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Commissioner John Swofford has no plans to split ACC into three divisions
The ACC has no plans to move to three divisions if the NCAA passes conference championship deregulation.
CBSSports.com reported last week that deregulation was expected to pass by 2016 and the site quoted Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby as stating that he thought the ACC would use the opportunity to move to three divisions.
ACC commissioner John Swofford told ESPN.com that there’s no truth to those rumors.
"Our purpose behind initiating that discussion was really not about anything specific we would necessarily do, but based on the whole deregulation of a number of NCAA issues in recent years," Swofford told ESPN.com. "We said over and over again that doesn't mean we would necessarily change anything within our own league.
"We just feel conferences should have the opportunity to do that both in terms of the number of teams in a league and whether you can have a championship as well as how you determine which teams play in that championship game. During these conversations, we haven't had any real discussion about a three-division ACC. That has never had any legs in our discussions and so far, any change to what we're doing now has not had any real legs."
The ACC and the Big 12 submitted the legislation last year to change the rule that requires conferences to have 12 teams to host a conference championship game. The Big 12’s motive is obvious. It has only 10 teams and has maintained that it didn’t need a championship game since every team plays every other team throughout the season. However, the lack of a conference title game came back to bite the Big 12 when the College Football Playoff committee cited that as one of the reasons the Big 12 was shut out of the inaugural College Football Playoff. Since then, Bowlsby has said his conference has discussed multiple options, from this new regulation to expansion, as a way to rectify the problem.
The ACC’s decision to join the deregulation plight was a little baffling. The conference has 14 teams and a conference title game that has served it well in past seasons.
Swofford told ESPN.com that he’s pushing for this legislation as a matter of principle, not to enact some radical change to his conference.
"I think the fact that we were supporting this in principle and felt it was the right route to go, it gives people the impression that we have a specific direction we would take things in in our league that's different than what we're currently doing," Swofford told ESPN.com. "That's just not the case."
The new legislation will be discussed at an NCAA Football Oversight Committee meeting later this month. Bowlsby is the chairman of that committee. Final approval would come from the NCAA Council.
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Rice, Scott: Better to keep CFP at four teams
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Condi Rice, Larry Scott in favor of keeping the CFP at just four teams
Want to expand the College football Playoff?
Well, you’ll have to convince CFP committee member Condoleeza Rice it’s the right thing to do.
Rice, along with Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott, was a keynote speaker at the Stanford Graduate School of Business Sports Innovation Conference on Wednesday. Both were asked about possibly expanding the playoff and Rice towed the company line.
"I feel pretty strongly about four now because I thought that the rivalry weekend — that Saturday after Thanksgiving — almost felt like a play-in game," said Rice, per ESPN's Heather Dinich. "Now the Iron Bowl, Alabama has to beat Auburn. You could imagine the circumstances in another year where the Civil War, Oregon really has to beat Oregon State. There are questions whether they will.
"I agree that if it got much larger, I don't think you would have that momentum coming out of the regular season, so it's the best possible scenario."
A lot of people would agree with Rice's reasoning. We all want the rivalry games to mean something and with so few spots in the College Football Playoff, they do, especially in the SEC.
However, there’s still the argument that it’s ludicrous to have five power conferences and just four spots, but even Scott said he didn’t envision the playoff scenario changing, at least through the 12-year duration of the current contract, and he cited the drama the small field creates.
"I think we're all lamenting regular-season college basketball not being more popular right now, at a time when March Madness has never been more popular," Scott said. "To me, that's a great example of the field being so big that the regular season doesn't matter anymore.
"There's something about that drama, that tension that makes it very special and keeps a lot of value in the regular season, which is good for all of our schools."
Scott also mentioned the academic calendar as one of the reasons for the lack of expansion, and that did come into play during the national championship game when Ohio State was allowed more practice time because its students were still on a semester break while Oregon had returned to school the week leading up to the game.
What do you think? Is one season enough to make calls for a playoff change or do we need to let it play out for a few years and evaluate the process before making a real push for change?
My theory is that while yes, there were probably six teams that deserved to get into the playoff this season, the four teams that got in sure made for a fun run. I enjoy the exclusivity. I enjoy the idea that every game matters whether it’s early or late. If I had any gripe with the College Football Playoff, it’s the weekly rankings, which meant very little. The criteria for those rankings seemed to change weekly and when it came down to the final rankings — the ones that actually mattered — the protocol that had determined the standings in previous weeks was totally thrown out the window.
But those aren’t going away because they generate intrigue and ratings, which translates to money for ESPN. So there's no use in complaining about that. Speaking of those rankings though, the College Football Playoff committee met in Indianapolis earlier this month and decided to go with one fewer weekly ranking since the season starts a week later. That means, the weekly rankings would start Nov. 3. The proposal must be approved by the playoff's management committee, which is made up of the 10 FBS commissioners and Notre Dame AD Jack Swarbrick, when they meet later this month in Dallas.
