Perfect Playoff Bracket

[canadarican]

I mean, an 8-team playoff that had 6 SEC teams and then 2 other P5 champions would probably be the best representation of the best teams in college football. Not much different from D2 needing to be a whole bunch of SR3 teams, a good amount of SR2 teams, and then a couple SR4 teams and maybe one SR1 team.

SEC should break off and be there own level of football. 16 team double bye bracket like the old Big East basketball.

[canadarican]

That was brutal to watch.

That was felony assault.

[GorillaTeacher]

Sorry, Last year MOSO in the conference tourney. Two years ago was UCM.

[GorillaTeacher]

I agree that Pitt men's bball sucks, but they are working on it with a new coach. Track, football, cc, and softball are all competitive. Baseball is pretty meh. Women's basketball is pretty good. I have no idea about funding levels for those sports other than football, though.

Pitt used to have golf but they canceled it as they couldn't afford to make it competitive. They now offer golf, rugby and soccer as club sports along with a few other club sports.

lacrosse and hockey pretty much don't exist in our part of the country.

As an aside.. High school Wrestling is pretty big in parts of OK, KS, IA and NE. Title 9 all but killed it in D2, though. I hope it will make a comeback in small colleges now that there are more women in the sport.

Pitt does have a privately sponsored bass fishing team. I think that's hilarious.

I think you're reversed on these. Last couple years baseball teams lost in the conference tournament to UCM, who almost everyone loses to, They're working on softball and men's basketball. Title IX isn't just pure numbers, its also funding levels.

There is a reason wrestling was removed from the Olympics. LOL

[Runnin' Cat]

Pitt does have a privately sponsored bass fishing team. I think that's hilarious.

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[IUPNation]

I agree that Pitt men's bball sucks, but they are working on it with a new coach. Track, football, cc, and softball are all competitive. Baseball is pretty meh. Women's basketball is pretty good. I have no idea about funding levels for those sports other than football, though.

Pitt used to have golf but they canceled it as they couldn't afford to make it competitive. They now offer golf, rugby and soccer as club sports along with a few other club sports.

lacrosse and hockey pretty much don't exist in our part of the country.

As an aside.. High school Wrestling is pretty big in parts of OK, KS, IA and NE. Title 9 all but killed it in D2, though. I hope it will make a comeback in small colleges now that there are more women in the sport.

Pitt does have a privately sponsored bass fishing team. I think that's hilarious.

Well...IUP is pretty good at a few sports too. Do any of you look at our schools beyond foosball and see what they offer and how they compete?

Title IX killed men's soccer and wrestling at IUP. It killed Women's Gymnastics for some reason and they won the D2 National Title twice when I was a student. I don't know how that happens. I guess they had to axe that and add sports that had more players on the team. Not sure.

[IUPNation]

I mean, an 8-team playoff that had 6 SEC teams and then 2 other P5 champions would probably be the best representation of the best teams in college football. Not much different from D2 needing to be a whole bunch of SR3 teams, a good amount of SR2 teams, and then a couple SR4 teams and maybe one SR1 team.

A bunch of SR 3 teams when the first round of SR 3 was exceedingly uncompetitive.

Funny...Ferris Beat West Flori-duh by 21 and Mines beat Shepherd by 31 in the Semi's. Ferris beat Mines by 27 in the Finals

The last three games in D2 were anything but compelling. The only thing compelling about the D2 playoffs this year was the second and third round of Region 3.

This whole thing is because Northwest Misery and Pittsburg(H) State are stuck with Ferris Bueller and There Is No Valley There It's Just a Gulley U.

Dear NCAA...please divorce the MIAA and GLIAC from Region 3 and balance it back out so we can have some peace and quiet.

[Predatory Primates]

I agree that Pitt men's bball sucks, but they are working on it with a new coach. Track, football, cc, and softball are all competitive. Baseball is pretty meh. Women's basketball is pretty good. I have no idea about funding levels for those sports other than football, though.

Pitt used to have golf but they canceled it as they couldn't afford to make it competitive. They now offer golf, rugby and soccer as club sports along with a few other club sports.

lacrosse and hockey pretty much don't exist in our part of the country.

As an aside.. High school Wrestling is pretty big in parts of OK, KS, IA and NE. Title 9 all but killed it in D2, though. I hope it will make a comeback in small colleges now that there are more women in the sport.

Pitt does have a privately sponsored bass fishing team. I think that's hilarious.

[KleShreen]

Perfect playoff bracket after watching yet another SEC national championship.

Wait until Texas and OU join, then do a 16 team SEC only playoff bracket.

I mean, an 8-team playoff that had 6 SEC teams and then 2 other P5 champions would probably be the best representation of the best teams in college football. Not much different from D2 needing to be a whole bunch of SR3 teams, a good amount of SR2 teams, and then a couple SR4 teams and maybe one SR1 team.

[DawgUp]

Perfect playoff bracket after watching yet another SEC national championship.

Wait until Texas and OU join, then do a 16 team SEC only playoff bracket.

That was brutal to watch.

[canadarican]

Perfect playoff bracket after watching yet another SEC national championship.

Wait until Texas and OU join, then do a 16 team SEC only playoff bracket.

[GorillaTeacher]

I don’t think anyone here is claiming FBS is anywhere close to right. They’re probably furthest from a correct system.

[IUPNation]

Looks like even FBS can’t get “the best teams” in the brackets.

If only they had invited an MIAA team to play Jawja then it might have been a better game. HA!

[KleShreen]

Maybe you don’t need to sponsor so many sports. I believe all 10 of our sports are fully funded. But it’s different when 1 sport has 120 scholarship players, and the next closest has maybe 20.

Yep. At GVSU, at least as of around 2017, the only men's sports fully funded were football, basketball, and golf. Baseball, tennis, track/xc, swimming & diving were only partially funded at anywhere between 30-90% of the maximum scholarship equivalency amount. I don't know if that's still the case or not. I know that when GV's baseball team went 52-5 one year (52-3 before the world series lol), they only had I think 2.7 scholarships out of a possible...8 at the time? One of the more impressive things I've seen.

The women's sports I believe were all over 90% funded, with most of them fully funded.

[IUPNation]

We just canned our head coach that had spent the the last couple years phoning it in after D1 stints and a D2 national championship career. I have no doubt the school is committed to getting a National winning program built. What’s being penalized about not offering sports to have warm bodies and increase your enrollment?

I wish I could find that spread sheet someone shared about Pitts scholarship funding. Iirc all 10 were close to full equivalency funded.

You are assuming having field hockey, lacrosse, soccer, golf, tennis and swimming/diving as warm body sports. IUP has those teams and the Men’s Golf and Women’s Tennis teams are nationally competitive.