PIBuckeye
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This might be the beginning of the end of all the big schools having 2-3 cream puffs on their schedule every year.
I don’t follow soccer, so I don’t completely understand relegation. How would it work if college FB were to adopt it?We definitely could use another division/level. There's about 40 teams could be in the top tier, then about 70 or so in the next level, then the FCS/D-1-A teams. There are pronounced differences in each one of those groupings. Sure, there are exceptional teams from the lower divisions that can beat the big dogs on occasion, but overall we know there are only about 20-30 teams each year with a lujjit shot at a title.
Go ahead and put those big dos in their own league with an expanded playoff, and the second tier guys can still be the ones that go to the old bowl games
Basically you need conferences to usurp the NCAA.I don’t follow soccer, so I don’t completely understand relegation. How would it work if college FB were to adopt it?
40 teams in the top division, bottom 5 get relegated each year? How are the bottom 5 determined? WL record? Polls?
Would relegation even work when most schedules are determines YEARS in advance?
In the British Football Association, usually it's the top three and bottom three teams, based on record, that go up or down. (There's some exceptions, like League 1, where 3 go up to the next level and 4 go down a level.)I don’t follow soccer, so I don’t completely understand relegation. How would it work if college FB were to adopt it?
40 teams in the top division, bottom 5 get relegated each year? How are the bottom 5 determined? WL record? Polls?
Would relegation even work when most schedules are determines YEARS in advance?
I would love to see relegation tried SOMEWHERE here in the states. I just don’t think it is feasible when you take the franchise costs and contract AAVs into account. No BIG sports league can make it work, I don’t think.In the British Football Association, usually it's the top three and bottom three teams, based on record, that go up or down. (There's some exceptions, like League 1, where 3 go up to the next level and 4 go down a level.)
I don't think it works as well with CFB. Schedules are made so many years in advance, as opposed to soccer leagues where every team plays every other team, home and away, for that season. And the distances in european countries are much smaller, and there's less equipment to drag halfway across the country.
I don't think that's quite true. What's more likely is if you're not in the top 40/50 revenue generators, you're basically a mid-major. NCAA gets yeeted in the process.This might be the beginning of the end of all the big schools having 2-3 cream puffs on their schedule every year.
Nah, Beavers are fucked, imo.Well we might as well take the ducks and beavers too.
I agree. Likely Stanford and Oregon.Nah, Beavers are fucked, imo.
Yeah. Oregon, Washington + another PAC-12 school + someone else seems most likely, imo. Stanford seems possible.I agree. Likely Stanford and Oregon.
I kinda doubt it. Their survival as a program isn't threatened yet. They'll be the very last domino to fall before the NCAA is done.So, does all this current re-shuffling finally make ND stop being asshats and join the Big 10?
Maybe one more push for Notre Dame.Yeah. Oregon, Washington + another PAC-12 school + someone else seems most likely, imo. Stanford seems possible.
Give us the Huskies and the Ducks. that will complete the cream of the crop of the the pac 12............ sec can scavenge for the rest.Yeah. Oregon, Washington + another PAC-12 school + someone else seems most likely, imo. Stanford seems possible.
Probably, not sure they can get that whale this go around. I think that's the wave of expansion after this one, imo. Few years out from that.Maybe one more push for Notre Dame.
BIG 12 (they still have rights to Big 16, right?) probably picks up whatever is available between the Arizona schools, Utah, and Colorado I'd wager.Give us the Huskies and the Ducks. that will complete the cream of the crop of the the pac 12............ sec can scavenge for the rest.
It'll be tough. But maybe offering them a full member share immediately would help.Probably, not sure they can get that whale this go around. I think that's the wave of expansion after this one, imo. Few years out from that.
Idk, it's a stubbornness thing and an unwillingness to share. Again, ND is never joining a conference unless their survival as a football program is threatened. That's gonna take more expansion from the BIG/SEC to happen. NCAA itself would need to be directly threatened. Not there... YET.It'll be tough. But maybe offering them a full member share immediately would help.