Susan Ferrari wrote: >Umm...I'm not sure you understood what I said. If the team that wins >your SCT has bonus conversion, ppth, and powers and whatever-else that >are comparable to other good teams across the country, I think it >should get a bid. To take your example from last year, McGill, which >won the D2 title in its sectional, had stats that, on a quick glance, >compare pretty well with other teams that won bids. The teams that I >mentioned in my previous post do not. > > Susan: I understood completely what you said. What you're suggesting is analgous to the NCAA telling conferences such as the Southland and the Sun Belt that they're going to take away their guaranteed spot in the NCAA tournament just because they're not as strong as the ACC or the Big 10. The ICT needs to be representative of every region on the continent, and while I'm not expecting a half-dozen bids out of Canada-East, I think it is very important that each sectional's winner be invited, no matter what their statistics happen to be. That way, teams do feel that by putting up a good performance against other teams in their region, they receive that opportunity to represent the other teams from their region at the top level. Additionally, this year, Eastern Canadian teams also aren't as terrible as you paint us, as well. Eastern Canadian teams have gone up against, and soundly defeated, teams from well-established (and even ranked!) American programs (Brock vs. Michigan back in October in Rochester, Ottawa over Brandeis at this past SCT) Andy
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