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FBS needs fewer teams, not more championships
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RE: FBS needs fewer teams, not more championships
sign me up.
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RE: FBS needs fewer teams, not more championships
So who are the 29 teams and what happens to the conferences, and left over teams, that get decimated? Relegation and Elevation, has to be in there as well. You can't limit it and lock it up forever, you'll get the FTC after you for unfair trade practices. There is some merit to this, but the NCAA doesn't have the balls to truly police this and I can't see it ever being implemented.
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RE: FBS needs fewer teams, not more championships
If the NCAA would enforce some perfectly reasonable attendance rules, we'd be back to the status quo ante as of about 1999, and USM would still be relevant.
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RE: FBS needs fewer teams, not more championships
I'm officially dumber
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RE: FBS needs fewer teams, not more championships
(12-31-2016 09:38 AM)AndreWhere Wrote: If the NCAA would enforce some perfectly reasonable attendance rules, we'd be back to the status quo ante as of about 1999, and USM would still be relevant.
The "relevance" of USM is dependent on the attendance of other programs?
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RE: FBS needs fewer teams, not more championships
(12-31-2016 10:11 AM)FIU4Ever Wrote: (12-31-2016 09:38 AM)AndreWhere Wrote: If the NCAA would enforce some perfectly reasonable attendance rules, we'd be back to the status quo ante as of about 1999, and USM would still be relevant.
The "relevance" of USM is dependent on the attendance of other programs?
I think he is saying if there was a threshold of say 25k per game that Southern Miss would be included with a revelant grouping of teams. In the 90's they were very relevant. I watched them beat Alabama on espn and ranked in the top 25 many times.
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ThreeifbyLightning
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RE: FBS needs fewer teams, not more championships
In other words, this USM fan is scared of competition. Basically, new schools moving up to I-A have stolen recruits away that otherwise would have went to USM. USM is the Radio Shack of college football. Unable to adapt to the times and begin to go by the wayside.
With that said, I do agree with the premise of limiting I-A teams (just not for the reason that this USM fan does).
When Middle Tennessee made the move up we had to meet numerous criteria that don't exist anymore including both attendance and stadium size. There needs to be some criteria in place and to that I agree with the writer.
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12-31-2016 11:18 AM |
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RE: FBS needs fewer teams, not more championships
The P5 are pushing hard for fewer teams and are well in their way to cutting it back to 64.
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RE: FBS needs fewer teams, not more championships
I am not sure why attendance is always the measuring stick for a successful, competing, program. Just because a program doesn't have 30,000 fans, doesn't mean it is an unsuccessful or unworthy program.
WKU has had its attendance struggles. But, does that make WKU unworthy of being FBS? Our record and performance on the field would say otherwise.
If a program can financially and competitively compete then they should have a chance. Survival of the fittest. I just hate arbitrary ceilings and requirements just to eliminate.
The bigger issue is the subsidy of football that many Universities are providing (WKU included.) If you want to look at a real problem with lower-level FBS, look at how much money is being spent from tuition and state dollars (if allowed) to support a program that cannot support itself. That is what is alarming and should perhaps send some schools down to FCS.
I love athletics, but let's not forget what the primary purpose of our insitutions is -- educate.
(This post was last modified: 12-31-2016 11:32 AM by galojah.)
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RE: FBS needs fewer teams, not more championships
Attendance? LOL.
Why choose 25,000 as a cutoff? The top 30 average starts at around 50,000. They laugh at 25,000.
Oh wait....The top 10 average around 100,000 and more. They giggle at 50,000 and belly laugh at 25,000.
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12-31-2016 11:52 AM |
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RE: FBS needs fewer teams, not more championships
That's 5 minutes of my life I will never get back.
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12-31-2016 12:06 PM |
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RE: FBS needs fewer teams, not more championships
(12-31-2016 11:18 AM)ThreeifbyLightning Wrote: USM is the Radio Shack of college football. Unable to adapt to the times and begin to go by the wayside.
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RE: FBS needs fewer teams, not more championships
This is an attendance list from a year ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/CFB/comments/4i..._rankings/
If you assume the data is correct you could set the cutoff at 20k and end up with 99 teams.
If you wanted it to be 15k you'd lose 9 teams.
25k would leave us with only 82 teams, this would probably remove most of the criticisms about undersupported teams but would also lose some valuable schools. The Mountain West would be left with 3 schools (maybe 4 if CSU was having even a marginally down year), C-USA would have 2. The MAC and the Sunbelt would be gone entirely. Only the AAC would come out reasonably in tact with 9 teams remaining. At that point I suppose Marshall and USM would be absorbed into the AAC and the MWC schools to the PAC. Army ND and BYU would be the remaining independents. Also in this scenario there are no losses for P5 conferences.
