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  1. If teams get into a playoff based on their performance during the season (duh) then there has to be scheduling parity to have anything that makes sense. Because of money, we can't and won't have scheduling parity. There has to be a financial reason to change this fucked up system and right now, there is not. Maybe having both Texas and ND miss the playoffs this year would spur some change. But you've got schools in the Big 10 and SEC making $70M per school per year. Are any of those schools going to voluntarily give up tens of millions of dollars just to make a "cleaner" or "more fair" playoff system. FUCK no. This is a financial problem, not an idea problem.
  2. THIS is why everything is all fucked up: ACC: $17M/school/year SEC: $68.75M/school/year Big 10: $71.875M/school/year Big XII: $22M/school/year going to $31.7M/school/year in 2026. ND: $50M/year from NBC + $17M from ACC/year = $67M/year CFP payouts: $4M+$3M (12) $4M+$3M (8) $6M+$3M (4) $6M+$3M (2) Semifinalists would receive max payout of $32M each. In order to reach scheduling parity required for a fair playoff seeding system, there would have to be massive conference realignment. From there, the payouts to each school would have to be adjusted requiring a massive amount of negotiation and huge complications. What should happen is that each school gets a payout commensurate with their brand value. (Texas just happens to have the highest brand value in college sports - hee, hee.) Or, it could be a tiered system, like everyone in Tier 1 gets $XX, Tier 2 gets $YY. It never could be equal payments for all because there is too big of a disparity between the most valuable brands and the least. The teams that would get royally fucked by this are the lower value teams in the SEC and Big 10. We're talking a swing of $40M per year or something like that. Here would be my proposed realignment with 7 divisions of ten teams each, which are roughly regional and include roughly equal strength of teams. Northwest Oregon Washington BYU Utah TCU Colorado Cal Stanford Oregon St. Washington St. Southwest Texas Oklahoma (sux) USC UCLA Texas Tech Arizona Arizona St. Baylor Oklahoma St. SMU Midwest Notre Dame Wisconsin Northwestern Nebraska Illinois Minnesota Iowa Iowa St. Kansas Kansas St. South Texas A&M (sux) LSU Alabama Auburn Houston Arkansas Missouri Mississippi St. Ole Miss South Carolina Southeast Georgia Florida Tennessee UCF Georgia Tech Wake Forest Vanderbilt Louisville Kentucky Virginia Tech Atlantic Clemson Florida St. Miami North Carolina Duke NC State Virginia Maryland Rutgers Boston College North Ohio State Michigan Penn St. Syracuse Pitt Michigan St. West Virginia Purdue Indiana Cincinnati Top 2 from each division make the playoffs plus two at large teams. No early signing period. No early enrollees. National signing day is second Friday in February. Nobody can talk to a coach until his season is over. Portal open March 1st through May 1st. Spring practices are in May after finals. $20M per school in player payroll that increases 5-10% each year. Unlimited LEGITIMATE NIL that is heavily policed and penalized.
  3. I disagree. I think having the G5 with its own set of playoffs and a chance to be national champion would actually increase interest in those schools' football programs. It might even be a large revenue generator. They are already second class citizens in the college football world. I'm not trying to be insulting. I'm just really tired of pretending that Wyoming, Troy and Bowling Green are in the same ballpark at Tennessee, Ohio State and USC.
  4. Yes, but football ain't basketball. Much easier for an upset in basketball. How many G5 upsets of major P4 schools have there been in the last 10, 20 years. I remember Michigan/App. St. and Aggy/UL Ragin' Cajuns. It's pretty damned rare.
  5. So you're saying that giving G5 conference winners would eventually strengthen all G5 rosters and eventually put them on the same, or at least a closer level, to the P4 schools. That would take a long time and I still think it would be very, very unlikely. There are 136 teams. There's only talent enough now to have maybe, maybe 30 teams with any kind of realistic shot at a championship in any given year. No level of dilution is going to create parity for 136 teams. However, 7 equal 10-team divisions probably would strengthen the rosters of the other P4 schools...
  6. It wouldn't take relegation. As I said upthread - there are 70 teams in P4 + ND, Oregon St. and Washington St. It's not that hard, actually, to construct 7 10-team regional conferences that are roughly equal in terms of the quality of teams. You have to have scheduling parity. Realignment can accomplish that.
  7. So why do FCS schools have football if it's such a grim prospect? Also, I'm not suggesting that P4 schools be forbidden from playing G5 schools, just that they are in separate divisions and have a separate playoff system. They can still get their pay games to be slaughtered. I am suggesting that P4 schools shouldn't be allowed to schedule FCS schools. Lastly, with their own playoff they would then have those playoff games and potential for a national championship as incentives they don't currently have as well as the revenue that would go with it.
  8. It's fucking it up for any bubble team. What does the G5 add to the sport's health? I'm not suggesting the G5 give up their football programs; I'm saying they need their own division. It's de facto the way it is already except they don't have a prayer of making the playoffs or winning a championship. Under the current system, you could absolutely go undefeated and not be in the playoff. See UCF 2017. Agree to disagree about auto bids for the winner of the G5 conferences. You would then have 11 of the best teams in the country (assuming the P4 conference winners were the highest ranked) and 5 scrubs. What good is that?
  9. What? The G5 auto bid is part of what is fucking everything up. Why should an obviously inferior team make the 12 team playoff when it's supposed to be the 12 best teams? If the FCS went away, does that damage the P4 and G5 teams? Other than taking away lambs for the slaughter, absolutely not. The G5 needs to be a separate division with their own playoffs and national champion. That would add a level of opportunity and excitement that they don't currently have. I would think it would attract more people watching and participating, not fewer. The needs and scale of the P4 and G5 are too different to be lumped together. That's also part of the problem - the current playoff system is a one size fits none solution.
  10. Ole Miss realized that they might miss the playoff without any offensive coaches left. Woopsie!
  11. One national signing day the second Friday in February. No early enrollees. Schools can't talk to coaches until after that coach's team's season is over. Portal is open March 1st-June 1st. Spring practices moved to start second Monday of June.
  12. Ah, Ms. Danzig for me.
  13. This is what it should be if ranking the 12 best teams: 1. Ohio State 2. Georgia 3. Indiana 4. Oregon 5. Texas 6. Alabama 7. Oklahoma 8. Texas A&M 9. Texas Tech 10. Miami 11. Notre Dame 12. OIe MIss 13. Vanderbilt 14. BYU 15. Utah
  14. I think it should happen if for no other reason that to hasten the blowing up of the whole fucked up system.
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