My issue isn't with paying players and my issue issue isn't with the portal. My issue IS having no salary cap and unrestricted free agency which is a horrible idea for any league.
9 conference games are stupid. Play 8 and 2 P5 OOC games
The NFL operated that way for many years. MLB operates just fine.
Let me know when a team playing 9 conference games wins a natty
Yup. All of these things would have evolved and been sorted out naturally but for the schools/ncaa keeping indentured servants for several decades
Top OOC matchups are the best part of a dying sport.
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G5 just joining FCS or we creating a whole new level?
The new division of larger schools would go even further into killing smaller schools. At least the Purdues, Boston Colleges, Kansas States, and Vanderbilts of the world could latch onto their conference mates for payouts. When the new division of larger schools forms, who is going to watch Northwestern play Cal? Those programs won't get televised, won't have the money to travel, and will basically just fade into FCS world at best.
As long as the public schools that are part of this new division keep funneling money to the rest of the sports at their schools that lose money every year, they'll be fine. It's going to take a lot of restructuring at some places that have taken on debt banking on that conference cash (Arizona, for example, is already up shits creek due to poor money management).
Impossible to do without having conferences with no geographical ties. The talent is almost entirely concentrated east of the Mississippi, and mostly in the SE more specifically. Unless you're having Georgia, Miss St, Kansas State, Arizona, BYU, Boston College, Maryland and Wisconsin type divisions it would never fly.
No one has had unrestricted free agency.
No one was an indentured servant.
“Come over here, and toil for our profit, and risk injury, and only get room and board, all for a chance at a better life afterward.”
this is 100% correct.
One they didn‘t have to play
