Quote:Our schools are not on the same footing now, but we should be able to get there without being handicapped by official rules or policies which are designed to keep the conferences which are perceived to be on top now, at the top forever, whether they are in fact better or not. This format is crap.
To the degree of having P5 conference champs always be in BCS Bowls -- I can understand that. If there was an equal about of fan-base for all conferences (more or less) -- I would be less understanding of it -- but there'd still be something there: They're better. Better SoS, year in, year out. With the Big East as a P5, yes, a Great Year for the MAC, or a good year for the MW would put them above them -- yeah. I guess you could Technically say "best team of the 5 best rated conferences go" -- but then you still have the fan-base problem which brings in money for All of D1A football.
The issue is making the D1A football money Shared between P5s, leaving the G5s out. That, I have objections to. Those "unofficial" votes by coaches that creep up toward leaving the G5s out of non-conf play -- along with that money separation -- SCREAMS for a separate division
When most conferences go 9 Conf Games, and only 3 non-conf (with 1 of the 3 forcing another P5 team) -- and the bowl situation of P5 vs P5, and G5 vs G5 for 90% of them -- I would rather have a SEPARATE DIVISION. Because basically, in reality, it pretty much puts us at a D1AA level anyway. Mine as well have our own. Soon the American Athletic won't have all those P5 bowl matchups inherited from being the Big East, and they'll just have 1, maybe 2. So with all that going in that direction without any changes to equalize it in any way....
.... I'd rather see us going D1G (General) -- with our own playoff, with P5s playing us 1 non-conf game a year by doing so, and forcing SOME money down to D1G level. It would be a good compromise and both would be happy.
Nay you say?! Well, how would our season be any different? Or most mid-majors? You have a game non-conf, sometimes 2, against a P5 to rake in attendance $$... play a D1AA, then the rest G5s, and even in a bowl a G5.
I'd like to see a G5 12-team playoff. The P5's happy because they are sectioned off for their own importance, cutting off D1AAs from their schedule, but having to play just 1 G5 -- and making some of their proceeds trickle down to us.
I guess the argument against that would be: People would follow the G5 teams less. My response? Not really, as long as it didn't affect television/ESPN-streaming situations. Most people see them as 'separate' in many ways anyway.