The so called power 5 must have had a secret meeting about 6 years ago and said the following:

We don't like how close Butler came in Basketball and Boise State in football. What can we do
to effectively minimize all other conferences without leaving the ncaa .

FOOTBALL
4 Team Playoff. THE SPIN , Now all FBS teams have a shot. We will tell everyone that it is set in stone for a dozen years so when the push comes to expand to 8 teams we can say we have a 12 year contract. Even though we know we could go back in and re-do the contract anytime.

THE REALITY Our hand selected committee will never rank a non-power high enough to eve qualify for the playoff (see UCF)

What can we do to hurt the other conferences even more. We as P-5 confrences play more conference games and schedule more non conference games with other
P- 5 conferences.
NET EFFECT It raises our strength of schedule and decreases revenue games for G-5 teams We retain our recruiting advantage so we can tell recruits no G5 team
will ever play in the 4 Team playoff

Let's see if we can actually get all members that play NCAA Football to
let the P-5 Conferences have their own rules committee that does not include all FBS members just P-5 schools.

Change as much of the bowl schedule as we can to limit a P-5 Team from Playing a G-5 Team.
Also whenever a G-5 team beats a P-5 Team in a bowl game make sure all media state the reason was the P-5 Team was not motivated because they missed playing in the 4 team playoff.


BASKETBALL Increase your conference games and schedule more power 5 teams non conference Cherry pick good teams from other conferences to add to your conference this will add P-5 strength of schedule and add television money

So if we as P-5 conferences all get from 5 to 8 teams in the dance and limit at large selections from other conferences we have many more chances to earn ncaa credits and win the championship.

Let's get the NCAA to take over the NIT so we can also get more of our teams in and with a higher seed.

PLAYER MONEY Let;s give the student athletes between 2000 and 5000 each for spending money yearly. The G-5 will have to match and it will hurt their budgets to a much greater percentage at a time when college enrollments are decreasing and state funding keeps going down.



TELEVISION Keep and expand the high paying contracts with the major sports networks. Develop our own networks and This keeps P-5 conferences on the major channels and the others can go find their games on the internet somewhere.

Also keep referring to all teams not in the P-5 as the Group of 5 in football and as a mid major in basketball. If you can get the media to keep stats just on P-5 schools that is an added bonus.

Well they have done a masterful job executing this master plan. So I applaud you Central Florida for declaring yourselves National Champions.

clt says don’t forget John skipper’s role

You forgot, "When quality non P5 teams make the NCAA Tournament, match them against each other."

(02-24-2018 10:40 AM)Luckyshot Wrote:  You forgot, "When quality non P5 teams make the NCAA Tournament, match them against each other."

That is very true Lucky , so less of us advance so we lose media exposure and ncaa money.

Also if you remember in the BCS era 2 G-5 Teams at the time made it to a New Years Day Bowl. I think it was TCU and Boise. Of course they matched them against each other. They could have matched each one with a P-5 team but no.

That made sure that 2 power 5 teams would not get beat. And neither G-5 school could claim a victory over a P-5 team

Then they eliminated that possibility when they went to the 4 team playoff because in that agreement only the highest ranked G-5 goes to a New Years Day bowl. (so only 1 team)

They went one step further, (many don't know this) If the one in a million chance a G-5 team ever makes the 4 team playoff the G-5 lose their spot in the New Years Day bowls.

So anyone that does not think this is a coordinated effort by all of the P-5 conferences is blind. When you have the ncaa and espn in your pocket as well its game over.

And what happened this year when the G-5 UCF played Auburn in the Peach Bowl. UCF beat them and they have every right to claim a national championship as the only undefeated team in football.

UCF was not one of the best four teams in the country. I don't even think they were one of the eight best teams in the country, but if we had an eight team format, I believe they were good enough to be given one of those slots.

But I do not believe they would beat any of the four teams that made the playoff and had they played Auburn in a playoff game, rather than a consolation game, I do not believe they would have won that game either.

This is not to diminish UCF's victory, they beat the team that was put in front of them and they were a better team in a very entertaining game.

This is also not to say that Auburn "let them win" or wasn't trying to win themselves, I believe especially once it became clear that it would be a close game Auburn was playing just as hard as they do any game, but at the end of the day, you cannot convince me that Auburn prepared for UCF in the Peach Bowl like they would have the CFP.

If your argument is that any team that goes undefeated deserves a shot at the title, I agree, that's why I support a 16 team playoff with 10 autobids(even if the G5 bids are conditional, say 10+ wins), but going undefeated doesn't mean a 1 or 2 loss team can't still have a better resume than you. Overvaluing an undefeated season is how Sagarin ranked Harvard something like 33rd in a final poll a decade or so ago.