(02-15-2017 10:55 AM)ark30inf Wrote:  

(02-15-2017 10:40 AM)jacksfan29 Wrote:  

(02-14-2017 08:39 AM)ark30inf Wrote:  

(02-14-2017 08:24 AM)cleburneslim Wrote:  

(02-13-2017 05:10 PM)ark30inf Wrote:  No. We are FBS and that's the end of it.

I can take being unfairly excluded from our rightful place.....I cannot tolerate voluntarily accepting a 'separate but equal" system.

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While ark st. May be fbs there is an ocean of difference between ark st and p5.
It also appears most of the g5 has found their rightful place the G5.

If we all had the same playoff access...like you know...a sports league....then the gap would begin to narrow.

The P5/G5 gap is partially caused by post-season bias...so it can't be used as an excuse to maintain the bias.

Dozens of sports leagues manage to have post-season play without polls, beauty contests, or checking bank accounts. CFB can too.

Arkansas State are going to close the money gap with the University of Arkansas? How? Post season bias has nothing to do with it. The money gap does.

Sorry, you can't compete and you will never compete with the P5 or even the AAC and top of the MWC. The SBC, CUSA and majority of the MAC are not going to thrive in FBS going forward. The money is going to continue to dry up. Your choice down the road will be to find new revenue sources, drop FB or drop down to FCS. In 5 - 10 years the G5 as we know it today will not exist.

Equal access to playoffs for conference champions...like real sports...will ease the recruiting differential, which increases competitiveness, which increases interest in G5 schools, and thus increases overall parity.

Arkansas State will never be the University of Arkansas. Yet that is not a valid excuse to not seek increased parity in a sports league.

Why would you give equal access to the playoffs for the Sun Belt champ when they would finish at the bottom of almost all, if not all P5 conferences?

Moot point because it will never happen. But for the sake of argument, lets say the NCAA, or a G5 lawsuit forced the P5 conferences hand. I can tell you with 100% certainty that the P5 will immediately begin the process of leaving the NCAA, starting their own organizing body leaving the G5 behind and taking all the TV money with them. The G5 have ZERO power.