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Message: [QUOTE="itgoeslike, post: 1001876, member: 3691"] [USER=4584]@Ldandy[/USER]: Someone's been drinking the Kool-Aid. 1. More student athletes would benefit if the Playoff proceeds were divided among the 120 or so FBS teams. All the benefits you stipulated could be mandated by the FBS division and funded with the Playoff revenue. All of sudden we've doubled the number of students athletes that would be covered the full cost off attendance, insurance, etc. But, that's not what's happening, and it's by design. 2. The P5 are anything but free market. They simultaneously operate as a non-profit entity or as a for-profit entity, depending upon the advantage derived from each state, while partaking in exclusionary activity that would never be allowed in the business world. If anyone's receiving welfare, it's some of the schools that have been grandfathered in by association. For them, performance and budgets are irrelevant. The remaining FBS schools are the ones earning coin the old fashioned way. Part of me hopes this blows up into a pay-for-play free for all. Then we'll see if some of the so-called P5 will sink or swim. 3. Less parity is not an accident. In fact, the P5 is actively pursuing less parity. If a school like BYU or UCF is competing at higher level than some of the P5, why are those P5 members getting preferential payments? By putting schools within certain conferences in a position to offer benefits beyond others schools, they can consolidate talent. It's not an accident. It's by design. It is what it is, but let's not sugarcoat it. The construct of this whole system appears to be going over your head. Based upon the metrics being employed and the committee makeup, a G5 team will [I]Never[/I] be selected for the playoffs. With P5 conferences shutting out BYU (or any other G5 team), they will never have an RPI or visibility that will enable them to make it into the top 4. [I]Never[/I]. I'm sure at one point there was a movement to improve the welfare of student athletes. But it's been co-opted by old fashioned greed and will be milked for all it's worth. [/QUOTE]

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