Comments on: Home stretch

By: Stephen Tsai

Stephen Tsai — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 16:09:35 +0000

New post: http://www.hawaiiwarriorworld.com/?p=26088

By: pollypicador

pollypicador — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 08:31:44 +0000

The 2008 class can be labeled as a special group of seniors-11 first team ALL-WAC team players, Sugar Bowl invite, undefeated regular season. That group was special…great leadership. The current class has done nothing, but except being a part in 4 DUI’s, overhype, underachievement, dwindling attendance figures, bottom rankings and none of these players have any wow factor…in other words a huge disappointment(plus there was an investigation of point shaving) . What hatched from this group was an egg.

By: beans

beans — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 06:40:29 +0000

#62
HUH?

By: markazulu

markazulu — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 05:48:01 +0000

@al decided to put up the part you probably wanted @4prong to read lol
On August 2, 2012, the NCAA Division I Board of Directors approved a significant change to the process to determine bowl eligible teams, going so far as to potentially allow 5-7 teams to go to a bowl, in case there were not enough regular bowl-eligible teams to fill every game. If a bowl has one or more conferences/teams unable to meet their contractual commitments and there are no available bowl-eligible teams, the open spots can be filled – by the particular bowl’s sponsoring agencies – as follows
1.Teams finishing 6-6 with one win against a team from the lower Football Championship Subdivision (FCS), regardless of whether that FCS school meets NCAA scholarship requirements. Until now, an FCS win counted only if that opponent met the scholarship requirements—specifically, that school had to award at least 90% of the FCS maximum of 63 scholarship equivalents over a two-year period. In the 2012 season, programs in four FCS conferences cannot meet the 90% requirement (56.7 equivalents)—the Ivy League, which prohibits all athletic scholarships; the Patriot League and Pioneer Football League, which do not currently award football scholarships; and the Northeast Conference, which limits football scholarships to 38 equivalents.
6-6 teams with two wins over FCS schools.
Teams that finish 6-7 with loss number seven in their conference championship game (that has been eliminated by the conference championship waiver rule).
6-7 teams that normally play a 13-team schedule, such as Hawaii’s home opponents. Although Hawaii normally plays a 13-game schedule, it only played 12 games this season.
FCS teams who are in the final year of the two-year FBS transition process, if they have at least a 6-6 record.
Finally, 5-7 teams that have a top-5 Academic Progress Rate (APR) score. This was later adjusted to allow other 5-7 teams to be selected thereafter—in order of their APR.

By: Brad

Brad — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 05:23:52 +0000

….or the Las Vegas Bowl has the first choice(pick) of the bowl eligible teams in the MW.

By: Brad

Brad — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 05:13:47 +0000

I think 4-prong’s right. If Fresno goes 6-7 after winning the conference title game they are still ineligible to play in any bowl game so whoever was the Mountain division champion even if they lose the title game will still represent the MWC in the Las Vegas Bowl. But Fresno will be the 2014 MWC champion and take the trophy if they win the title game.

By: beans

beans — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 05:00:55 +0000

any tailgate plans for Fresno?

By: al

al — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 04:20:17 +0000

4-prong…read this

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowl_eligibility

By: al

al — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 04:14:44 +0000

Andrew @#22…beau yap for example.

By: kawika49

kawika49 — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 03:54:40 +0000

Ben Jay should just give an invite to any team. Call it the Aloha welcome bowl or whatever.