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I still believe the "Power 5" are aiming at a 13 or 14 game regular season so they can play the 9 games conference schedule and keep their big money-maker (huge profit margin) always at home games with the peasant teams. Currently, if they play a 9 games conference schedule, it provides only alternating 4 or 5 home games with one more every other year with an OOC game with another P-5 team. That's 10 out of the present 12 games.

Peasant teams always played at home provide far greater income per game when included in annual season ticket packages. If the P-5 go to 9 game conference schedules, look for the "other shoe to fall" shortly after since they may lose millions unless the season is extended.

Can't have your cake & eat it too.

If they want to be the big boys, then you can't go back to playing little boy teams.

(05-05-2014 05:56 PM)the_blazerman Wrote:  Can't have your cake & eat it too.

If they want to be the big boys, then you can't go back to playing little boy teams.

The root of the problem is that the peasant schools NEED to procure those "money games" to make their annual budgets. For the benefit of all collegiate football, the NCAA needs to set minimum limits on what the P-5 teams pay out to the lower ranked conference teams. By being able to pit the various programs vs each other, they become like an industry using that tactic to play states against each other for a new plant location.

We need the money and they need to fill out their schedules.

There are more of us than there are of them.

Homecoming? Sure! That'll be $2 million.

(05-07-2014 02:46 PM)Smaug Wrote:  We need the money and they need to fill out their schedules.

There are more of us than there are of them.

Homecoming? Sure! That'll be $2 million.

They need to fill out their schedules, but there are more than a few schools bidding to help them out so they can usually get a team for what they want to pay. We may demand $2 million, but we would probably get underbid by several schools who are willing to play for less. They sign a Western Carolina type school for a few hundred thousands and we wind up with an open date.