Key tweets, and it's all gone to Hell.

[HuskyHawk]

There are pros and cons to both sides of the argument. From a business side of things an AD could view a G5 Playoff as a means for their financially strapped athletic department to generate more revenue. They know that ESPN would broadcast it and people would watch it.

At this point in time there are only a small number of G5 Programs that are set up long term to compete for the access bowl bid on a yearly basis. These schools have resources and use them. Schools like Boise, BYU, Houston, Uconn, and Cincy have the infrastructure to sustain success. However if you are Bowling Green, North Texas, or Utah State you need a once in a lifetime season where everything goes your way in order to have any shot. To these schools the guaranteed income of a playoff might be very attractive.

Being realistic the gulf between an Ohio and Ohio State or Troy and Alabama is so vast it is like they are competing in a different classification already. JMO but the gap in resources is far greater between the top and bottom of FBS than between the top of FCS and the bottom of the G5. That is why we see movement on that borderline. Some realize its hopeless to compete and move down, others try to elevate their programs. Ultimately I think we see the top G5 Programs move into the P5 either as additions to existing conferences or as an entirely new one. The less solvent G5 Schools will absorb the top FCS conferences in a new classification and compete for this G5 Playoff.

Here's the reality. Could this be positive? Yes, but you'd have to do it this way. To be P5 you need a stadium seating X. You must fund full max scholarships. You must hire a certain number of coaches on staff.

Then, see who wants in and qualifies. And anyone who qualifies is in. That's how FBS works now. You want to make a new higher level, fine, but it has to function on the same basis and be open to any school that qualifies.

 

[whaler11]

Here's the reality. Could this be positive? Yes, but you'd have to do it this way. To be P5 you need a stadium seating X. You must fund full max scholarships. You must hire a certain number of coaches on staff.

Then, see who wants in and qualifies. And anyone who qualifies is in. That's how FBS works now. You want to make a new higher level, fine, but it has to function on the same basis and be open to any school that qualifies.

No it doesn't. They can do whatever they want.

 

[Ldandy]

Either way he hates Notre Dame?

You got this part right.

 

[ZOOCONN]

i havent checked this board in monthsssssss haha i honestly expected it to be a ghost town that was abandoned after the BIG12 expansion died

 

[HuskyHawk]

i havent checked this board in monthsssssss haha i honestly expected it to be a ghost town that was abandoned after the BIG12 expansion died

It is. These guys are just a bunch of sad wraiths who have died and are haunting the place.

 

[Husky25]

It is. These guys are just a bunch of sad wraiths who have died and are haunting the place.

 

[Seaa Blue]

Shh... Fishy will hear us.

 

[Ldandy]

Anybody see my car anywhere? I can't remember where the hell I parked it. Its a gray Dodge. It will be the only one being struck by lightning.

 

[huskymedic]

Big 12 discussed scheduling alliance with Pac-12 during recent expansion talks

 

[Seaa Blue]

Wonder where they got that idea from...

 

[jostar1]

David Benedict‏@UConnHuskyAD 1h1 hour ago
Temple vs @UConnWBB drew largest audience ever on @SNYtv in NY DMA surpassed knicks/nets and 7 other live college games @UConnHuskies

 

[Adios]

Even the Knicks vs Nets? Dayum.

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

David Benedict‏@UConnHuskyAD 1h1 hour ago
Temple vs @UConnWBB drew largest audience ever on @SNYtv in NY DMA surpassed knicks/nets and 7 other live college games @UConnHuskies

Who knew Temple WBB had such an NY presence?

 

[jostar1]

Even the Knicks vs Nets? Dayum.

Maybe not. Looks like he changed it:

David Benedict‏@UConnHuskyAD 3m3 minutes ago
Temple vs @UConnWBB drew largest audience ever on @SNYtv in NY DMA surpassed 7 other live college games @UConnHuskies

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

They would have to have a top OOC schedule and beat at least 2 teams ranked in Top 10. They would also need the AAC teams they beat to knock off some good OOC teams as well.
Houston this season would have been a good example.

