Kind of tough to take both student bodies to an overseas venue.

(12-13-2023 03:18 AM)C2__ Wrote:  I mean I'm half joking, I know it'll never happen but both have bases around the world, especially Army. It would serve as a great distraction and taste of home life for those deployed overseas. Granted, it may ruffle the feathers of the home country but some are cooler than others.

Like I said, it won't happen but just throwing it out there.

The military academy do have their games shown on the Armed Forces Network that the bases around the world gets. Yes, they are International. That is why you get football players from American Samoa, Australia, England, Germany, UK and other places in Europe. There are now some players from the Middle East on college teams playing American tackle football. I have seen some players from Japan as well who transfer to colleges and universities in the states as well.

(12-17-2023 10:29 AM)Frank the Tank Wrote:  On your second point, I don’t see how allowing bowl games would be different than where schools can technically play a regular season game on that Army-Navy date if they wanted to do so. I think the powers that be want to let Army-Navy have that date, but also see it as the last non-NFL Saturday of the year and want to maximize the value to the extent possible (knowing that it won’t be putting playoff games there).

1. It's defined by the NCAA as a regular season weekend.

2. The NCAA Postseason Bowl Handbook says bowls "should be conducted within a time period that generally occurs between the end of examination schedules for the first semester or fall term and the start of classes for the second semester or winter term for most member institutions." Specifically, it lists earliest dates for bowl for the next several years:

12/15/2023
12/20/2024
12/19/2025

Note that those are all the Friday after the second Saturday in December.

(12-19-2023 03:51 PM)BeatNavy Wrote:  

(12-17-2023 10:29 AM)Frank the Tank Wrote:  On your second point, I don’t see how allowing bowl games would be different than where schools can technically play a regular season game on that Army-Navy date if they wanted to do so. I think the powers that be want to let Army-Navy have that date, but also see it as the last non-NFL Saturday of the year and want to maximize the value to the extent possible (knowing that it won’t be putting playoff games there).

1. It's defined by the NCAA as a regular season weekend.

2. The NCAA Postseason Bowl Handbook says bowls "should be conducted within a time period that generally occurs between the end of examination schedules for the first semester or fall term and the start of classes for the second semester or winter term for most member institutions." Specifically, it lists earliest dates for bowl for the next several years:

12/15/2023
12/20/2024
12/19/2025

Note that those are all the Friday after the second Saturday in December.

I understand that’s the current rule. There has been a concrete proposal in the NCAA to change that so that bowls could start as early as Army-Navy weekend. It was in conjunction with a proposal to allow all schools ti start playing on what’s currently Week 0:

https://www.si.com/college/2022/09/21/pr...amination.

There just hasn’t been any news on progress about it for a several months.