(01-05-2018 12:02 PM)Zombiewoof Wrote:  

(01-05-2018 11:35 AM)ark30inf Wrote:  And they maintain those advantages by having a cartel that freezes those advantages in place and limits others from following and acheving the same level of success.

This is patently untrue. I don't know how old you are, but in my lifetime, the ACC was not considered on the same level as the Big 10 or SEC, but it certainly is now. Penn State and Florida State had to win their way to respectability, but they weren't given "top program" status because someone gave it to them to achieve "fairness."

The advantages aren't "frozen in place" if there is upward mobility. The schools that have been added to the P5 conferences over the years proves that nothing has been static and that programs that commit to their athletics programs have eventually been rewarded with membership to the big boy club. Certainly you can see that nothing is frozen in place if schools like Louisville and Utah get invitations to P5 conferences, as well as returners like TCU. The only thing holding Houston back is demographics or they would already have returned to the club. There is upward mobility, so all of the chest beating about the lack of fairness is just untrue.

Promoting a new member to a cartel does not make it...not a cartel. Those who remain in G5 still have no access to a NC and are still competitively stunted by that fact. They have no control over any upward movement, it is rare, and entirely at the whim of the cartel. Your idea that nobody can claim its not a fair system...is absurd.



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