The Media and what they see

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Re: The Media and what they see

Postby Spence » Sat Dec 14, 2019 9:57 pm

They aren't ever going to make it a fair process. it just isn't going to happen.
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Re: The Media and what they see

Postby Cane from the Bend » Sun Dec 15, 2019 8:13 am

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The 8 game model will be set to protect the Pac-12 from being dismantled ...

However, that will only see the Power5 Champs and 3 @ Large bids [undoubtedly with preferential option inclusive to Notre Dame].

If you look at where the committee ranks the Group of 5 Top Teams, you can clearly see that there is no avenue to the Tournament. Even when being undefeated for two years in a row, UCF could only make the final 12. So, they have already shown us that there is zero availability for a G5 team to even sniff the Top 8.

It's one thing to say; Other teams in the past had to play their way into relevancy to have a seat at the table. The problem with that dogmatic ideology in today's college football, is that the Power Conferences have made steps to segregate themselves from the smaller schools. Merely by Classifying the differences as:

The Power 5
The Group of 5

You suggest an elitism that divides the two, defining those in the former, as being better.

No way can a G5 program do what the independent schools of the past were able to do.

For example; the1974 Miami Hurricanes Schedule was:
[year I was born]

[away] -v- #19 Houston --- Independent
[away] -v- Tampa --- Independent [their last football season]
[home] -v- #11 Auburn --- SEC
[home] -v- Pacific --- PCAA [ended football program after 1995 season]
[away] -v- West Virginia --- Independent
[away] -v- #7 Notre Dame --- Independent
[home] -v- Virginia Tech --- Independent
[home] -v- Florida State --- Independent
[home] -v- #2 Alabama --- SEC
[home] -v- Syracuse --- Independent
[away] -v- Florida --- SEC


The 1981 Miami Hurricanes Schedule was:

[home] -v- #17 Florida --- SEC
[home] -v- Houston --- SWC
[away] -v- #4 Texas --- SWC
[home] -v- Vanderbilt --- SEC
[away] -v- Mississippi St --- SEC
[away] -v- East Carolina --- Independent
[home] -v- #1 Penn State --- Independent
[away] -v- #14 Florida State --- Independent
[home] -v- Virginia Tech --- Independent
[away] -v- North Carolina --- ACC
[home] -v- Notre Dame --- Independent

Those opportunities simply no longer exist. Look at the sheer number of teams that were still independent in those days. Other than Notre Dame, every school above is either tied to a Conference Schedule, or no longer has a football program.

Being in a Group of 5 Conference leaves you with very limited chances of getting those big name teams on your schedule. And with the Power5 using the rhetoric of, "We need to Schedule Better" as a new Mantra; they are basically getting ready to close the door on the Group of 5.

No, these are not wacky thoughts by people who are wandering around, or blundering about with tinfoil on their heads. These are factual based realities.

The Big Money Schools have been cutting the smaller guys out for decades. The BCS was a perfect example of that.

BCS = Bowl Championship Series
Bowl Championship Series = Autobids to the most Exclusive Bowls for the Champions of the 6 Included Conferences

BCS Bowl Game payouts were more than triple what the smaller bowl games levied. And, other than a few exceptions, the BCS Conferences also took up the At Large Bids, which spread even more of the wealth back into the BCS protected programs.

Meanwhile; the smaller Bowl Venues, though many lucrative, maintained tie-ins with the BCS Conferences. And the smaller At Large bowl openings still got to invite schools from the BCS, as well as pick and choose from the Mid Majors.

It has all been very cut & dry.

The Major Conferences have in fact been doing everything they can to hold the smaller conference schools down. The only time we saw some reformation, is when Conference realignment took place. Then a couple of, what were, Mid Major programs, got annexed into the fold --- But even then it wasn't out of their continued progress, and program growth. It was to absorb the revenue from those programs Television Markets --- Otherwise, Boise State would have been invited to the party a long time ago.

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Re: The Media and what they see

Postby Spence » Sun Dec 15, 2019 1:34 pm

It is true that the majors control the party. That is why I don’t see a good reason to go to 8. If that is how it will be then they should cut loose the group of 5 and then the teams that are left would be forced to play each other.
"History doesn't always repeat itself but it often rhymes." - Mark Twain


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