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Message: [QUOTE="UcMiami, post: 4433860, member: 199"] P5 conferences are not homogeneous within their conferences or across all five. What they do have is a lot more money devoted to their athletics program from football revenue, but even there, the money varies from conference to conference quite significantly. How those dollars get allocated varies, but in general the sports facilities are significantly better than average. Where real variation comes is in sports performance - some of the P5 football programs are pretty terrible and have been consistently terrible for quite a while. The schools with those programs would be hard pressed to get invited into a P5 if they hadn't already been grandfathered into the conference. The same wide range of performance exists for all of the other NCAA sports - some consistently dreadful some consistently great. The difference in the other sports is that they require less investment, generally less costly facilities and support staffs, and much smaller teams. That allows less well endowed conferences to more easily compete at the top end of the sports and being a P5 school means less. One issue that is concerning with NIL and free transfers is that P5 schools will find it easier to 'buy' great players from other conferences that emerge at those smaller schools during their first few seasons. [/QUOTE]