(07-07-2011 11:33 AM)whitey Wrote:  

(07-06-2011 11:00 PM)jml2010 Wrote:  

(07-06-2011 08:46 PM)whitey Wrote:  If you can't put 25,000 in the stands, you shouldn't sniff Div 1A

Amen but I would go a step further and make it 40k. I love college football but who really wants to watch Podunk U vs Podunk St U play in front of 30K fans. Not many, I would guess.

I agree but D1A would be half the size it is now.

Then FBS would be reduced to those who deserve admission, and not undeserving schools like Duke, Temple, and quite a few others I can think of...

Here's how I would fix college football.

I'd remove the AQs and the caps, put the top 10 teams regardless of conference affiliation in to the traditional BCS bowls + the Cotton bowl, making sure one bowl has 1 v 4 and one bowl has 2 v 3. The other three can have somewhat regional matchups. Then, I'd let the winner of the top two bowls play for the title at the same site as the 1 v 4 game. The locations would rotate like they do now.

It would still be controversial, but it would give you a more proven champion while keeping things mostly as they are now.

(07-07-2011 03:06 PM)bitcruncher Wrote:  Then FBS would be reduced to those who deserve admission, and not undeserving schools like Duke, Temple, and quite a few others I can think of...

Why is Duke "undeserving"?

If so, TCU, Kansas State, or even Cincinnati would have never been "deserving" to turn things around.

Duke's football team is undeserving. It always has been, dude...

(07-06-2011 11:22 AM)10thMountain Wrote:  It seems like you created your own dream league for Memphis that would benefit it the most and then just rearranged everyone else to fit around it.

And while its a great league for Memphis, the "Lone Star" conference is full of fail as the SWC showed. Too many Texas schools, too many small time programs. It has maybe two games there (UT/OU and A&M/UT) that would get national attention. OU/UT/A&M would never agree to be in such a small time league because they've been there, done that and seen how it doesn't work.

I second that. Considering that Memphis is sub 0.500 in W/L for football, why would anyone want them in their BCS conference? Good BB, but that in and of itself does not make it work. Memphis has no history of good CFB to even fall back on. If I was Alabama, LSU, etc, I'd over that conference...

This thread reminds me of this:

How I would fix it:

#1 Attendance requirement

If you can't average 20K a year (which I believe is too low but know too many will cry about how its not fair because they only play other schools like them with apathetic fans and not the big boys), then you do NOT belong in a FBS conference so you are going back to FCS. The following are packing their bags and saying good bye:

-Akron
-Arkansas State
-Ball State
-Bowling Green
-Buffalo
-Eastern Michigan
-Florida International
-Florida Atlantic
-Idaho
-Kent State
-Louisiana-Lafayette
-Louisiana Tech
-Miami (OH)
-Middle Tennessee
-New Mexico State
-North Texas
-Northern Illinois
-Ohio
-San Jose State
-Toledo
-Troy
-UAB
-Utah State
-Western Kentucky
-Western Michigan

so, that leaves us with 95 teams from 120 (soon to be 124)

Obviously most of the WAC/MAC and SBC are now gone. The leftovers can either find a spot in a remaining conference, go indy or go back to FCS.

#2 Everybody left is AQ

That's right, no more preferential , some are, some aren't treatment for conferences. The post season is really easy: 16 team tournament to crown a champ. winner of each conference gets an auto bid. The next best 8 teams as decided by the final BCS poll get the wild cards. Teams are seeded by their final ranking 1-16 and then we get it on.

(07-07-2011 03:06 PM)bitcruncher Wrote:  Then FBS would be reduced to those who deserve admission, and not undeserving schools like Duke, Temple, and quite a few others I can think of...

I would take the Top 64 in attendance and the 56 soon to be 60 form a 2nd division.

Air Force is in the Top 64 but I excluded them because I don't think they would make the jump and I would force ND to join the Big 16.

Here is my dream 4 (16) superconferences. Washington St, Vanderbilt, Northwestern, Duke, UConn, Cincy and Wake have been left out. No offense to those schools but this is based on being in the Top 64.

PAC 16
UT 100K, OU 84K, USC 79K, Wash 66K, BYU 61K, UCLA 60K, Oregon 59K, Cal 57K, TX Tech 57K, Arizona 55K, Okla St 50K, Az St 47K, Colorado 46K, Oregon St 45K, Utah 45K, Stanford 40K.

SEC 16
Bama 101K, Tenn 99K, Georgia 92K, LSU 92K, Florida 90K, Auburn 86K, TX A&M 82K, South Carolina 76K, Ark 67K, Kentucky 66K, Missouri 61K, West Virginia 56K, Ole Miss 55K, Miss St 54K, TCU 42K, Baylor 40K.

Big 16
Mich 111K, Ohio St 105K, Penn St 104K, Nebraska 85K, Notre Dame 80K, Wisconsin 79K, Mich St 73K, Iowa 70K, Illinois 54K, K-State 49K, Minn 49K, Purdue 48K, Rutgers 47K, Iowa St 45K, Kansas 44K, Indiana 41K.

ACC/BE 16
Clemson 75K, Florida St 71K, Va. Tech 66K, North Carlina 58K, NC State 56K, Pitt 52K, Miami 51K, Louisville 50K, ECU 49K Ga. Tech 46K, Virginia 45K, South Florida 40K, Syracuse 40K, Central Florida 39K Maryland 39K, Boston College 38K.

I know it's a pipe dream but it's the off season and there isn't anything else to talk about.