(05-25-2014 08:19 PM)MJG Wrote: Why would the conference not count as G5 or G6 rules can be changed.
I don't know what this sentence is attempting to ask.
Quote: A conference could be allowed to be just football or Olympic sports or both.
It could be, if the current rules were changed.
There is, obviously, a general interest among all P5 conference to avoid wide open access to the FBS. A new FBS conference is either a potential pathway into the FBS by new schools, or else if built by raiding the existing Go5 conferences, taking away a large number of their highest value schools, which is essentially the proposal for this football only conference, it turns the raided existing Go5 conferences into potential pathways into the FBS.
There has to be a quite strong push to overcome that P5 reluctance, so the question is, who would perceive a benefit from the current rules being changed in order to allow an FBS FB-only conference
other than schools who believe that they could be a member of that conference
and also perceive such a conference to be a dramatic improvement to where they are now.
Those schools on board the rule change because they expect to be in the new conference plus expect that to be a substantial benefit are not likely to be enough clout on their own to push the rule change through, so
who else has reason to be enthusiastic?