TexasTerror
September 5th, 2006, 07:52 AM
Glad that Paul Johnson is keeping up with the ins and outs of the NCAA. Doesn't even know what division his team plays in and clearly doesn't know what division I-AA will become.
Q. Obviously there were several I-AA teams that beat I-A teams this past weekend, the most noticeable was Richmond beat Duke. Colorado lost to Montana State.
A. There is no more I-A and I-AA.
Q. What is it called now?
A. The Bowl Championship Series and something else, I don't know.
Q. The point you have made to us a lot in the past is that the upper level I-AA teams or whatever they are called now are pretty good.
A. Yeah, there's not that much difference. Maybe between the Top 10-15 teams in the country there's a big difference, but among most there's not a difference.
Q. I was just talking to Don Brown (UMass head coach) a few minutes ago and I made that point that you had said the Top 20 I-AA teams can beat the mid to lower level I-A teams and he said the only problem with that is that Navy is a Top 25 team.
A. Not in any polls that I've seen.
http://story.scout.com/a.z?s=109&p=2&c=564699
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Random thoughts from UTEP head coach, Mike Price...
"I'd rather be playing the University of San Diego than San Diego State, although the University of San Diego is a pretty darn good Division II school," Price joked, referring to the team coached by Jim Harbaugh, which is actually Division I-AA.
http://www.cumberlink.com/articles/2006/09/05/ap/sports/college/d8jr9d980.txt
Q. Obviously there were several I-AA teams that beat I-A teams this past weekend, the most noticeable was Richmond beat Duke. Colorado lost to Montana State.
A. There is no more I-A and I-AA.
Q. What is it called now?
A. The Bowl Championship Series and something else, I don't know.
Q. The point you have made to us a lot in the past is that the upper level I-AA teams or whatever they are called now are pretty good.
A. Yeah, there's not that much difference. Maybe between the Top 10-15 teams in the country there's a big difference, but among most there's not a difference.
Q. I was just talking to Don Brown (UMass head coach) a few minutes ago and I made that point that you had said the Top 20 I-AA teams can beat the mid to lower level I-A teams and he said the only problem with that is that Navy is a Top 25 team.
A. Not in any polls that I've seen.
http://story.scout.com/a.z?s=109&p=2&c=564699
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Random thoughts from UTEP head coach, Mike Price...
"I'd rather be playing the University of San Diego than San Diego State, although the University of San Diego is a pretty darn good Division II school," Price joked, referring to the team coached by Jim Harbaugh, which is actually Division I-AA.
http://www.cumberlink.com/articles/2006/09/05/ap/sports/college/d8jr9d980.txt