Perfect article about the P5 Cartel

[Apis Bull]

Interesting paragraph with something I didn't know:

The ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12, and SEC are called the Power 5, and that’s fitting. They have the power on the committee, with a rule that one sitting athletic director from each league must be included in the selection process. They have all the power when it comes to scheduling, and little incentive to set up games against quality non-power-conference programs looking for marquee wins. They have the power to draw viewers, and the financial power that comes with it allows them to mold the very nature of the sport. Hell, they had the power to create the playoff in the first place

https://www.theringer.com/2017/12/1/16723918/ucf-knights-college-football-playoff-group-five.

[bowman1]

I would love to see the AAC, MWC, CUSA and the other smaller conferences raise an anti-trust suit against the CFP committee 

[NewEnglandBull]

Just now, bowman1 said:

I would love to see the AAC, MWC, CUSA and the other smaller conferences raise an anti-trust suit against the CFP committee 

Problem: all of those conferences voted on the current set up. But, if the focus is on voting collusion by the committee maybe...but how do you prove that? 

[bowman1]

1 hour ago, NewEnglandBull said:

Problem: all of those conferences voted on the current set up. But, if the focus is on voting collusion by the committee maybe...but how do you prove that? 

Duress - yes, the other conferences agreed to the current setup, but did they really have a choice?

[NewEnglandBull]

2 minutes ago, bowman1 said:

Duress - yes, the other conferences agreed to the current setup, but did they really have a choice?

Fair point. But here is one other potential problem. If USF or any other G5 team is a part of this law suite how will it impact their future opportunity to get into the P5?

[bullsfan27]

I don’t see a lawsuit helping but the g5 can get together and agree to no longer schedule any p5 school unless the g5 is given a guaranteed path to the playoff. This would impact them greater as they won’t get their cupcake and would have to play each other which after a few seasons of getting banged up, they will get tired of going 8-4 or 7-5 and want the g5 schools back on their schedules.

[bowman1]

31 minutes ago, NewEnglandBull said:

Fair point. But here is one other potential problem. If USF or any other G5 team is a part of this law suite how will it impact their future opportunity to get into the P5?

Well . . . In the odd chance that a G5 team does get an invite, that school (hopefully USF) would similarly claim duress, stating that it's conference mates forced them to join the suit and that they never really supported it in the first place😁

[TakeItOrLeavitt]

If these top P5 teams keep refusing to play teams from our conference then we need to be working on securing as many 1&1s with the top tier programs from other G5 conferences as possible. Boise, SDSU, Troy, N. Illinois, Toledo, Western Kentucky, Marshall, BYU, Appalachian State, and Arkansas State. Teams that even in their down years are still good for 7-8 wins. Eliminate the FCS games. In the instances where we schedule 2 for 1s with the likes of Texas we need to make up that extra home game with the best bang for our buck. Cheap payday game vs a middle of the road Sun Belt or C-USA teams. Harlan needs to find creative ways to improve our S.O.S.

[gibbsak]

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When given the chance, teams from non–power conferences have routinely pulled their weight in showcase bowl games.

All about the money....

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But people—specifically, people with a vested financial interest in downplaying the abilities of non-power-conference teams—can now keep teams like UCF down and way out.

 

[NCBull]

Our own TBP website had an interesting take on this last night on late night Twitter.  Not exactly sure what to make of it.  This was in reply to a tweet from AAC fanboy media guy C Austin Cox saying UCiF deserves to be in (and would win) the Playoffs.

Et tu, TBP?  Why the shade for the AAC?  Kinda seems like crapping where we eat.