CJH9972
Rivals' DTP2
Leaving wouldn't look any different for the P5 teams. The G5 teams however will become the new FCS. And everything I said wasn't about money, other than addressing that you claimed it was.
But I'm not sure you really understand where college football money comes from. And the part I bolded clearly shows you don't understand where the money that is made goes, or how the people in charge have their salaries decided/by who.
Futhermore, I don't think you know what the NCAA is if you think the "school's have no choice in the matter". You seem to have it backwards. The NCAA does what the schools want, not the other way around. And if the P5 schools decide they don't want the NCAA involved with the sport, they can just ignore them. The NCAA isn't involved with the deciding of the national championship in FBS and never has been that I know of. They aren't involved with the contracts in football either, like you see in basketball.
It's not a forced system legally or anything, and the threat of P5 breaking off is not just imaginary scenario on a message board, it's something they've been pretty much using to get more control over themselves and no subject to the rules the smaller schools decide just a few years ago.
Money dictates everything. It matters not to me what P5 leagues do with the money. The bottom line is that my idea of a fair competition format will never happen because P5 leagues know it is not good for their business. Whether or not the threat to leave is real or a bluff, they need G5 teams in order to play 7-8 home games but they can only accomplish that by enforcing a two class system within FBS. If they break away and only play among themselves, they lose the extra home games which also means less games to sell to TV