(05-12-2020 01:17 PM)Stugray2 Wrote:  You guys arguing for AAC and other conferences than the Big East are bloating the P5 breakaway. The whole point is to dump all of them, not to bring them along with the mind set of "lets be nice to Timmy" here.

A P5 break means that, just the P5. Basketball might force the inclusion of the Big East. A couple of Football Independents are possible, but on a case by case basis, and only for Football, and maybe none at all (I mean BYU is anything but a sure bet, never mind UCF or Houston).

If you expect an open invitation policy it's not going to be there. You have to demonstrate you pull your weight as a major, when it comes to revenue. And that doesn't mean matching Washington State, think more like matching South Carolina or Oregon or Minnesota. BYU maybe, everyone else a definite no.

The UCF, Houston, Cincy, Memphis, Boise State, San Diego State, Gonzaga, Dayton can yell until they are blue in the face, but it wont get them in. This is the fear of being left behind that drives the panic spending to get in the P5. There is no P6. When that line is drawn it will be brutal, as brutal as when Houston, Rice, SMU and TCU got left out of the B12 and when Cincy, USF and UConn were unable to catch a life raft out of the old Big East. I expect a lot of panic, as these schools will be looking at severe revenue reductions.

Wrong. The "whole point" is for the P5 to have the governance and the division they want. If they want the the Big East, AAC, MW, indys, or whoever---they will make that choice. In other words, P5 will decide how their division will look.