Agreed. If Houston ran the table this year with OOC wins over OU and Louisville plus Temple, Navy, Memphis, and Tulsa for good measure you can't keep them out really. Not to mention they had to be highly ranked to start the year. Unfortunately they didn't pull it off. It's quite the perfect storm of record, schedule, hype that another team may not get a crack at.

 

[billybud]

SEC reports distributing over half a billion dollars in 2015-16....

SEC distributes $584.2 million among schools in 2015-16

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

Right back at you, Chief.

Chief is a pegorative term around here.

 

[Husky25]

Chief is a pegorative term around here.

Maybe I meant it that way?

I didn't. I think @Ldandy offers at least something (...Chief does too in his own way, I suppose), but serves him write fro using a Jaguars GIF?

 

[jostar1]

According to the Hartford Courant story, the ratings DID surpass the Knicks-Nets game:

"According to SNY, the game in Philadelphia drew a larger household rating in the New York market than the Knicks-Nets game on YES. It also drew a higher rating in the market than an NHL doubleheader on NBCSN and seven other college basketball games on ESPN2, ESPNU and FS1."

UConn Women Ratings Bonanza For SNY; Huskies Surpass Knicks-Nets On YES

 

[junglehusky]

Adding Wichita or another school would create an even balance of 12 teams. Schools such as Wichita, Dayton and VCU would definitely improve the American’s basketball profile, but other than Wichita, which may have football (and American membership) on its wish list, it is difficult to see why schools such as Dayton or VCU would leave the Atlantic 10, which has had an equal or better ranking than the American the past few years.

...

But UConn officials also made it clear that they would like to help the American develop in basketball as well as football and the idea of adding a school such as Wichita is receiving support from several conference schools.

Where it goes from here, remains unclear, but the topic of expansion seems likely to continue.

 

[billybud]

"Expansion for Power 5 is on the back burner w/ a very low flame." former #SEC Commish Mike Slive @991TheGame Smashmouth Radio

Tweeted by Scott Griffin...Smashmouth Radio this morning....radio interview with Slive...

 

[junglehusky]

Responding to the Blauds story...

A year ago, Wichita State announced that consultants would evaluate the athletic department’s options for leaving the Missouri Valley Conference and adding sports, most prominently football. The football piece of that study appears to have faded from discussion.

Wichita State president John Bardo declined comment Thursday. Any move made by WSU, athletic director Darron Boatright has said, would include all sports.

People in the WSU athletic department decline to speak publicly regarding the issue, citing the sensitivity of the matter or their unfamiliarity with the process and the administration’s movements toward that goal.

Yet the possibility of leaving of MVC is taken seriously by multiple sources in the department, some of whom believe it to be a likely outcome. Others are much less certain. All say leaving the MVC for the American is the desired goal of the university and some have gone as far as to calculate travel expenses in a conference that stretches to Connecticut and Florida.

Other concerns expressed by athletic department personnel include the stability of the American and the competition level among individual sports.


Read more here: Report: ‘Upper levels’ of American Athletic Conference looking at Wichita State’s potential

 

[huskymedic]

Brian Brubaker‏ @RoyalShock 2h 2 hours ago
AAC leader rules out ‘multiple’ additions, which may or may not mean Wichita State


>>The hosts asked him to address reports that Wichita State, Dayton and VCU are possible additions to the American’s 11-school basketball roster.

“I don’t know where that stuff started,” Aresco said. “We would always look to improve our basketball, but we are not under any circumstances going back to the old Big East model of multiple basketball schools. Just not happening.”<<

>>“We have 11 basketball members,” Aresco said. “I’m not certain what we’ll do in the future. We’re always evaluating our basketball to see if we can make it stronger. Right now, there is nothing going on.”

Later in the interview, Aresco said that the American is not looking to expand with a football school.

“We’re happy at 12,” he said. “On the basketball side … we always explore whether we can strengthen ourselves. Until something is actually happening or would happen, I’m not going to comment.”<<

 

[Adios]

Might as well add URI.

 

[shizzle787]

Referring to Wichita.