  Recent experiments indicate that the excitation spectrum of the cuprates is
characterised, in the superconducting state, by two energy scales: the
``coherence energy'' \Delta_c and the ``pseudogap'' \Delta_p. Here we consider
a simple generalisation of the BCS model that yields exotic pairing and can
describe, phenomenologically, the generic trends in the critical temperature
T_c of cuprate superconductors. We use the model to predict the gap in the
single-particle spectrum arising from the superconductivity and we find
evidence that it corresponds to the lower of the two energy scales, \Delta_c,
seen in the experiments. This supports the view that the origin of the
pseudogap is not superconducting fluctuations.