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Report: Group pushing for Navy-Notre Dame game in San Diego
According to the Associated Press, the San Diego Bowl Game Association – the group that puts on the Holiday and Poinsettia Bowls – is in “preliminary talks with Navy to move its home game against Notre Dame to Qualcomm Stadium in either 2016 or 2018.”
The San Diego Bowl Game Association is certainly familiar with the folks at Navy. The Midshipmen have played in the Poinsettia Bowl four times – more than any other program. Most recently, Navy knocked off San Diego State 17-16 in last season’s game.
Mark Neville, the group’s executive director, said that Navy has been receptive to the idea, in large part due to the large Naval Base in the city.
“It aligns with our mission of generating tourism for San Diego and exposure,” Neville told the AP. “Of course Navy-Notre Dame would be a pretty attractive, high-profile event for our region. It certainly doesn’t hurt to talk with them about it.”
“Navy has a great fan base in San Diego. That’s kind of natural.”
Navy and Notre Dame have played on a yearly basis since 1927. Navy’s home games in the series are played in even-numbered years with recent games being played in Landover, Md., Dublin, Ireland, East Rutherford, N.J., and Baltimore.
The Fighting Irish are scheduled to host the Midshipmen in South Bend on Oct. 10 in this upcoming season.
For more Notre Dame news, visit BlueAndGold.com.
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Scott Frost says he's gotten some dumb questions about Mariota
The 2014 Heisman winner is a projected top pick in April 30's NFL draft and, predictably, he's been under intense scrutiny from the teams who are interested in his services.
So Frost has been quizzed about all things Mariota, including the quarterback's attitude, which, perplexingly, has been questioned as too nice. It's a notion that Frost calls ridiculous.
"Some of them were great questions and some of them were some of the dumbest questions I've ever heard," Frost said via OregonLive.com on the questions he's gotten from scouts. "I think it's ridiculous to think Marcus is too nice to play football. If that was the case, he wouldn't have won so many games around here."
In 41 games as Oregon's starting quarterback, Mariota threw for 10,796 yards, 105 touchdowns and 14 interceptions. His teams were 36-5 in those games and he scored a 33 on the Wonderlic test.
The first questioning of Mariota's niceness came in comments published in Sports Illustrated in October when the entity published a quote from a scout saying Mariota may apologize to you for punching him in the stomach. The hyperbole is typical of NFL scouts when granted anonymity.
And, honestly, it's not that surprising that Mariota's polite demeanor is being picked apart. This is the same league that has had scouts from teams allegedly shadow Jameis Winston on planes earlier this year. And no one can forget what Dolphins management said to Dez Bryant in a combine interview before the Cowboys drafted him.
NFL people are paranoid because drafting the next Ryan Leaf or JaMarcus Russell can cost them their jobs. The paranoia doesn't excuse the ridiculousness, but with all the game film from players' college careers already picked apart at this point, teams are desperate for any bits of new information. And in turn, apparently means a lot of dumb questions.
Only two more weeks until the draft.
For more Oregon news, visit DuckSportsAuthority.com.
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Bowling Green CB Nick Johnson arrested, charged with assault
According to the Toledo Blade, Johnson, a second-team All-MAC selection in 2014, allegedly struck the woman “with a closed fist” and “then choked” her. The alleged incident occurred on April 6 “in a parked car” on Bowling Green’s campus at 10:37 p.m., according to school spokesman Dave Kielmeyer.
Johnson was reportedly dating the woman involved.
Johnson has been charged with a misdemeanor assault and had a preliminary hearing on Wednesday. The program announced Tuesday that he has been suspended indefinitely from the team.
Kielmeyer told the Blade that the investigation is “ongoing” and that Johnson will be subjected to the school’s disciplinary process.
This is Johnson’s third run-in with police in recent months.
From the Blade:
This is the third on-campus incident involving Johnson and police since Feb. 2. On that date, the 18-year-old was charged with theft after falsifying information to obtain a ‘lock-out’ key, which would allow him access to another student’s room. That charge was reduced to a misdemeanor of unauthorized use of property. Johnson was given a 30-day suspended sentence and fined $350 on the amended plea.
Additionally, Johnson was charged with disorderly conduct on March 19 for a fight with his roommate.
On March 19, Johnson was charged along with Bria Baker with disorderly conduct-fighting. On that day, according to police reports, Baker kicked Johnson out of an apartment they were sharing and, eventually, the pair stopped at Lot C on campus, where Baker threw Johnson’s belongings around the lot and scratched his face.
The 6-foot-2, 178-pound Johnson was a true freshman in 2014 and led the MAC with five interceptions. He also registered 72 tackles and 13 passes defended.
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