More games.

I was intirgued by a statement that June Jones made about having the G5 play a spring schedule rather than a fall schedule. But let me expand on that a bit. How about a fall AND spring schedule. The Fall schedule could be "in" conference and the spring against teams from other conferences - or you could do it vice-versa. Since we no longer would have the P5 making the rules, we would no longer have to abide by the rules they force on the rest of us.

This could create a movement to expand beyond the 12 teams we will have next year in the AAC to perhaps 16 teams and a 15 game schedule or even more than that. Then in the spring, we could play a schedule of nonconference games of say an additional 4 games instead of a spring game and a bunch of spring practices. A mini season so to speak. No matter how you look at it, more games equal more revenue.

Discuss?

Idk if a spring schedule would ever catch on... but I was thinking - instead of having a spring scrimmage where blue plays gold or 1s vs 2s, why not have a real game? Maybe not against a high level opponent (although that would be nice), but maybe an fcs school or even a d2 school if it came down to it. Charge a small amount for entry, treat it like a normal game (within reason, of course) and you may be able to offset some of the new extra expenses.

Of course, I have no idea if this is allowable through the ncaa, but just an idea.

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If the so called P5 break away, we can pretty much do anything we want because we are then in control. Our biggest fear should be the P5 trying to simply select who they want from whats left. That probbably means that they'd rob some of our AAC brothers as well as a few others from the MWC to be doormats for them. But if I were a TCU, Baylor, Northwestern, Vandy, Duke, Wake or some of the other privates, that sometime in the future they will be at jeopardy. Someone has to be the loser and since the state schools have all our taxed resources to provide them an alumni, they may not be able to keep up.

Colleges need to take a good hard look at themselves and decide if they are really in it to provide an education or an entertainment and elite status for their alums and doing it with our taxes. The system makes no sense actually. I think the Supreme Court would look unfavorably at college sports if they ever took a case like this.

But I think we could provide a quality product if we didn't have the state schools in the way. Its so belittling to get second rate coverage in our own city. But this has been happening for many years.

If the P5 breaks away and we're relegated to some quasi d2 status, we're screwed and should probably throw in the towel on the football program.

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I honestly think in a few years......there won't be any college football as we've known it.......the Me generation has taken care of that.....I think there will be football teams sponsored by OU, Ark, Ga, etc......they will really be pro teams.....maybe a minor league for the NFL......or maybe actually replace the NFL. The various colleges will just sponsor the team and there won't be any college attendance required in any way shape of form. Who wouldn't want 20-30 more pro teams than there are now and especially when your university is sponsoring them. I think the NFL should be just as scared as any university is!!!!! The only true college football will be more like D-III schools now......except with no scholarships or very limited scholarships or aid packages. Once these players start making money, how much will be enough, will all the schools agree or will a certain 20-25 want to offer more of everything. I have to be honest, I would hate to guess how many players, especially at the state schools, aren't really going to college any way.....I'm saying over 50% right now and maybe a lot higher percentage than that.....so it sure isn't a stretch to eliminate the college part all together!!!!

I still think the ones who have most to lose in all this is the sports networks and bowls. If the P5 completely create a divide, then a lot of TV networks will suffer along with many of the bowls like the ones we tend to play in - Hawaii, Armed Forces, probably Liberty and so on. But I would be more inclined to see us break away from direct competition with them. Move the season, play the games in the spring or have two different seasons like I stated before. Even if there is a complete divide, as long as the TV revenue and the bowls exist, we haven't really lost much. Adn I've been saying for a long time that we shouldn't sign unfair contracts with the OU's, OSU's and Arkansas' out there just for a short sighted money deal. We do just fine in the years we don't have them on the schedule.