I believe that the people who put this proposal together know perfectly well that the AAC are not going to participate, so this proposal as it stands will certainly never go ahead.
That makes this proposal what you would call a stalking horse ... a horse without an expectation that it will win, but rather hoping to set an early pace that is good for another horse, to help that other horse win.
After the AAC does its raid, the schools remaining in the western conference is the start of a western reshuffle, the schools in the eastern conference the start of the eastern reshuffle, and the appeal of the plan depends on where they put the boundary in the middle of the middle conference, which can be subject to negotiation.
But having the three way set-up, then subtracting the AAC schools and the ones they take, there is more flexibility to negotiate a geographic reshuffle.
(10-09-2021 11:26 PM)Wedge Wrote: Only FBS conferences get a cut of the CFP money. Everyone thinks there will be more money in the next CFP deal. There is no way any G conference will give up FBS status.
Yes, the roughly $60m part of the ~$90m above that is not the per-school amount is shared among "Non-contract FBS conferences", since the way they avoid anti-trust issues in the distinction between P5 and Go5 schools is by the formally independent business decision of the bowl committees who they want to have a contract with.
And the Access Bowl race is for the best non-Contract FBS champion.
So if any Go5 conference dropped FBS status they'd drop to the $300K per school during the current contract, wouldn't be in the Access Bowl race, and would not necessarily be at the negotiating table to be a signatory for the next CFP negotiations.
Also, you need 7 full members to be a multi-sport Division 1 conference anyway, so 8 full members to be an FBS conference is not all that far from the Division 1 minimum.
(10-09-2021 06:11 PM)All4One Wrote: (10-09-2021 01:39 PM)BePcr07 Wrote: My guess is Aresco will politely reject the offer and extend invites to schools in the AAC and/or Sun Belt.
There won't be many to choose from with the budget expectations of the AAC. Unless they are willing to make concessions.
This is a red herring. The AAC will choose the schools that they want. They will take the hard spending on FB and MBB into account, but if there is a school they otherwise want that they worry will not make a sufficient commitment, they'll negotiate on that rather than just rejecting that school outright.