(02-01-2019 01:24 PM)Wedge Wrote:  

(02-01-2019 12:43 PM)CliftonAve Wrote:  

(02-01-2019 11:45 AM)Wedge Wrote:  

(02-01-2019 10:51 AM)arkstfan Wrote:  The trim FBS people cannot articulate any real reason to trim it and no one who understands how the intercollegiate economy works would expect the P5 to harm themselves by trimming G5 away.

Nobody should be "forced" out. And any school who wants to move from FCS to FBS and can afford it should be able, if they want, to do what Liberty did. As long as you can demonstrate for at least a few years out that you will have a football schedule full of FBS opponents including 5 home games a year, you should be in.

As for anyone suggesting on a message board that a school should drop out of FBS -- that's just someone's harmless internet opinion, no different from someone else going the opposite direction and opining that 73 other schools should start an FBS football program. :coffee3:

With all due respect Wedge, while I agree some are just bantering in harmless internet opinion, there are just as many who eagerly await the day some school(s) drop out of the FBS. As Arkstfan pointed out, they believe their school will profit off the fact some school in another party of the country bowed out.

I understand that it's annoying, but it's still harmless. Another example: There are a lot of folks back east who hate all of us here and eagerly await the day that California falls off the continent and sinks to the bottom of the ocean. That might be irritating to those of us who live here, but they can't make it happen by wishing it so. Just as no one on the internet can make any school drop out of FBS by blogging that the school should drop out.

Not true. Without California we couldn't watch college football and basketball at midnight. I think you guys got the better side of the deal though. I would prefer breakfast ballgames but that's probably due to age, 15 years ago it'd have been different.