(04-17-2014 10:29 AM)FIUFan Wrote:  

(04-17-2014 09:42 AM)MWC Tex Wrote:  The theory may work if you are looking a years down the road. However, the evidence (the noise you referenced) is now coming out and it will be in a few months of the changes to FBS and it will cause the schools to re-think their place.

The undertone of your comment seems to be suggesting some type of seismic shift in the landscape of FBS football.

Issues you may be referring to:

1.) stipends for college athletes above cost of scholarship
2.) greater health and safety concern for all student athletes
3.) unionizing of student athletes (Northwestern s/a's scheduled to vote Apr. 25th)

What am I missing here? T.V. contracts for the P5 are done for the most part. Realignment noise has pretty much ceased (other than the SBC issue). I don't see any great issues out there that are going to rattle FBS to its foundation. Sure the P5 wants an ever greater share of the pie but their not going to kill the golden goose to get it.

Yes, Those 3 are basically what is being refferred to.
Were those topics address in the FBS report? I don't think so.
If the NLRB overturn the employee status, then the full cost of attendance plus a stipend changes the game for quite a few G5 schools. Do think ULM's of the G5 can stay FBS with their $10 million budget? There are new stipulations coming for FBS if you want to play and be competitve, otherwise if your in FBS just to say your FBS doesn't make the school any better than a top FCS program....it becomes a mockery of why are you in the division at all.