(04-22-2014 10:48 PM)JRsec Wrote:  With the new guidelines Slive has been speaking about if anyone drops out of the P5 because of the increased cost you have West Virginia, T.C.U., B.Y.U., Connecticut and Cincinnati to back fill with. If there are 8 eligible G5 schools and former P5 schools willing to go all in on the new measures then simply increase the existing conference by two each.

I doubt anyone drops out of the P5 unless the union issues get to the smaller private schools. I think quite a few G5 schools will spend the money necessary, probably BYU, most of the AAC, and some of the MWC, plus 1 or 2 others perhaps. My fear is the B12, since it has the fewest members, will be "encouraged" to add 4-6 of these types of schools (thus hamstringing it's future TV contracts and competitiveness with deadweight schools). Shoot me now if that happens. Hopefully there is just a sixth conference created from the best of the G5. Expand the playoffs to 8 and have 6 conference champs, plus 2 at large schools, battle for it all.

The most likely way to cut down on the number of schools playing at the highest level, besides the increased expenses required by paying stipends, etc., would be an attendance number of say 30K-40k. Right now there is an attendance requirement for FBS, but it is not enforced and is fairly low anyway.

I would hate for the scholarship limits to get raised. Sure it will take athletes from the G5 and lower, but the helmet schools will also take those extra scholarships and fill them with players that currently go to the Mississippi States, Utahs, Wake Forest, Iowa State, etc schools. There is more parity in CFB since the reductions went in. Talent is more evenly spread than it used to be which has helped make CFB better IMO. Going back up would not help the college game, unless you want Alabama, Ohio State, USC, Texas, etc. to be even more dominant than they are now.

I still hold out hope that the P5 make demands that the smaller schools refuse to accept and the P5, plus any friends, just breakaway. The NCAA is just such a farce at this point in time. However, the smaller schools will probably bow down because they want to keep suckling at the NCAA money teat.