that a team plays two FCS opponents and then goes 4-6 against FBS opponents, two of which are against the MAC, and then go to a bowl game is moronic.
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When has this ever happened? I thought they could only count 1 win against a FCS opponent?
 




Fine by me. I don't care to see 6-6 teams playing in bowl games. That's not even a winning record. I don't care WHO you are.. If you can't win more games than you lose, you don't deserve a bowl game.

Only question is that if you require 7 wins, there may not be enough teams to fill all these bowl games (of which there are WAY too many). There are a lot of mediocre teams playing in bowl games these days.
 




GhostofBTT said:
It probably would mean moar if OSU or Michigan said it. Who really cares what Barry has to say? When is le last time Francis or Kert gave any mind to what Barry said?
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The way I see it is that if the kid getting As in every class says, why not raise the average of the curve from 70 to 80 doesn't mean much to a professor than if a kid getting 70 or 80 says it. I know it doesn't work that way but to me if enough of the guys that can get burned by the rule are for changing it that says more to me than guys who will be there anyway wanting to change it.
 


1977Hawkeye said:
Only question is that if you require 7 wins, there may not be enough teams to fill all these bowl games (of which there are WAY too many). There are a lot of mediocre teams playing in bowl games these days.
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Yeah, I mean what would we do with the Beaf O'Brady's Bowl?
 


The major motivation in my mind to attend ANY bowl is the additional practice time that bowl teams get. I think it is extremely unfair to non bowledgeable teams to have their practice end at the end of the season. This is major developmental time for underclassman. Allow additional practice at season end untill the bowl season is over for all teams.
 


if these small bowls are not making money, then why do they continue to have them?

eventually the crappy bowls will be weeded out due to economics if the interest from teams and fans isnt there. until that happens, i find it hard to justify getting rid of them. as if 8-4 or 9-3 is really that much different from 7-5.
 


9YRPLAN said:
if these small bowls are not making money, then why do they continue to have them?

eventually the crappy bowls will be weeded out due to economics if the interest from teams and fans isnt there. until that happens, i find it hard to justify getting rid of them. as if 8-4 or 9-3 is really that much different from 7-5.
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That's the problem with college football right there. Someone can't tell the difference between 7-5 and 9-3.
 


I would absolutely be in favor of a minimum 7 wins to get into a bowl game. It is ridiculous how many bowl games there are and ridiculous how many teams -- as a result -- get to go to a bowl game. Now, I get the side of it that the experience for the players has to be pretty cool ... I think it just waters down the field a bit ... Sort of a 'let's give everyone a ribbon' philosophy. ... I think 7 is the absolute minimum ... I had to laugh ... because of course that other AD in Iowa wants to see the minimum remain as is ...
 




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