Seeing the thread about Feinstein's article comparing AAC football to ACC begs the question about how the college football landscape will look in the future and U of Memphis' place in that landscape. One of his points was that schools not in P5 conferences need not apply for a national championship. UCF went undefeated 2 years in a row and never sniffed the playoff. No G5 school will get enough benefit of the doubt from the decision makers to get in, unless the expansion that has been rumored comes to pass and they slot the 8th seed to the G5 winner.

Short of that, what do you think the U of M should do in light of the fixed and broken D1, FBS college football system? If good coaches keep leaving for P5 schools, at what point do we acknowledge the ceiling that Memphis football has? How much more investment should be made? in what way should the school be investing in football?

(12-09-2019 01:34 PM)Collegiate Black Man Wrote:  Seeing the thread about Feinstein's article comparing AAC football to ACC begs the question about how the college football landscape will look in the future and U of Memphis' place in that landscape. One of his points was that schools not in P5 conferences need not apply for a national championship. UCF went undefeated 2 years in a row and never sniffed the playoff. No G5 school will get enough benefit of the doubt from the decision makers to get in, unless the expansion that has been rumored comes to pass and they slot the 8th seed to the G5 winner.

Short of that, what do you think the U of M should do in light of the fixed and broken D1, FBS college football system? If good coaches keep leaving for P5 schools, at what point do we acknowledge the ceiling that Memphis football has? How much more investment should be made? in what way should the school be investing in football?

This is the discussion that needs to be had. We won the AAC. We are going to the Cotton Bowl to play a P5 at large team. If we win the Cotton Bowl, that is the pinnacle of what we do here. It's a sad statement but true. Unless we somehow beg our way into a P5 conference, football is stuck. But....also suffering through some really bad years and a proud member of the 4100 club, I am going to the Cotton Bowl and enjoy the rest of this ride. This is historic!

GO TIGERS!!

The AAC is demonstrably stronger than the ACC this year. At this point, we probably need some kind of lawsuit for the AAC to get a seat at the table.

(12-10-2019 09:34 AM)Tiger87 Wrote:  We need advocates that will attack the exclusive, discriminatory power structure that currently exists. ESPN won't do it - they're making too much money off of it. No one else in the media cares. The NCAA should do it for the health of their member institutions. But they won't do it because they have acquiesced the post-season to the good ole bowl tradition.

And don't give me the "win the games and earn respect" nonsense. It's a double-standard. Besides, the games have been won, yet no change was yielded.

The NCAA has sold it's soul and the power institutions are more then happy to pay commission to the NCAA while they rake in all the cash. What other sport excludes half of it's teams from championship contention before the first game is played? What other sport lets ticket sales and tv ratings determine the teams that will play in the post-season?

As for what Memphis and the AAC should do? They need to be more direct in their fight for inclusiveness. Bring in the lawyers and congress. We've tried playing by the P5 rules, but it gets nowhere. In fact, while the competitiveness gets closer, we seem to be getting further away from an equality standpoint.

With all the protests, and fights against power, and large media exposes these days, it's kind of amazing that the general public is not aware of this problem in a billion dollar industry.

The big boys will never come to Memphis to play a game. That is what is unfair in this whole situation (The P5 controls whether you get respect).

If they choose not to play you then you then you don't have a shot.