RE: TCU Got screwed
This is precisely why all conferences need to have equal opportunity in the playoff. If we are treated as if we are not D-1 NCAA schools or conferences, and distinguished by everyone, the NCAA, the media, and even it seems our own alumni, as inferior, and unworthy to eat at the same table as the Walmart schools, then we will never have the opportunity to grow into "relevant". On the other hand, if our conference champs are guaranteed a spot in playoff each year, that at least removes the stigma of being an acknowledged step child of the " real" ESPN worthy programs and conferences. Moreover, recruits would know, like they do in basketball, that if they play for a good football MAC school, they have a better chance at playing on the big NCAA playoff stage than say an Indiana, Vanderbilt, Rutgers, or even Mississippi state, UCLA, Wisconsin. That is a huge selling point.
It seems too many of our own have been willing to accept the argument that mid majors are unworthy. I have never accepted that, and encourage the rest of you to reject it as well. If the NCAA thinks we are inferior schools, and unworthy of equal opportunity in their playoff, then they can kick us out. Until then we are an NCAA d-1 conference, and just as it is done in all other sports, slow our conf champ in the dance.
Come on everyone. Leave your rakes in the field and take arms. Lol
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