(12-12-2017 09:37 PM)Bronco XXVIII Wrote: ^^
1.) I don't think you should judge my heart, or my commitment to WMU, when you don't know a thing about me.
2.) Have you paid attention to the college football land$cape the pa$t 20 year$? The P5 is not losing any ground. See toddjnsn's post above.
3.) My post was more a spontaneous, gut-check reaction (what I would like to see) scenario, more than reality.
4.) It would actually be a huge coup to get a seat at a 8-man table. The alternative is the (inevitable?) four P5 superconferences, with 16 teams each, that send their champs to the CFP.
5.) I am not happy about the two class system either. But when the 2017 MACC draws only 16k people...
I did not judge your heart or your commitment to WMU; I asked a question.
The P5 schools/conferences have, over the course of many years, cornered the media market and politics of college football. I get that they have more appeal and are a bigger attraction, as that developed over the course of decades, many of which were in an era where media exposure was limited to radio and major network occasional TV coverage, and only the biggest schools got any attention at all. But regardless of the circumstances, those big traditional football schools, and their coat-tailing conference brethren have every right to take advantage of the larger "draw" they still have on a national scale, and I dont disparage them for that at all.
My problem is that the NCAA is a large governing body for college sports, and within college football it has ten Division 1 conferences. Just as the NCAA sets the rules of the game, establishing penalties, scoring system, how overtime will be played, etc., with the concept of fairness to each team on the field, the same principles of fairness and equity should be applied with respect to rules and everything else off the field. The old BCS and the current "Playoff" (what a joke) systems are specifically engineered, from the beginning, and applied throughout the entire process, to expressly and unambiguously provide an enormous advantage and windfall, financial and otherwise, to the P5 schools, with the conspicuous understanding that the G5 schools will not ever be given anything close to a fair opportunity to equally share in either the financial proceeds, the positive exposure or prestige that the football "playoff", and New Years bowls provide.
Understand this; there is a clear distinction between having a system which happens to be beneficial to certain leagues and schools, because those schools have more name recognition, a better football history, or just better teams, and a system which literally establishes clear rules expressly favoring the P5's over the G5's; which is exactly what the NCAA has done. They have every intangible advantage as it is; they dont need to spot themselves a 28 point lead to start the game too by fixing the system.
There is a reason why the P5's and the NCAA (which is run by the P5's) get away with this. Because everyone allows them to. The P5 schools fan bases (both legitimate graduates of the schools who convince themselves they are somehow entitled to special treatment, and the Walmart fans who cant read so they dont even know the rules, and would be too dumb to understand anyway) make up the largest portion of football fans, and they certainly are not going to protest about the G5's being left out of the mix. But the G5 people have acquiesced as well, and that bothers me. Many just accept their insignificant and powerless place at the little kids table. How can we all be D1 schools, and yet play under different rules? Why even distinguish P5 and G5?
This stuff has an effect on everything. Recruiting kids at a G5 would be easier if a kid knew he had a chance to play in the NCAA playoff. Just like when the NCAA Hoops tournament expanded, it would go along way to establishing parity between the P5s and the G5s. And then the financial benefits would allow G5s to increase their budget a bit, which would likewise help with equaling the playing fields. But that's just the point, the NCAA and the P5s dont want to equal the playing field. they want the huge advantage, and everything that goes with it.
EVERY D1 conference champion should get to play in the NCAA D1 football playoff. Figure everything else out after that.
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