(05-04-2017 10:44 PM)nzmorange Wrote:  And FWIW, "Power Conference" was a BCS-era term that applied to bowl contracts, but it died w/ the BCS. Instead, "Group" was briefly used to describe conferences w/ a huge media deal and "Gang" was used to describe those that didn't. But those terms were too similar, especially in football, so the "Power Conference" nomenclature was resurrected to replace the term "Group."

To further prove the distinction, the AAC was a Power Conference in the last year of the BCS, but it's never been referred to as a "Power Conference" under the current setup.

no matter what yo try and claim the bolded statement is 100% false

the term "power conference" did not die with the BCS it only became stronger and much more meaningful and much more used than in the past

the terms BCS and AQ died with the BCS

there is simply nothing for you to argue that will change this FACT

nobody discusses the "gang of five" Vs the "group of 5"

there is no other term for the power conferences in use now other than P5 with the P coming from the word POWER

the terms that dies with the BCS were BCS and AQ.....the terms that became the terms used by everyone post BCS were P5 and G5 for Power 5 and Group of 5 with the P coming from POWER and the G coming from Group

what terms are you trying to say that everyone uses for the P5 now?

do you have any term at all that ANYONE of relevance has used for the P5 other than power conference or P5 in the post BCS/AQ era

I suppose we could use the terms Former BCS/AQ Conferences With The Exception Of The Old Big East/AAC

but somehow at least to me FBCS/AQCWTEOTOBEAAC just does not rioll off the tongue

neither does The Conferences That Were Never BCS/AC With The Exception Of The AAC That Had One Year Of The Old BE AQ

again perhaps it is just me, but TCTWNBCS/AQWTEOTAACTHOYOTOBEAQ just doesn't seem to roll off the tongue either

I have never seen a discussion of the FBCS/AQCWTEOTOBEAAC Vs TCTWNBCS/AQWTEOTAACTHOYOTOBEAQ

but I have seen a million discussions on this forum and across the WWW discussing the P5 and the G5 with everyone (except apparently one) understanding that P is for "power 5" or "power conferences"

again what term are you claiming is in use now that pretty much no one else on earth uses since you claim the term "power conferences" died with the BCS/AQ era......never mind that the terms BCS/AQ that were used frequently during that era are the terms that are no longer relevant

also excluding the fact that in the BCS/AQ era the BCA/AQ conferences still had one vote per conference just like all the non-BCS/AQ and never mind that back then the financial differences coming from the BCS/AQ and the associated games were not nearly as substantial and the financial differences with the $50 million per year P% playoff payment and the NY6 payments

which goes to the irrefutable FACT that the P5 conferences "power conferences" have only become MORE POWERFUL post BCS/AQ and since they are also no longer BCS/AQ conferences because the BCS/AQ is gone......well they terms BCS/AQ died and the term POWER 5 or POWER CONFERENCE or P% have instead become the terms USED NOW