Group of Five football playoff idea is not going away despite myriad obstacles (Dodd)

[huskymedic]

Original thread: Group of 5 playoff?

 

[sportsart]

I like where it showed the 8 team playoff for the G5 if it happened in 2016.

AAC has 4 out of the 8 teams.

AAC will stay with the P6, but thanks for asking.

 

[Jimdish255]

I like where it showed the 8 team playoff for the G5 if it happened in 2016.

AAC has 4 out of the 8 teams.

AAC will stay with the P6, but thanks for asking.

If 4 teams generated 20m each and kept most of it then hmmmm. But there would be pressure not to send 4 from 1 conference. Still further marginalizes AAC pernanently but there are positive trade offs as well. Not necessarily buying the $160m figure though.

 

[brasssbonanzaa]

no no no no no no no no no no no no no no

 

[SubbaBub]

NO

 

[noeynox]

It sounds like one guy at a school with 28 million dollar athletic budget beating a dead horse. For less than 3 million a year he is asking all of the G5 schools to relegate THEMSELVES.

That sounds like the P5's wet dream to me.

 

[Jax Husky]

If this goes through, it just gives more ammo for the P5 to further exclude the rest from their postseason opportunities. This could banish the G5 forever. And, I don't believe that $160 million number for a second.

 

[metsfan2323]

This idea reminds me of the story where the witch tried to trick Hansel and Gretel into the oven.

 

[huskymedic]

 

[BlueDogs]

8 team NCAA playoff with one AAC seat is the only minimum answer to this mess. They know they can't move to 8 without opening Pandora's box, so the P5 will milk the current system until the separation becomes so big, there is no return.

 

[uconnbill]

Again another big thank you to ESPN and BC for keeping UConn out of the power conference.

 

[Hoophound]

I have no idea exactly how they'd go about it but the AAC should be able to make a big enough stink in court to get a seat at the table. That stink would force some sort of expansion of major conferences and merging of the AAC and Mountain West. My concern is that this will be another instance, like B12 expansion, where the schools with the most to lose, vote as told to by the bigger schools and in do doing so commit suicide. For whatever reason, conference realignment has caused one school after another to back down on common sense issues. What is in it for the people promoting this G5 championship? Something doesn't smell right.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Hell No. This would only be possible if there was a new division between FBS and whatever the G5 would be, something a school like UConn could never support. If they expanded the P5 to add 6-8 teams with the budget to compete, maybe it would be feasible.

 

[huskymedic]

Navy Athletics‏ @NavyAthletics 3h 3 hours ago
Niumatalolo: I have no idea who came up with the Group of 5 playoff idea, but #NavyFootball is not interested in anything like that.

Navy's Ken Niumatalolo 'not into' idea of separate playoff for Group of Five teams

 

[NE Football]

It's better than the boring minor bowl circuit. It's likely that a lot of the minor bowls will be bankrupt in the next few years, thus the G5 playoff talk.

 

[Redding Husky]

If this happens, we might as well put "Division 2" on all of our signs and letterheads.

 

[NE Football]

That's pretty much done at this point with Group of 5 versus Power 5.