(06-23-2021 10:27 AM)solohawks Wrote:  

(06-23-2021 10:18 AM)Schadenfreude Wrote:  

(06-23-2021 07:40 AM)solohawks Wrote:  What is the goal of FCS?

FCS was created to keep a bunch of Division I schools out of FBS.

I imagine this was originally about TV money, or something, although I've never been sure.

from what I've learned from ArkStfan, it was created with a bunch of false promises to keep smaller schools at a different level in order to attempt to keep the bigger schools aligned and satisfied under the NCAA football TV deal.

When the NCAA lost the 1984 Supreme Court case and conferences began taking greater control and maximizing their revenue, the goals for which 1AA was created were no longer needed.

Well, if someone waived a wand tomorrow and merged all the Division I schools into one football division, you'd see about 60 football teams up and disappear, so there's that. I don't think it's accurate to look at FCS as something foisted upon the schools there and only these darn NCAA bylaws are keeping them from taking the college football world by storm.

99% of schools in the FCS are there because they have no business competing (or even "competing" in the UMass/ULM sense) against Alabama or Clemson.