(11-18-2011 08:17 AM)Jugnaut Wrote:  

(11-18-2011 07:48 AM)TampaKnight Wrote:  This is a wild fantasy, I know.

But anyone who is currently either:

A. in a non-AQ conference,
B. in the Big East, or
C. in an AQ conference, but never wins the conference championships

They need to defect and create a playoff system under the NCAA. There are a couple things people will gripe about on the surface of this...

- It would essentially create three divisions in D-I: FCS-B, FCS-A, and FBS
- No affiliation with the 'big-time' schools
- Risking revenue for fairness

But this would also require that these schools REFUSE, all of them, to schedule these clowns in games. All of those teams would essentially beat up on each other for a bowl game.

I'm REALLY not sure how popular college football truly will be under a defected division. Probably wouldn't change much, maybe it would. Thoughts?

In reality, it would be awful. All non-aq teams would instantly become I-AA and be largely forgotten about. =(

what you said

any non-AQ teams might as well drop down to FCS status because they won't matter in the grand scheme of things

I totally hear what you are saying and I feel you. The problem is that too many of those nonAQ school need the pay to play games to keep going. Probably a dozen schools would end up disbanding football if they didn't have those one and dones.

(11-18-2011 06:28 PM)mikeinsec127 Wrote:  I totally hear what you are saying and I feel you. The problem is that too many of those nonAQ school need the pay to play games to keep going. Probably a dozen schools would end up disbanding football if they didn't have those one and dones.

The only way to fight against the Big conferences is via the television sponsors. A large campaign, by which small school fans refuse to buy products advertised on power confernence telecasts would threaten the bussiness model the entire cartel is based upon. It would eventually force TV to demand reforms to college football. That is really the only leverage small team fans have. The boycott doesnt even have to be all that effective. Sponsors advertise to increase sale, not to decrease sales. Sponsors would leave at the wiff of a possible boycott. The networks would immediately panic if one of thier most proitable jewels lost it's luster to sponsors. The small school fans have no real leverage, all they have is numbers.