If (by chance) we don't get into a bowl game....

[44PRIDE]

...do we still get the 15 practices for being a bowl "qualifier"?

 

[Whitey23]

...do we still get the 15 practices for being a bowl "qualifier"?

We do not.

 

[Trueblue25]

Ooo.

 

[orange79]

I posted in relation to this a couple times yesterday - if we are eligible, and don't get a bowl, we should just do the extra 15 practices anyway. 'em. Easier to ask for forgiveness than for permission.

 

[Hoo's That]

The conference will do everything it can to get you into a bowl game. There's a lot of criticism that can be leveled at Greensboro about a lot of things, but their effort to get post-season bids for teams is above criticism.

 

[OrangeXtreme]

What's to prevent the players from having an informal "workout" without the coaches present?

 

[orange79]

What's to prevent the players from having an informal "workout" without the coaches present?

Nothing. And if someone were to live-steam it to the coaches' offices, well, how're you going to stop the interwebs?

 

[44PRIDE]

The conference will do everything it can to get you into a bowl game. There's a lot of criticism that can be leveled at Greensboro about a lot of things, but their effort to get post-season bids for teams is above criticism.

Given their recent history, the ACC has been waiting for a Football season like this. FSU is contending for a national championship and a record number of teams are bowl qualified.

I'd have to think they'd be doing everything in their power to get every team a spot (including MD), but it still doesn't help the "pucker" factor to be the bubble team of the bunch...

 

[NKR1978]

The conference will do everything it can to get you into a bowl game. There's a lot of criticism that can be leveled at Greensboro about a lot of things, but their effort to get post-season bids for teams is above criticism.

Which will be a nice change from the Big East. Shortly after our move announced there was an interview with Mike Tranghese saying that he wished he tried harder to get us into a bowl one of the years we got screwed out of one.

 

[dollarbill44]

I think the extra 15 practices is unfair to teams that don't make a bowl. I get the need to allow the bowl teams to continue to practice. I would like to see the non-bowl teams get 5 more practices in the spring to even things out a bit.

 

[BlazeOrange]

It's probably moot since the coaches are apparently travelling to visit recruits this week, but when would those 15 practices be held?

Right now, our season is over and we are bowl eligible. I assume that the team doesn't have to sit in limbo until the rest of the games/bowl tie-ins work themselves out. So, until all of the bowl announcements are made, we should be able to continue practicing in anticipation of being in one.

Obviously, you want to save a bunch to implement a game plan, but they could get several practices in before the hammer falls (if it does). More if the tea leave reader says we will probably be left out and less if we have word of a pending invitation.

 

[Pyle]

Not exactly what's being discussed here but right along the same lines so figure it still fits in this thread:

Can teams keep practicing until after Championships are played? Or do FSU and Duke get an extra 3-4 practices this week that rest of us(even bowl eligible teams not in a conf championship) do not?

 

[storange]

...do we still get the 15 practices for being a bowl "qualifier"?

we are 99.9 %

 

[shantydaze]

The conference will do everything it can to get you into a bowl game. There's a lot of criticism that can be leveled at Greensboro about a lot of things, but their effort to get post-season bids for teams is above criticism.

I would hope the ACC would be doing everything in its power to get all bowl eligible teams in games. The ACC shares bowl revenue amongst the entire conference. Therefore, the more teams in bowl games, the more revenue all conference members receive.

 

[44PRIDE]

Not exactly what's being discussed here but right along the same lines so figure it still fits in this thread:

Can teams keep practicing until after Championships are played? Or do FSU and Duke get an extra 3-4 practices this week that rest of us(even bowl eligible teams not in a conf championship) do not?

I'd imagine they get extra practice time...

 

[Scooch]

The whole extra-practice thing is yet another hysterical bit of hypocrisy from the NCAA/college presidents on why we can't...gasp...have an extensive playoff.

So having, say, a 16 team playoff would be far too much of a burden on the student-athletes, because that would mean 8 teams would play 1 extra game, 4 would play 2, and 2 would play 3. Basically 4 of the 120 FBS teams would have a burden. Meanwhile SEVENTY teams are going to have 15 additional practices in December, some during Finals -- practices all those 16 playoff teams would be having in prep for said playoff games anyway -- and 12 of those 16 would probably end up having less than those 15 practices.

So funny.

 

[HoustonCuse]

With four teams on the snub list, can't there be some sort of "scrimmage" arranged between the pairs in order to cash in the extra practices?

 

[All4SU]

The whole extra-practice thing is yet another hysterical bit of hypocrisy from the NCAA/college presidents on why we can't...gasp...have an extensive playoff.

So having, say, a 16 team playoff would be far too much of a burden on the student-athletes, because that would mean 8 teams would play 1 extra game, 4 would play 2, and 2 would play 3. Basically 4 of the 120 FBS teams would have a burden. Meanwhile SEVENTY teams are going to have 15 additional practices in December, some during Finals -- practices all those 16 playoff teams would be having in prep for said playoff games anyway -- and 12 of those 16 would probably end up having less than those 15 practices.

So funny.

Exactly. And if it is too many games, then cut back the regular season to 11 games.
They had no difficulty adding the 12th game and the conference championship games. As you say, hypocrisy.