(09-10-2021 08:42 AM)Yosef Himself Wrote: https://twitter.com/sunbelt/status/14363...16576?s=21
meh.
that's all nice and all, but doesn't mean jack **** for the future.
look at the MAC....had NIU and WMU both high on the horse and in big bowl games. they have disappeared since. even Boise has lost some luster since it's heyday.
any G5 league can have a moment. it's about sustaining it over time, like the AAC has done the past few years.
and the key to sustaining is having well supported programs. the more of those you have, the better.
THAT, more than any single season ranking, is why the SB has a better future than CUSA. Because they invited and invested in well supported programs and didn't get fooled by the market philosophy, which was the wrong path to take when you are not a P5 league
markets only work for getting your own conference network into as many cable homes as possible which will then pay your league a ton of $$$ in carrier fees...such as the BIG inviting Rutgers and Maryland to get in cable homes in the DMV in NY. it worked. my Fios in VA has the BIG network, but not the pac12. wonder why that is? hmmm.
No G5 league has, or will have, any kind of its own TV network. they have to generate revenue from ESPN/CBS/Fox, etc. But those networks are now seeing the money for that isn't in cable, it's in streaming. so it simply doesn't matter where a school is located, it's how many eyeballs they can get to stream.
that's why the market philosophy has, and will continue , to fail at the G5 level. Any of those leagues should be wanting schools with robust budgets and even more robust fan bases.....like App State, Ga Southern, ODU, Marshall, Louisiana, Arkansas State....and yes, JMU. Not the FU's/fGSU's of the world. they have no fans. and will have no eyeballs streaming. Ever.