(06-30-2020 01:41 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  These kinds of threads are always posted by fans of schools that are outside the P5 and think "my school belongs in the (insert initials of P5 conference) more than (insert name of P5 school the fan thinks is 'dead weight') does! Let's move them out and move my school in!

You're a USF/Georgetown fan, right?

(06-30-2020 12:51 PM)cubucks Wrote:  

(06-30-2020 12:47 PM)Erictelevision Wrote:  How would you move the P5 dead weight to a reasonable G5 conference? I'd move WSU and OSU to the MWC
ISU and Northwestern to the MAC
can't decide any more, mostly because they don't have G5 homes readily available

People always throw Northwestern out there. I wouldn't call the numbers I see with the Wildcats as "dead weight". Maybe dig a little more and you might find the other school in the same state as them more fitting for the dead weight term.

(06-30-2020 01:27 PM)utpotts Wrote:  

(06-30-2020 12:47 PM)Erictelevision Wrote:  How would you move the P5 dead weight to a reasonable G5 conference? I'd move WSU and OSU to the MWC
ISU and Northwestern to the MAC
can't decide any more, mostly because they don't have G5 homes readily available

Iowa State draws 60,000+ for home football games, and Northwestern outside of the 2019 season went to 4 straight bowl games.

Did you eat paint chips when you were a child or have you been hangout with NoDak too much?

(06-30-2020 01:43 PM)Bronco14 Wrote:  Most would try to go to AAC.

If we're talking MAC, Iowa St would fit better in the MW. Ames is too far out of the MAC's footprint.

Illinois, Purdue, Indiana more likely than Northwestern IMO.

This is once again assuming football is the only criteria for strongest and weakest links of a conference. There are other criteria as well. The university that is great in football today could be a bad team 10 years from now or vice versa. I remember when Northwestern was really bad in football too. Yes Northwestern is better than Illinois in football lately. Do we know that will be the case 5 years from now? Illinois's the flagship university of the state and has way more alumni than Northwestern, including in the Chicago area. If Illinois and Northwestern were both just as good in football, Illinois would be way more valuable to the Big Ten.