(05-20-2017 08:55 AM)JHS55 Wrote:  Why would having our own 5 conference playoff drop us to d-ll or FCS or from what y'all are saying we might as well drop off the face of the earth, so explain to me why we drop down
I only want our own playoff if we don't drop down ,also p5ers want to get a higher classification for them selves what do we do then

Because nobody cares about the FCS playoff. A G5 playoff would become the new FCS. The American public cares a great deal about the top level of college football. They barely know the other levels exist. The ratings for virtually any bowl game including teams from the top FBS division will blow away the average ratings for an FCS playoff game. The FCS playoff simply doesnt register with the public.

So, doing anything that might be construed as codifying a new lower FBS subdivision in D1 is a bad idea for the G5. If the G5 want to improve thier post season, they must do so with the current bowl system frame work. My personal opinion is the G5 should use a slice of the 85-90 million dollars they get from the College Football Playoff to create 3 high payout games like I suggested above. The payouts would need to be highn enough to attract a high selection from a P5 conference to two of the new games. As a G5 champ vs G5 champ game, the third new bowl wouldn't need P5 help.

A last resort would be to pit the 4 G5 champs not playing in the access bowl against one another in high payout seeded games. That could theoretically happen today if the G5 really wanted to do it. That said, frankly, I don't think the AAC would go for that.(as the AAC stated goal has been to play as many P5's as possible in the post season).