The current system is built to service about 8-12 schools. Go look at all the National Championships that are the most mainstream accepted like the AP, BCS, and the Playoff. It's been the same handful of teams winning them every year. 90% of the FBS doesn't factor in. Bama, tOSU, Oklahoma, USC, PSU, Notre Dame, Texas, Michigan, and possibly UGA and Florida are the only schools that really matter in the grand scheme of the way CFB is set up. They're the teams that can lose a game and sometimes two and still end up playing for a national championship. Schools like Clemson and Oregon have come on the scene in the last decade, but they don't have the same pull as Bama or Ohio State. I don't know what to do with FSU at this point.
It's why the Big XII has been so unstable for the last two 10-15 years. OU and Texas do whatever they want and change the rules on the fly and amount of protesting from the other members schools have any affect.
These schools have way too much control now and they're never going to let it go. They're protecting their money and they don't want to share.
I mean we feel victimized, but the real victims are schools like WVU, Purude, Northwestern, NCST, and the rest of the middle P5 that they have a seat at the table and burn through 10s of millions every year and get almost nothing out of it. Once they have an off game they're out of it. Doesn't matter if it's game 1 or game 12. Bama can not even win their division and they play for a national championship. Notre Dame can do whatever they want schedule wise and they're always in. tOSU can not play half their season and still be in the "playoff".
It's all a joke. The G5 really just needs to accept the reality that we're never going to be allowed in and we're burning through too many resources trying to have a "magical" season.
The only way this gets fixed is when the rest of college football finally wakes up from brainwashed trance the networks have put everyone in and say enough is enough.
If the G5 stopped playing the P5 it would hurt the bottom of the P5 a lot more than the G5. Schools like UK and Baylor that depend on cupcake OoC schedules to prop of their seasons would really start to hate life once they'd have to have all P5s in their OoC. The G5's reality really wouldn't change that much.
Eh, from 1979-2009 Bama won exactly 1 NC...I get what you're saying but prior to Saban, they weren't exactly filling the trophy case.
But that's the thing, plenty of schools with no recent history, actually could legitmately take the entirety of Bama's team and not think twice about it. They just simply don't and the media covering for Bama, doesn't want to shift a narrative.
You really think a school like Stanford, if they wanted to, couldn't buy half the SEC's rosters from a single donor, then become a mega powerhouse?
They don't because they apply academic integrity, but I think the top schools know, if they tried to leave some schools behind, said schools would absolutely take their resources.
I agree that the lower tier of the P5 is going to be hit the hardest...the essential middle class, who has to pay the most, relative to their program's income.
Then again, how does one really measure the value of an AD for a school?
Is it really wins/NC's or is it money?
Plenty of schools you named, haven't won a title in decades, so does this mean name recognition?
There doesn't seem to be any solid measure of what a successful/top program is. Again, Stanford or Vanderbilt have plenty more money than Bama or Clemson and it's not even close, but somehow Bama and Clemson are considered top tier for winning.
Plus, places like Bama and Clemson seem quite fragile...their large investments in coaches and players is working, but 5-8 years of sub-par seasons and they'll end up like Louisville.
So which is it?
I agree the G5 is hurt the least from this because they spend little and get little.
The NCAA needs to man up and just kick CUSA down to FCS, along with the MAC.
Those schools contribute ZERO to the growth of football nor do they seem invested on wanting to do so in the future.
They can keep the SBC, AAC, and MWC.
Cutting down the G5 with conferences that don't want to try, will strengthen the appeal of those remaining.
Marshall and the G5 will be fine. If they broke off from us, which we really should, just so the CFP would consist of teams with 3 losses, then so be it.
