(01-02-2017 09:33 PM)Fitbud Wrote: (01-02-2017 09:28 PM)HogDawg Wrote: (01-02-2017 09:25 PM)Fitbud Wrote: (01-02-2017 08:49 PM)HogDawg Wrote: (01-02-2017 08:18 PM)Fitbud Wrote: Did you even watch the game? Washington was in that game for three quarters. They did a hell of a lot better against Alabama than Ohio St. did against Clemson.
I'm sorry brother but you are never going to convince anyone that G5 vs. P5 schools are in any way comparable. It's not just football, it's facilities basketball etc. etc.
Why on earth would a P5 school want to play a G5 school in their house? It usually makes no financial sense. No offense dude but there are high school stadiums in Texas that are nicer than some G5 stadiums.
It just isn't going to happen.
Dude....I watched that Alabama vs Washington game, and that game WAS NEVER IN DOUBT!. Furthermore, I'm watching USC in the Rose Bowl RIGHT NOW, and I suddenly remembered that USC lost to Alabama 52-6 earlier THIS SEASON. For the record, LA Tech beat Alabama the last two times we played 'em including a year they WON the SEC title and were ranked in the Top 5. And we beat them IN THEIR HOUSE! So don't tell me G5's can't compete. LOL!!!
Again you are talking about a hand full of games here and there.
G5 schools would never compete in a conference like the SEC on a week by week basis. They don't have the depth, or the athletes to do it. By the end of the season, they would have to forfeit.
Classic, unwarranted, unjustified P5 arrogance.
It's a fact. P5 schools have more blue chip players than G5 schools. The G5 school might field a good starting team but over several weeks of playing better athletes , they wouldn't be able to field those players for an entire season.
I've watched a lot of football and if it is one thing that is apparent when a P5 school plays a G5 school, it's that the P5 school has better and stronger athletes and they eventually just wear down the lesser school.
If that played out throughout an entire season, it would be absolutely devastating.
So explain Utah, who was a G5 school. They got the chance to join the Pac-12 and a few years in they are now ranked fairly regularly. Or TCU, who was a G5, joined the Big XII, and in year 3 won a share of the conference title. Or Louisville, who... you get the point.
The G5 don't have the good players because they get almost ZERO media coverage. Good players want to play on national TV. Give the good G5 matchups national exposure, and you'll eventually see, over time, the recruiting and fan bases improve. Look at Houston, who has started getting a lot more coverage and became the first G5 school to get a 5* recruit.
La Tech lost to Arkansas, at Arky, by 1 point, with a backup QB who was a RS Freshman THAT HAD NEVER PLAYED A DOWN OF COLLEGE FOOTBALL. Imagine if we had had our starting QB for that game?
Boise State is 3-0 in the Fiesta Bowl, including wins over the Big XII champ and a Pac-12 team. This year? 2-0 against Pac-12 teams, and they weren't even the best team in the Mountain West. Put them in the Pac-12 and you'd see them competing at the top within a few years.
Houston beat the eventual Big XII champs and one of the better ACC teams, but lost to 4 G5 teams.
Is the average P5 team better than the average G5 team? Sure. But are there plenty of G5 teams that could compete with the P5? Definitely. In the 3 years of the NY6, the G5 team is 2-1, with the only loss coming this year, and WMU only lost by 1 score. In the BCS era, "BCS Busters" went 4-2 against AQ teams.
Here's the bottom line. P5 fans and the media push the idea that the G5 are "cupcakes" and usually just ignore them. We get NO COVERAGE by the media. Give us the same exposure you get (or even a chunk) and you'd see a change over a few years.
Oh and one more thing. Hard to have sustained success when you guys steal our best coaches after just a couple of seasons.
The system currently sets up the G5 to fail. Kudos to those that can have success despite it.