Beyond Conference games and rivalry games? I just find it incredible that certain teams sabotage themselves or puff themselves up through a schedule that not only is in their best interest but also could hurt the conference. Should the Conference have a say in the schedule a member school has?

Shrug.

There are certain things about college sports that will never be like pro sports, for better and for worse.

College teams, in all sports, have been arranging their own schedules for more than 100 years.

easy answer: NO

Take a look at Navy's OOC...they've got no wiggle room to let their schedule be dictated by another body

I think as far as what we're going to see is like what the Big Ten did saying no FCS games and 1 P5 (or derivative thereof) .

What entity would dictate the schedules of BYU, Army and Notre Dame football, for instance??

I'd love to see a rule requiring 6 home and 6 away OR 5 away + 1 neutral... to do away with these ridiculous schedules just to get 7 home games.

Having said that...

(12-22-2015 03:26 PM)stever20 Wrote:  I think as far as what we're going to see is like what the Big Ten did saying no FCS games and 1 P5 (or derivative thereof) .

^^^THIS^^^ is most likely the truth.

(12-22-2015 03:35 PM)TerryD Wrote:  What entity would dictate the schedules of BYU, Army and Notre Dame football, for instance??

I'm sure we could set up a non-profit organization composed of CSNBBS users for the purpose of scheduling these teams. I'll volunteer right now.

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Would 8 ACC teams be on it?

No.

Baylor scheduling SMU and Rice is more of a long time rivalry games when they were all in the SWC together.

Long said that a win over an FCS team like a strong North Dakota State team is better than a win over a Kansas team.

Some P5 and G5 conferences have 2 or more teams that could lose to FCS and G5 teams. Kansas and Iowa State, Indiana, Illinois, Minnesota and Purdue could lose to them. Wake Forest, Duke, Virginia, Syracuse, Louisville, Boston College, Miami and some others could also lose as well.

That would be cool. The Wizard of Oz forcing Michigan to play at WKU!

(12-22-2015 03:50 PM)Hokie Mark Wrote:  I'd love to see a rule requiring 6 home and 6 away OR 5 away + 1 neutral... to do away with these ridiculous schedules just to get 7 home games.

You would basically be asking the "college football industry" as a whole to forgo tens of millions of dollars in revenue. The 7th home for popular P5 schools can generate as much as $5 million+ in revenue, and the G5 school getting that home game under a "maximum 6 home games" rule isn't going to come close to that.

Sure, the P5 schools will lose a lot of the money but the reduced $$ for bought games would hurt the G5 schools worse.

I'm sure we could set up a non-profit organization composed of CSNBBS users for the purpose of scheduling these teams. I'll volunteer right now.

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No. There would be 9

Mandating a certain number of games vs P5/special G5 teams vs FBS is as close as you'll ever get.

This isn't the pros. There are 128 seperate and competing agendas in FBS

Not practical and not desired.

(12-22-2015 07:06 PM)10thMountain Wrote:  Mandating a certain number of games vs P5/special G5 teams vs FBS is as close as you'll ever get.

This isn't the pros. There are 128 seperate and competing agendas in FBS

That's not exactly true. Sure TECHNICALLY the "student athletes" are amateurs... but only in the loosest sense of the word. College BB is a whole lot worse considering scum like Calipari intentionally scouts for 1 year wonders to come to school to do nothing but play BB and then move on before the kids putrid grades become a factor.

The facade of collegiality is still there, and ESPN sure tries to drive that narrative. But let's get real, these kids are semi-pro athletes, or perhaps it would be more accurate to call them pros playing in a minor league system.

If CFB would move towards somethign like this - http://csnbbs.com/thread-762236.html - at least the hypocrisy can be removed from the sport. And ultimately people would get what they really want, which is the best FB you can get that is not NFL football.

(12-22-2015 02:47 PM)Dasville Wrote:  Beyond Conference games and rivalry games? I just find it incredible that certain teams sabotage themselves or puff themselves up through a schedule that not only is in their best interest but also could hurt the conference. Should the Conference have a say in the schedule a member school has?

Basically I would say no. If a University wants to sabotage their own schedule by adding cupcakes and they don't get the bowl they wanted that's their problem. It should be left up to the schools and to the Athletic directors to do their scheduling. If they want to embarrass themselves, fine!

(12-22-2015 02:47 PM)Dasville Wrote:  Beyond Conference games and rivalry games? I just find it incredible that certain teams sabotage themselves or puff themselves up through a schedule that not only is in their best interest but also could hurt the conference. Should the Conference have a say in the schedule a member school has?

The last thing I want to see is the football ignorant ACC administration dictating who and where we play.

I demand an SEC schedule for Houston. We don't even need to join the conference, just make a Notre Dame type pact for 8 games a year.

(12-22-2015 09:40 PM)_C2_ Wrote:  I demand an SEC schedule for Houston. We don't even need to join the conference, just make a Notre Dame type pact for 8 games a year.

I wouldn't mind Houston being in the SEC.

(12-22-2015 03:50 PM)Hokie Mark Wrote:  

(12-22-2015 03:35 PM)TerryD Wrote:  What entity would dictate the schedules of BYU, Army and Notre Dame football, for instance??

I'm sure we could set up a non-profit organization composed of CSNBBS users for the purpose of scheduling these teams. I'll volunteer right now.

I'm there with you. My first decree is that OSU must play at SE Missouri State, followed by Alabama going to Prairie View A&M.

Commissioners, working with the TV partners, could determine which games should be played.