(12-04-2017 06:58 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  The mistake the G5 made in 2012-2013 was establishing a bunch of low end bowls so 6-6 teams would rarely have to sit at home. The truth was, we actually already had enough low end bowls. What the G5 really needed was a few high quality bowls that could serve as suitable post season destinations for the four G5 champs that dont make the access bowl every year.

Had we done that, the G5 champs would all then have a quality bowl to go to and the 6-6 teams that used to be left out could go the bowl the champ used get stuck with. Sure, that would have cost a little more money, but in 2012-13 the G5 was about to come into 85 million dollars in CFP money (far in excess of their old BCS deal). They should have set a bit of that aside to create the quality bowls the G5 really needed.

I argued during the BCS era that the biggest mistake the non-BCS schools made was taking their check directly from the BCS and not funneling that money into create premier bowl games.

Now CUSA, Sun Belt, MAC, and most years MWC and AAC make more money from the CFP instead of TV so the money is certainly in place to create premier bowl games or making some existing games "premier".

Even if they were intra-G5 tacking a multi-million payday on some games that were regionally assigned and only open to schools that had at least won their division would create a showcase atmosphere.

While I'd like to buy P5 opponents the reality is turning back CFP money to P5 schools is just going to be an incredibly hard sell to the AD's and presidents.