(This post was last modified: 12-31-2016 12:16 PM by ECBrad.)
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RE: FBS needs fewer teams, not more championships
(12-31-2016 09:38 AM)AndreWhere Wrote: If the NCAA would enforce some perfectly reasonable attendance rules, we'd be back to the status quo ante as of about 1999, and USM would still be relevant.
In CUSA 2.0? USM was still not relevant on the national scene and neither was Tech. If relevant do you mean being associate with some stronger FBS programs yes, but USM was still ignored by the national sports media.
I get it, This writer wants to turn back time when USM was in a stronger G5, have not conference. I agree with the sentiment that there are too many FBS programs that are a drain on their Universities with little support.
(This post was last modified: 12-31-2016 12:15 PM by Dawgxas.)
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RE: FBS needs fewer teams, not more championships
(12-31-2016 12:14 PM)Dawgxas Wrote: (12-31-2016 09:38 AM)AndreWhere Wrote: If the NCAA would enforce some perfectly reasonable attendance rules, we'd be back to the status quo ante as of about 1999, and USM would still be relevant.
In CUSA 2.0? USM was still not relevant on the national scene and neither was Tech. If relevant do you mean being associate with some stronger FBS programs yes, but USM was still ignored by the national sports media.
I get it, This writer wants to turn back time when USM was in a stronger G5, have not conference. I agree with the sentiment that there are too many FBS programs that are a drain on their Universities with little support.
I suspect that more than a few FBS school admins would love to move down due to overwhelming costs, and would jump at the chance to be able to blame it on NCAA rules to their ADs and Donors.
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12-31-2016 12:22 PM |
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RE: FBS needs fewer teams, not more championships
(12-31-2016 12:22 PM)ODUalum78 Wrote: I suspect that more than a few FBS school admins would love to move down due to overwhelming costs, and would jump at the chance to be able to blame it on NCAA rules to their ADs and Donors.
I'd say you are right. Even as a diehard fan that I am, I am uneasy about the amount of money WKU funnels to athletics.
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RE: FBS needs fewer teams, not more championships
(12-31-2016 09:13 AM)EagNBran Wrote: https://southernmiss.rivals.com/news/fbs...mpionships
I LOVE it! Especially the part about forcing some programs who routinely have 7 and 8 home games a year to go on the road and win. That's LONG overdue, and it would give the rest of us a much better chance.
Quote:If the NCAA is truly concerned about the overall health of FBS football and not just those teams at the very top (from a budge perspective) they should place a 10 year moratorium on the addition of any new FBS teams.
The second step would be to install attendance standards at the FBS level. A good starting point would be 20,000 paid or actual per game with a minimum of six home games.
If this would have been enforced over the previous three years roughly 25 teams would be relegated to FCS level and Coast Carolina would not meet the 15,000 transition period average to move up.
In all likelihood the number of FBS team would stabilize around 96-100. This would allowed reorganization into seven conferences and a truly equitable 12-team play-off system could be installed. Each league champion receiving an automatic bid with five at-large bids to follow.
This would also allow a reduction in the overall number of bowls and while maintaining a healthy meaningful bowl system.
A third step would be to limit FBS programs from having more than 34 home games in a rolling 5 year period of time to force some programs who routinely have 7 and 8 home games a year to go on the road and win.
These steps are simple but they would not be easy to implement.
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RE: FBS needs fewer teams, not more championships
(12-31-2016 11:24 AM)monarx Wrote: The P5 are pushing hard for fewer teams and are well in their way to cutting it back to 64.
Only 10-12 programs are actually pushing for that. The majority of so called power 5 schools could not compete that way. Just like the 4 team beauty contest was set up for 8-12 teams and no one else. Dabo Sweeny and Clemson is crashing their party though and so is Washington this year
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(12-31-2016 09:38 AM)AndreWhere Wrote: If the NCAA would enforce some perfectly reasonable attendance rules, we'd be back to the status quo ante as of about 1999, and USM would still be relevant.
The point of the article is clear: The barriers to entry are too low for FBS football. There should be some minimal standards implemented for the good of us all.
This article does a good job of exposing the "watering down" of FBS football that has happened over the past 20 years due to the plethora of "wanna be" football programs trying to move up too fast. We all know who they are. They think all it takes is a little money and a little effort, and they can be a big boy too. LA Tech fans have seen this up close and personal, with ULM only 30 miles away. ULM truly has no business being in FBS, and is nothing more than a local irritant pulling media attention and the occasional recruit away from the legitimate G5 schools in the area. Problem is, schools like ULM hurt all G5 programs in the long run because they give all G5's a bad name.
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