(06-28-2023 02:32 PM)JMURocks Wrote:  

(06-28-2023 02:22 PM)JMad03 Wrote:  

(06-28-2023 02:14 PM)JMaddy Wrote:  

(06-28-2023 02:06 PM)JMad03 Wrote:  Not really that surprised about the upgrade fee.
However, I am really surprised at eliminating the attendance numbers.
There should be some accountability for schools to be able to attract their own fans to games. They should be trying to do things to make the FBS a better product. Things should be done to bring fans back to the live games, not reward schools for not caring about being bad or having little fan support.

I wonder how many G5 schools will struggle with the new scholarship requirement, and if so will any have to move down?

Going forward the $5M fee and 210 schollie requirement will make it prohibative to all but the best prepared FCS schools to move up after this next year. Glad we moved when we did because I'm not sure we'd have taken the leap under the new rules. Many current FCS powers might be in the 'now or never' camp this coming year and I'm not really sure there is a 'there' for them to all go (Montana, MT St., Dakotas, Delaware, etc). This feels like a 'the doors are closed for new FBS schools' moment.

If that rule were in place today, how many FBS schools would struggle to meet that requirement?
For FCS schools to move up, 5 mil is a LOT of money. It's definitely going to prevent many schools from giving it a shot. I bet KSU wouldn't have made the move up if that requirement were in place.

I'm not sure if the one-time fee is as much of a hurdle, as the increased scholarship requirements for all other sports ( ~$6m/yearly). If someone can't afford that one-time fee, how the heck would they afford other costs? But maybe it will make some schools think twice, and that's a good thing.

No need to slap a FBS label on FCS quality teams/programs. Enforcing attendance would push a few schools back down, and it might be hard to get that passed with a vote of FBS members. A couple conferences would struggle to exist I think.

I don't know about that. I think for a lot of schools especially the ones already kings of their markets (NDSU, SDSU, Montana, MT St) and have atheletic budgets in the $20-30M range, a $5M investment up front +$6M annually after transition is pretty significant with no revenue sharing for 2 years and even then G5 conference payouts aren't exactly huge. The ROI will be hard to justify unless they find some 'angel investor' willing to front that cost. You have to remember a lot of those schools aren't fully funding schollies in ALL sports the way JMU was already doing before we moved up. I would think SHSU and JSU would be hard pressed to pay $5M extra, maybe they knew it was coming and jumped at the 'last chance'. EWU will certainly never be able to move up, which is fine by me with their fugly red carpet.

I think most schools already at the FBS will find a way or are already meeting the minimums or they wouldn't agree to it, but I do wonder if any of the ones with smaller athletic budgets aren't quite there and if not would that added cost be prohibative (e.g. ULM, Northern Illinois, Bowling Green)