KSmith,
Decaturg,
Out of courtesy wouldn't it be good of FAMU to tell these folks they going to stay at IAA? Some of these schools thought they were playing you to help out in the IA move. Also, most of these schools will be penalized if they play a IAA program. How do you think FAMU will resolve this?
Do not forget. Even if Florida A & M University decides to inform the NCAA that they are
moving back down to the NCAA Division I AA level. They will still
remain as a NCAA Division I A
provisional program for the
2004-2005 calendar year. So, they will not hurt their NCAA Division I A opponents. This is will only come into play on the issue of return visits depending on the contractual agreements.
They will still have to follow the NCAA guidelines that will require them to follow a two year probationary period as they now would transition back down to the NCAA Division I AA level. During those two years they would be a NCAA Division I AA
provisional program. Further more, in my opinion, they would not be eligible for the NCAA Division I AA playoffs under the current NCAA bylaws.
No matter, what decision they make now, as a football program for the next three years, in my opinion. They will be in purgatory for lack of appropriate term. They will be in a holding pattern.
I do not think people reconize that the NCAA is not set-up in away that would just allow programs to move from level to level at a given notice and return to a level at a given notice without having to deal with the recourses.
