(05-30-2021 04:40 PM)SDHornet Wrote:  

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(05-29-2021 04:25 PM)jdgaucho Wrote:  

(05-29-2021 03:58 PM)coogkat14 Wrote:  Do you follow FCS football? Sam Houston outside of NDSU is the most winningest football team of the last decade. And with this recent national championship arguably has a record that eclipsed even James Madison. No offense, but no one who follows college football would consider Tarleton State (one of the most winningest program from their time as a D2 program), ACU (great history of success, with a rising stock among FCS programs) or Sam Houston the recent Division 1 national champion a “bunch of randoms”. Especially compared to UC Davis and Cal Poly. Two Big Sky programs that have done literally nothing on the gridiron.


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I do not follow FCS football; if I did I'd be a USD Torero supporter.

But I am an alum of a school which shares a conference with Cal Poly and UC Davis. If they had a choice of FBS and aligning with Nevada, Fresno State and Boise State - Cal Poly briefly was in a conference with Boise and Nevada in the mid 90s - vs FBS and aligning with Sam Houston State, ACU and Tarleton State, they'd choose the former. It's more about joining regional peers than anything else.

This. The idea of Cal Poly and/or the dungpilers joining some TX programs for a shot at FBS is nonsensical.

Since I’m the one who mentioned these two schools I’ll clarify my comment. The question was which schools have the budget to move to FBS not which schools will join the WAC. I pointed out both Cal Poly and UCD have much larger athletic budgets budgets than Jacksonville State, one of the schools mentioned as one of the few FCS programs with the resources to move up along with James Madison and NDSU.

You said CP and ucd are "better positioned" which can mean a lot of things. I think there are a number of FCS programs that are "better positioned" from a budgetary standpoint. However when you factor in other metrics those in budgetary standing fall by the wayside.

Not that it matters as none of the CA FCS programs will be going FBS anytime soon, if ever; but CP has quite a bit of issues from an FBS standpoint. Sac State is better positioned than them on a number of fronts.

Yea. Budget is not the end all be all. Neither is program success otherwise we'd be FCS still lol.