(03-11-2013 05:09 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  

(03-11-2013 05:01 PM)Afflicted Wrote:  

(03-11-2013 04:36 PM)stever20 Wrote:  

(03-11-2013 04:32 PM)Afflicted Wrote:  

(03-10-2013 11:26 AM)mikeinsec127 Wrote:  I'd love to know what your definition of broke is. Tulsa has the option of these two.
1. The new whatever conference is a shadow of what it once was, consisting of those who couldn't get out and a bunch of CUSA move ups. The TV deal is worth like one-tenth what it would have been and all of the ESPN broadcasts will be weeknights. Oh, and it will loose all its better bowl tie-ins.
2. The reconfigured CUSA which is a shadow of itself and consists of those who couldn't get out and a bunch of WAC/SBC & 1aa move ups. Its tv deal is worth less than C-TBA and it will loose its better bowl tie-ins.

Why would CUSA lose any bowl tie-ins to the America 12, or anyone else, for that matter?

to get more in line with what the SBC has. Because that's what the conference peer is now.

I disagree. The schools added to CUSA were asked to join based on merit. They are schools that have outgrown the Sun Belt and who are ready to take their athletic programs to another level. They've proven this based on the successes they've had and on investments they've made in facilities. The same can be said for the schools that left CUSA to join the America 12. Those schools were ready to move up to play tougher competition and to gain more exposure, but now those schools that made the BE/America 12 more attractive are gone. The TV contract reflects that. CUSA and America 12 are more equal than most of us care to admit. The two conferences will probably be playing one another in bowl games.

Maybe a few lower level bowl games. Those games are crap made-for-tv-fodder. The key is how many bowls do you need and how many bowls do you lose. CUSA has 14 teams now, which means they need at LEAST one additional bowl--but they are likley losing at least one bowl, maybe more. Ditto Big East, they are now 10 teams rather than 8--so they need at LEAST one additonal bowl--and they are likely to lose 3, and pick up one.

Its going to be ugly. The good news is that the Big 12, SEC, and ACC are still the same size as they were in 2012, so any bowl slots they pick up means they are dumping a bowl slot elsewhere. The Big10 will pick up at least one slot as they got bigger. Hard to see how the Sunbelt doesnt get hurt here.

FWIW--I beleve that ESPN will likely add a couple of bowls due to the increase in the total number of FBS teams.

My feeling is that there will always be enough bowls around, but my fear is that the P5 conferences are going to slowly make sure that they are only playing one another in their bowl games. The divide will get wider between the P5 and Gof5. What's going on should be against the law. The Gof5 conferences should think about staging a playoff if all we're going to get are all the low-tier bowls. I don't know what the answer is, but the Gof5 should be working together to come up with something.

(03-12-2013 08:02 PM)Afflicted Wrote:  

(03-11-2013 05:09 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  

(03-11-2013 05:01 PM)Afflicted Wrote:  

(03-11-2013 04:36 PM)stever20 Wrote:  

(03-11-2013 04:32 PM)Afflicted Wrote:  Why would CUSA lose any bowl tie-ins to the America 12, or anyone else, for that matter?

to get more in line with what the SBC has. Because that's what the conference peer is now.

I disagree. The schools added to CUSA were asked to join based on merit. They are schools that have outgrown the Sun Belt and who are ready to take their athletic programs to another level. They've proven this based on the successes they've had and on investments they've made in facilities. The same can be said for the schools that left CUSA to join the America 12. Those schools were ready to move up to play tougher competition and to gain more exposure, but now those schools that made the BE/America 12 more attractive are gone. The TV contract reflects that. CUSA and America 12 are more equal than most of us care to admit. The two conferences will probably be playing one another in bowl games.

Maybe a few lower level bowl games. Those games are crap made-for-tv-fodder. The key is how many bowls do you need and how many bowls do you lose. CUSA has 14 teams now, which means they need at LEAST one additional bowl--but they are likley losing at least one bowl, maybe more. Ditto Big East, they are now 10 teams rather than 8--so they need at LEAST one additonal bowl--and they are likely to lose 3, and pick up one.

Its going to be ugly. The good news is that the Big 12, SEC, and ACC are still the same size as they were in 2012, so any bowl slots they pick up means they are dumping a bowl slot elsewhere. The Big10 will pick up at least one slot as they got bigger. Hard to see how the Sunbelt doesnt get hurt here.

FWIW--I beleve that ESPN will likely add a couple of bowls due to the increase in the total number of FBS teams.

My feeling is that there will always be enough bowls around, but my fear is that the P5 conferences are going to slowly make sure that they are only playing one another in their bowl games. The divide will get wider between the P5 and Gof5. What's going on should be against the law. The Gof5 conferences should think about staging a playoff if all we're going to get are all the low-tier bowls. I don't know what the answer is, but the Gof5 should be working together to come up with something.

Sadly the opposite is true. It would be against the law to force the bigger schools to play the smaller schools just like it is illegal to force them to take the same money.