(04-23-2014 06:39 PM)JCGSU Wrote:  

(04-23-2014 06:01 PM)cleburneslim Wrote:  The push begins.
In the near future the p5
will not allow participation from the g5 in any playoff.
will no longer feel obliged to honor promises made
playoff money will cease
a true and definate split will occur.

rationale: why would they? Would you give money and oppurtunity to compete to those you do not have to?

the g5 will do what they can to keep up but in the end success will depend on how television treats the g5.
will they televise their games and thus provide revenue or will they be overlooked as irrelevant.
Like the fcs will they be starved for attention and dollars?

The G5 is not completely powerless. Who just won the womens and mens NCAA tournament? Basketball and baseball to a lesser extent still gives the G5 a voice. Trust me the Dukes, Wake Forests, Vandy, Colorado, etc etc of the world does not want a complete split and only have a chance at four win seasons at best in football from here to eternity and certainly does not any threat of a blown up March Madness. The P5 football schools can only horde and push so much, there is a breaking point at which the G5's will start doing the math and might come to the conclusion a split would not be the worst thing. I think we might find it soon.

Except the costs aren't going to be that bad.

Remember, the P5 gave the G5 more of the CFP money than the G5 were prepared to fight for. That money will cover the added costs with money left over.

The P5 are NOT going to offer student-athletes benefits in excess of the cost of attendance because it will make them true employees and endanger their tax exemption and trigger coverage under the school benefit programs, worker's comp, and even worse... create respondeat superior liability if say a football player gropes a lab partner, the class is part of his employment and the university potentially liable for the sexual assault. If a basketball player is driving from class to the arena for practice and strikes and kills a pedestrian the school is quite likely liable because that travel would be within the scope of the student's employment.

The bigger economic issue for the G5 is not matching stipends or making sure student-athletes have access to snacks when the cafeteria is closed. The threat is rising salaries. When Harsin and Anderson came to AState, there was no shock nor surprise because both went from being coordinators to head coach AND received raises. Malzahn coming to AState was a surprise because he took a cut in pay.

We are already in a place where any P5 can offer to a pay G5 head coach more than they make. But what may change is being in a position where most P5 coordinators make more than virtually any G5 head coach. That will make it more difficult to make notable hires and shrink the quality applicant pool. A P5 position coach opting to take a G5 coordinator position will less often be an easy financial and professional decision.

But that is coming whether the P5 make their own rules or not.