(05-31-2014 10:30 AM)Frog in the Kitchen Sink Wrote: I'm not sure the P5 and G5 will catch on outside of boards like this. I've heard ADs use "contract" conferences (i.e. contracts with the bowls in the playoff). Now with the NCAA reorganization stuff, I wonder if it won't be something else that relates to the specifics of however that codification is worded.
I don't know how the "big five" / "power five" will end up being called.
Its the fact that it was the "Group of Five" in CFP negotiations that is getting a pile of money from the big boys to split up among themselves and one of the twelve spots in the six big bowls for the best of their five champions puts Group of Five among the terms on the inside track. Nothing similar came out of the CFP negotiations for the other five FBS conferences, since they were not negotiating as a Group, they were each negotiating on their own behalf. Each have a big enough audience that a lot of individualized reporting was done aimed at the supporters of each of those conference.
But "Contract" and "Access" conferences is certainly another possibility.
g5/G5 is too fine a distinction to have much of a shot.
Sometime in November we'll learn what the big sports infotainment providers settle on, as they start talking about who will get the Access Bowl slot, and likely by the same time a year later the terminology will be entrenched.
(05-30-2014 11:39 PM)CliftonAve Wrote: Not sure what part of the Midwest you were from Bruce (I assume Ohio) but there are still quite a few like that-- particularly in Central and Northern Ohio. As someone else alluded to most people are very casual college sports fans and Buckeye fans are as guilty as anyone in the country in regards to having blinders on.
Central Ohio ~ outside of Columbus at the time (though now outer suburban Columbus has spilled out over it, like a batch of untended sour dough overflowing the bowl it is in) ... in our country football conference, nine of ten schools had the OSU fight song as their fight song ~ I think the other one had Notre Dame's.
Quote: About 10 years or so ago a colleague of mine and I attended a seminar out in California that happened to take place around the start of the NCAA basketball tournament. We met some business associates out there from Lexington, KY who were talking about how disappointed they were in UK that year. My colleague (an OSU alum and huge fan) commented that they should be happy a school like theirs made the tournament. However, he made the point it was ok for him to be upset that OSU barely made the tournament given that they had such great tradition.
The scary part is he was freaking serious.
Well, I went to college in SW Ohio, and there was a guy from Louisville in my same program, so by college at least I was a little less oblivious to basketball in the southern parts of the Ohio River Valley. But in college I was more into my original pro sports teams from growing up in the countryside of Central Ohio, the Reds and the Bengals. From the time I saw the Buckeyes in the Horseshoe in the 70's, the year my mom got Buckeyes tickets as an OSU senior, the next college game I saw was in the 90's as a grad student at UT, watching the Vols beat up on cupcakes.
But growing up, honest to god, if you had given me a hint and told me one is in South Carolina and one in Alabama, I'd still only have a 50/50 shot telling you were Auburn and Clemson were located. As far as I knew, the Iron Bowl would have been a bowl ... that happened to be made out of iron. It just wasn't something that came up very much on the local TV news or on radio on the Big 700, Voice of the Reds, Bengals, and somebodies-I-forget.