(01-05-2018 09:46 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(01-05-2018 07:16 PM)ark30inf Wrote:  

(01-05-2018 06:25 PM)YNot Wrote:  

(01-05-2018 03:15 PM)bullet Wrote:  Also in most other sports you don't have 27 of the 130 members that have been added in the last 25 years (and 14 in the last dozen) when most of those are lower level programs that just happen to have a new label and scholarship limit.

I wonder how many FBS members would still qualify if they enforced the 15K minimum attendance rule. I haven't seen 2017 numbers yet, but last year there were at least 10 FBS programs under the minimum and another half dozen or so barely over.

If they increased the attendance minimum to 20K, you're looking at like 27 schools that wouldn't meet the cutoff. It's hard to argue that you should be part of the top level of college football if you can't average 20K home game attendance...let alone 15K.

When our own alumni adopt a P5 team they did not even attend because they are "relevant"...then that also is skewed due to the cartel's stranglehold.

Troy won the SBC 5 times in a row. Can you imagine the impact on their attendance and "relevancy" if those had also included 5 playoff appearances in a row? And if they had won a game or two there?

Don't give me the 15K dodge when G5 attendance and support has been corroded by imposed irrelevancy by the P5 over decades.


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There was a big difference back when the NCAA had a TV cartel. Of course, half the G5 were I-AA or didn't even have football.

IMO, this is what many of the G5 really want. Because access alone simply is not going to be enough. It might not be the NCAA that runs it, but some super-national like organization that pools the CFB money together and distributes it in a similar fashion to March Madness is the endgoal.

This conversation isn't really about football, its about survival.