(01-02-2019 08:08 PM)HW58 Wrote:  

(01-02-2019 04:57 PM)randyfensfanclub1 Wrote:  

(01-02-2019 09:14 AM)NIU007 Wrote:  

(01-01-2019 05:48 PM)niu1980 Wrote:  

(01-01-2019 02:50 PM)MaddDawgz02 Wrote:  He did actually, he said he wanted a playoff system to break away from the P5s, with a lower division

That’s not what he said. His idea was to create a G5 playoff to create an automatic qualifier to the FBS playoff because the current system will never allow a G5 into the playoff. You never allow facts to get in the way of your agenda.

I don't recall the part about the G5 playoff winner getting an AQ for the FBS playoff. I don't even see how that would work, as that would be a lot of games.

I got the impression it was just a separate G5 playoff.

I think it would be more like an NIT in basketball.

Which, if you think about it and "if" done the right way, might work.

But you would have to convince them to can the current system of bowl invites or make them open to non qualifiers other than NYD or potential big boy playoff. But I think that's where they would hope to succeed. While an 8 team playoff is nice to crown the NIT type champ you aren't going to have the rest turn down the crappy bowls and moreover these cities want the less of the lessers. You would do away with the conf championship and take divisions champs (would need to eliminate one conf likely) and seed them.

Won't happen but the notion can't be any more obscure than "sometimes" letting a G5 time play on NYD, never getting a shot at a title and many (usually MAC)playing their bowl games far from home in front of empty stadiums.

I don't know if I'm the only guy on the Pound who could give a rat's ass about the P5 playoff and watching Alabama vs. Clemson yet again (which I won't), but to me a G5 playoff would be outstanding. Taking Randy's comment one step further, done right I think it would stir up a lot of interest in the G5 conferences and teams among G5 fans who right now have no shot at watching their team in the P5 playoff system and are stuck with random, meaningless bowl games. Make it an 8-team playoff--champ of each conference plus three at large teams--and go for it. I don't care who they put in the other bowl games. Imagine a playoff with Boise, UAB, UCF, FAU, NIU, Memphis, Ohio, and Arkansas State. I'd tune in with great interest. Also, it really doesn't create another level--let's face it, there already are two levels in the FBS. And since they didn't know what to call the non-P5 schools they dubbed us the "Group of 5." How demeaning. I'm all in for a G5 playoff. Would be great!

Illinois State fan here, looking forward to a great game this fall. Posted on here before about my daughter choosing colleges and her interest in NIU, so believe me I’m no troll. Just looking to engage in witty sports talk.

That being said....RUN as far away from the idea of a G5 playoff. It sounds great on paper, but as a fan of a school that finished as runner up to NDSU in the FCS Championship, I was in Dallas/Frisco that year and ALL of the talk was about the OTHER game being played in Dallas that week Ohio State vs Oregon.

To be honest, If my team isn’t playing I have little interest in watching the FCS Championship game on a Saturday afternoon. The time slot sucked, the broadcasters couldn’t stop talking about the OTHER championship game. You get my point.

Take the bowl games, the oft chance you catch lightning in a bottle run the tables to set up a NYE/NYD bowl game.

It’s where I would rather see Illinois State to be honest.