The James Madison Dukes (9-0, 6-0 Solar Belt) are off to an unbelievable begin to the 2023 season, however with out the assistance of the NCAA Board of Administrators, they doubtless will not even play in a bowl sport.
That is as a result of the No. 21 Dukes are in solely their second season of competing within the Soccer Bowl Subdivision (previously referred to as Division I-A), the very best degree of faculty soccer. The NCAA would not let new FBS groups play in bowls for his or her first two seasons.
The Virginia attorney general even tried to intervene however to no avail.
Nonetheless, the college has yet one more card to play: they’re asking the NCAA Board of Administrators to offer a waiver for the streaking Dukes.
“Our college has launched into this transition in ways in which no different establishment has for the reason that transition guidelines modified 23 years in the past, and our student-athletes have achieved an astonishing, unprecedented degree of success throughout this era,” James Madison officers wrote in a letter to Board Chair Jere Morehead. “Aid that permits our student-athletes to take part in a bowl sport, as their play has earned, is warranted.”
The NCAA put out a press release saying the request can be reviewed “in a well timed method,” in response to the Athletic’s Nicole Auerbach.