An expanded field on the basketball side are similar to the FCS side of football. More teams doesn’t equal more competition. It is similar to the 1 or 2 tune up games at the beginning of the football season. Do you feel UT-Chattanooga is good competition for ‘Bama? It’s a payday for UTC and a scrimmage for ‘Bama.
Not necessarily stuck.
WVU could be 13-0 and still wouldn't crack the top 5. At least we'd have a good game with UCF....
No, but as I pointed out, there are two top 10 teams that are not FBS. Even if the expanded field only means 1 in 5 are competitive, that's still competition. You point to UTC, I point to Wichita State, Gonzaga, Xavier, Villanova, etc. I guess they aren't competitive either...
There’s about 95 basketball schools that fall under D-1 that do not have a football program. I guess Incarnate Word, NJIT, or Grand Canyon will make the tourney.
Ucf won the top "group of five" league, and was voted 12th. If you think a non "power five" team is eligible to "win" the football "championship" you have deeper issues than i thought...... the very reason we have been through the bowl coalition, bowl alliance, bsc and "playoff" is to insure that a non name team ever is voted Miss America again.
This exactly what King and Sleepy drove home back in the CBS days. We hung our hats on being the Big East Champs (co-champs most of the Times) and then going to a Bowl game and beating OU or hanging on to beat Georgia. Wanted our shot to be a big boy since we beat a Big 12 and SEC team. We got our big boy pants on now and currently reside in the middle of the pack. If Lyin’ Shane Lyons wants the needle to move, he is going to have to back up the Brinks truck and get a BIG name coach in or, we continue down the path we are heading until we can get the size and talent of players in here to really compete with the likes of an OU or Georgia.
I do....or that is what it says on paper...those teams need to beef up their OCC...UCF didn't even play all of their games this year....and BTW I could be mistaken but aren't you the one that said WV should have never gone to the Big12 they should have stayed the big fish in a small pond in the AAC...well my friend..this is what it buys you...but maybe WV should have stayed I think Wv fans like to sit around and talk about how the rest of the country "Disrespects" the program all of the time..
Some feel that all it takes is coaching up a 2 star kid to a 3 star and so on. It takes a bumper crop of talented players backfilled with coached up players on a consistent bases. That’s something we and other programs cannot do. We can’t seem to get all the right pieces on the field at the same time. We may have a good defense but our offense was weak. Peel back the next layer. We may have had a good running game, but QB was average or line was weak. There are numerous possibilities bore out over time.
