I think Group of 5 start their own end of season playoffs a tell the biggies to go pound sand. I think G5 league champ vs G5 league champ would be a lot more interesting than what most of us are getting now with the current bowl program. I saw a proposal somewhere recently (don’t recall) for our own G5 playoffs and they had some of the matchups we’ve talked about here and thought hell yes!
Take the top 12 G5 teams and run playoff much like p5. Make our own TV deal with someone other than espn and hopefully/ possibly make a lot more money. Get on a network where they really want us and will promote the whole deal. How much do you think espn is going to really promote the Famous Toastery Bowl or the Scooters Coffee Frisco Bowl? If one of the 3 other major networks gets us we have a chance to really matter to them instead of a Saturday afternoon installment of Hardcore Pawn.
Certainly create a lot more interest for OUR SCHOOLS. Where getting an education still has something to do with the student in “student athlete”.
What do you think the reaction of the scorned schools from big/sec will be???
A whole other level between the big dick conferences and G5? Something like Leftovers League/East Coast—Leftovers League/Mid-America (don’t you 'effin infringe on the MAC namesake m’fers!) and last but not least Leftovers League/West Coast?
Maybe the two biggies have a play in like the bottom dwellers that get kicked out every year for the champs of the chump leagues move in. Like the delegation (I think that’s the term) in English soccer leagues. Their way to keep the middling’s clamoring at their feet!
I don’t see the B10 and SEC cutting out founding members for several reasons.
The powers still want some easy games.
They need to have a critical mass of teams in the conference to provide enough game inventory to maximize the media deal–i.e. Michigan-Purdue doesn’t turn on as many tv sets as Michigan-OSU, but it turns on enough to drive money into the bank.
Century-old affiliations among the B10 and SEC schools and in the case of the former decades of academic affiliation and collaboration.
Nobody has ever tried to kick out the founding member of a conference to cut them out of the money. Legal storm would be immense.
Never discount anything. The power conferences ruined college football in the pursuit of more money. I do not think Vanderbilt or NW would stick around just because of “history”
I am still sold on dissolving conferences for football and moving to the relegation system. Let other sports keep their traditional geographic based conferences.
It has appeared for quite some time that the lazy national media and ESPN want a steady diet of Texas vs Ohio State or Oregon vs Alabama.
Already all they’re talking about on ESPN College Sports radio this week is the national semis. There are 40 bowl games yet to play before we get to that but they don’t really give a crap until the day before each game.
Vanderbilt doesn’t invest in anything other than baseball, so who knows. Northwestern though has built some of the nicest facilities in the nation and have a new stadium on the way. I don’t think they’re going to put their nose in the air and walk away from the super league and its money to drop down to G5 level.
The money for this isn’t going to come from the university’s operating budget. They’re just going to main line the NIL dollars into the coffers as donations
This whole thing stinks of Big 8 ca 1984……
And maybe that’s the whole point……what if this is just a poison pill the NCAA is putting in place for these “autonomous “ programs?
Remember, Northwestern and Vanderbilt receive the same TV money as Michigan and Georgia respectively. They will have few problems anteing up funds that Miami and even blue bloods of the Big 12 will be unable to equal.
I highly doubt that the elite programs with the deepest pockets see it in their interests to sideline less successful conference mates. They are elite because they win and have institutional advantages over most opponents.
If they play only each other the elite programs will have records around 500 and will do irreparable long term damage to their brands
Who the hell came up with these team breakdowns? Sorry but they are not good. Mizzou below UC, UCF, WKU, Purdue, Memphis? No way. I’m not a Mizzou fan nor originally from Missouri, but that is a joke. And that is just one of many errors I see in these “brackets”.
The ONLY problem with what you said is, well, what you said. “Northwestern and Vanderbilt receive the same TV money as Michigan and Georgia respectively.”
If a new TV contract dictates Michigan vs Georgia, Alabama, Clemson, Notre Dame, USC, Texas, Oklahoma, Penn State, Ohio State, LSU and Oregon, Tennessee in a season, would be tough to say “Hey, let’s put on a ratings bonanza of Michigan vs Northwestern! Or FSU vs Vandy!”
Just all speculation on everyone’s part, but a FOX Big Saturday schedule of premier matchups EVERY week seems more likely than a Saturday slate of 3-4 great games and a bunch of Big 2 vs Little 8s. We will see what shakes out, though…
