(07-13-2018 12:47 PM)USAFMEDIC Wrote: (07-12-2018 09:33 PM)JRsec Wrote: (07-12-2018 09:19 PM)AllTideUp Wrote: (07-12-2018 08:12 PM)JRsec Wrote: (07-12-2018 07:37 PM)OdinFrigg Wrote: Say the B12 does have departures of OU, oSu, KU & WVU.
Texas has offers, but does not budge.
The UT people explore if they can create their own, new conference with essentially total control, yet have revenue coming in that is competitive with what was offered by other top conferences.
Assuming with Texas, that TCU, TTU, Baylor, KSU, and ISU remain, that would be six schools.
Texas leads in offers to Houston, Rice, SMU, and Tulane.
That would make 10.
Suppose they go further and add Memphis, Cincinnati, USF, and UCF.
That would be 14.
One can change the names with CSU or BYU and such.
I am not breaking them into divisions; you get the point.
Texas would be only highly elite member. Texas may exchange a few very prominent old conference opponents for lesser names in totality, but provide a more submissive group to financially and politically control and dominate.
Would the other P5 conferences keep them in their power fold along with the privileges afforded? I expect so, at least initially and minimumly for that level.
Certainly there would be drawbacks. But I believe Texas will consider such, again if they can financially swing it to their liking. They drop the Big12 name, calling the group something new. They would need a generous network backer.
I am not advocating this; rather trying to anticipate Texas' mindset when the time comes. If the effort fails or results become too lackluster, Texas exits and takes a 'P4' offer.
All it takes to destroy that option is a Champs Only format for the remaining P4. Even if we kept the CFP Selection Committee if Texas's SOS was judged to be lacking the opportunity to make the CFP being missed a few times would be enough to end it.
Well, it depends.
Technically, a champs only format could be done with more than 4 conferences. The requirement would be a conference championship to make the cut, but if you create a stipulation that Power conference champions become automatic qualifiers then that takes on a new meaning.
I think we'll have a very hard time creating an automatic qualifier system for a 4 team CFP until the Power leagues separate and form their own division.
The benefit of a champs only format is that we could force Notre Dame into the ACC and create greater stability. However, I'm not sure all the autonomy leagues would vote for that.
Only the SEC would have a reason to be against it. We are the only one's to have had a legitimate reason to believe we could get two in. Why? Because we did.
I say expand the playoff format and take eight champions. The NCAA BB tourney lets the smaller conferences compete. Why not take the P5, and the top three G5 champs? This would eliminate the need for a committee of so called experts while deciding this on the field. Four quarterfinal bowl games on New Year's Day. Seed them one through eight. If not, there needs to be a separate championship for G5 schools which will never get credit for on-field accomplishments or a bid to play the big game.
You think that if you wish but it's not happening. We aren't adding another week to the season if the conferences don't directly benefit for doing it.
The NCAA basketball tournament only steals from rich to give a pittance to the poor and to line the NCAA's pockets to the tune of 70 million dollars a year which is subsequently placed in one of their two endowments which together total over 1 billion dollars and all of it has come from the tournament where they withhold payouts to the schools for 3 years and then payout averaged credits over 5 years while pocketing the interest on the money while they withhold it.
It's the biggest damn scam in all of college sports.
The little schools Medic all subsidize their football at a rate of 25% or higher which is not helping education and is costing the taxpayers of their respective states a tidy sum so Podunk U can pretend to be Ohio State, Alabama, or Notre Dame. It's wasteful. And at a time when state budgets are massively constricted to waste money on mid tier programs that cannot support their own program without substantial help from the taxpayers is criminal. It needs to end.
We don't need 8 conferences, nor 8 teams in a playoff. We need to downsize the ballooning higher education earmarks and invest in trade schools. And realize soberly that not every Tom, Dick, and Harry small state school needs a football program that it can't support on its own. Having a sports team at a state university is a privilege, not a right. If it is self sustaining then fine. If not then it burdens us all to operate any such entity that loses money.
Having football at UAB and Troy costs a state of just under 4 million people about 50 million a year in subsidies and earmarks. So $10.25 cents comes out of every person in the states pocket just so the city of Birmingham can rape the state for another 6 to 7 million a year for a lease on run down Legion Field so fewer than 20 thousand people can watch football. And so fewer than 20,000 roughly the entire population of Troy Alabama can watch football.
So for the sake of fewer than 40,000 people the taxpayers pay 50 million a year. That's backassward government!
The difference Medic between the P5 and the G5 is that every G5 school requires a 25% subsidy or larger to play football. Only 4 out of the 65 P schools requires more than a 15% subsidy and the rest are under 10% or have none.
We need 4 conferences of about 60 schools playing football because that is the number of programs who could afford to play without any subsidies. And at 60 you don't need 8 schools in a playoff.
