Column: Revisiting the Two-Playoff Concept

Right now, officially D1A has a rule that you can only play in one postseason. So if that were to happen on the D1A level on the men's side, I think they would have to make some changes in, I think it's called their competition agreement and bylaws. I don't even know what it's called. 

Competition Participation Agreement, which I think might happen. I think we're going to see some movement on that and we're going to see something where a team actually does one or two maybe plays an NCR-ish schedule in the fall, plays into the playoffs, tries to win that championship and flip around and play games in the spring and goes to a CRAA playoff.

And really that isn't all that much different from say, what teams in the Rocky Mountain do, Rocky Mountain or the Rugby East. Those are fall conferences, but they're playing to a spring championship where they play different non conference games in the spring.

So you look at BYU ... plays their conference, they win their conference, they've won their conference every year. Then they turn around and they're playing St. Mary's they're playing Cal, they're playing Arizona, they're playing Grand Canyon. Teams like that in order to get ready for the playoffs. It just happens that it's all under the same umbrella—CRAA. 

What if you're doing exactly that? You just happen to be in the fall playing in an ncr, conference and then you move on to what are non conference games in the spring?

Under D1A, you have to pay that D1A fee and be part of it if that happens, if that's possible. That's a bridge. That's a bridge made of olive trees. Perhaps to understand that there are ways to go about it.

Who's going to like it, who's going to not like it? Well, I think that, I don't know, NCR doesn't love it when their D1 champion isn't close to the top in D1A.

I think they're just going to accept that, accept that until that's not the case anymore and somebody who's the best team in NCR D1 becomes a quarterfinalist or a semifinalist in D1A. And then we can talk about parity, and competition.

Right now that's not happening. That wouldn't happen if we saw the competition. But that's not to say it couldn't happen, especially if you start to see a team play their 9, 10 games all the way through the playoffs at NCRD1 and then flip around and start playing in the winter and spring and put in four, five, six more games in the spring.

That could happen. Keep an eye out for that. And that is another one. So thanks to the sponsors, thanks everyone who supports what we're doing. Hope you're having a great summer. I'm having a great summer. And, we'll see you around.