Unless there's a straight up salary cap, it won't matter. Especially when students start to get paid in the next few years, the gap is going to widen.
they aren't getting paid from the schools for coming to the school. and there are plenty of businesses in the areas of small schools that can and will also pay players for their NIL
But the big money is going to come from schools like Oregon, where kids are going to get Nike endorsements and shit; not bob's auto shop in las vegas for a UNLV player.
But are they going to want to spend that money on UNLV players? Or maybe the California players right next door? Do people give UNVL money now? I doubt they have huge boosters lining up for the opportunity.
Wouldn't matter. Alabama is still Alabama. Michigan is still Michigan. Ohio State still Ohio State. By putting them in conferences together you'd just guarantee OSU 6 wins a year, those teams get demolished and with no chance of ever getting out of the conference with even a conference title.
Yeah and not like old powers of Nebraska, Colorado, Minnesota, Miami Army haven't fallen by the way side.
Check out the recruiting classes though. Despite not being great, most of those schools are still in the top 25 and few of the G5 schools ever come close to the top 50.
And yet, top 10 recruiting class.
And you think that changes if these schools are playing and blowing out 6 mac schools a year?
We've had our chances the last two decades, been just short a few times. We've had a NC within the last 25 years. But if EMU were to be thrown into the conference, they'd never.
is that any differrent than
With all due respect, if you don't understand the difference between Vandy, UTjr, and MSU v. UAB, FAU, GaState you just don't follow college football and I've run out of time to continue the discussion. Pointing to a few specific games here and there where we played our worst football in the past 20 years means nothing, especially when you continue to go back the Richt era. Guess what, it isn't the Richt era any more. Also, I am obviously exaggerating when I continuously type 50-0 and 80-0 ... that's my way of saying we would destroy them, which we obviously would. At worst, we would go 9-1 against every one of the 7 G5 teams you insist should be in our imaginary conference.
It has somewhat as your stats show. But the biggest benefit has been the money that comes with being a P5 member. Some of the lesser P5 schools aren't getting the "bang for their buck" IMO. They are spending A LOT more than some of the upper G5s and still aren't getting much better results if any at all.
