(03-11-2019 07:58 AM)Yosef84 Wrote:  Perhaps that and the teams that are below 50% are WAY below 50%.

True. It's amazing how many perennial doormats exist in the Power 5 conferences, and despite their ineptitude, it must feel more prestigious to be a loser Kansas in the BigXII than to possibly be a winner elsewhere. Maybe that's what killed a couple of former conferences like the SWC and WAC. It had to be a drag for Texas to keep having to play the likes of Rice, Baylor and TCU. Or in the Big8, it had to be downlifting for OU and Nebraska to have to play ISU, KU and the other weak sisters.

I much prefer the promotion and relegation schemes of the English soccer leagues. It makes sense to me for the last place AA team to be demoted to the A league, while the A league champs can be promoted to the AA league.

This is the kind of downward mobility that Rice deserves, and the upward mobility that Boise State should get. And it would be nice to avoid the politics that seem to always prevent Houston from assuming its rightful place in a P5 conference. But alas, we are living in a fallen world.