I knew the panic button had been hit too early

[Carolina_Bull]

Here is a gem from the Texas AD explaining on how they feel about the none P5.

 

Quote in the New York Times.

...Steve Patterson, the men’s athletic director at the University of Texas, was more ruthless in describing the Big 5’s decision to break from the group. The programs outside the Big 5 aren’t pulling their weight, he said.

“We are the ones making the money and carrying the liability,†Patterson said. “The others don’t make any money. Nobody wants to watch them on TV. I don’t accept the argument that you have to have total socialism."

He said if the Division I universities on the outside looking in want to make it to the level of the Big 5, they would have to invest more in their sports programs. Or, he offered, they could simply step aside.

“They could be the University of Chicago,†he said. “And hey, a lot of parents want to send their kids there.â€

The problem there, if you happen to have a child who wants to play top-level college sports, is that the University of Chicago is Division III. It dropped big-time football in 1939, troubled by the sport’s corrupting influence on academics. 

The scary thing is that Patterson was really hinting at what could be the future: The Big 5 will rule college sports. Other programs, unable to keep up, would face the choice of dropping down a division or eradicating nonrevenue sports to go all in on football and basketball....

 

I grew up in Texas.  Stuff like this reminds me how smug Texans are.  Look at what the AD says about U. of Chicago, "And hey, a lot of parents want to send their kids there."  He speaks as if U. of Chicago is a barber college and not one of the top colleges in the country.

[Bear]

As much as I hope college athletics ends (entirely)... or be spawned off as a separate tax-able business...

 

I want USF to success atheltically, that is only way to remain relevant. Schools that do not perform in the G5 will be a race to the bottom...

 

There will be much more financial compettition amongst the P5 however, and eventually, maybe it will move towards a P4. Unless moves are made..

[charsibb]

 

I DONT SEE  how you can justify keeping a  football program where the coach is getting paid money than the school president and you are in lower tier competing for  nothing

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usf will go the way of ut football 

 

we are in a football crazy state

Hah! For this to happen, we need UT-level donors. They have lots, and we have blowhards over on the left coast that talk a mean game but fail to donate even a nickel.

 

 

Not sure if srs...

 

You do realize he was referring to the Spartans, not the Longhorns?

[Bear]

 

 

I DONT SEE  how you can justify keeping a  football program where the coach is getting paid money than the school president and you are in lower tier competing for  nothing

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usf will go the way of ut football 

 

we are in a football crazy state

Hah! For this to happen, we need UT-level donors. They have lots, and we have blowhards over on the left coast that talk a mean game but fail to donate even a nickel.

 

 

Not sure if srs...

 

You do realize he was referring to the Spartans, not the Longhorns?

 

 

The actual: UT.EDU!

[Paisa el Toro]

 

 

I DONT SEE  how you can justify keeping a  football program where the coach is getting paid money than the school president and you are in lower tier competing for  nothing

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usf will go the way of ut football 

 

we are in a football crazy state

Hah! For this to happen, we need UT-level donors. They have lots, and we have blowhards over on the left coast that talk a mean game but fail to donate even a nickel.

 

 

Not sure if srs...

 

You do realize he was referring to the Spartans, not the Longhorns?

 

I see that now. The rest of the stuff about blowhards on the left coast, however, still stands.

[WWMJD]

Greed will end up destroying the Power 5.  I don't see how you plan on making more money when you're likely losing millions of viewers by casting aside the G5 and their fans.  I, like many other in this thread have posted, will more or less give the big middle finger to the Power 5 and go back to watching more NFL.  I'll follow USF's games, but thats about it.  Seems like many other fans of the G5 will end up doing the same.  While they may laugh at the viewership of those schools, all of us combined equal millions of fans who may be tuning out completely.  

 

Also, see how interested and vested fans of schools like Indiana, Wake Forest, Duke, Kansas, BC, Pitt, etc... stay in college football when their schools become perennial  2-10 teams and go a decade without playing in bowl games since they won't be able to pad their win totals against mid-majors (assuming their whole schedule only other P5 teams goes ahead).  

 

The reality is, there's really a "power 20-30" that rules college football.  You're not getting more inventory out of them no matter what.  Even those who still tune it, aren't going to be excited about watching Indiana v Purdue, or Pitt vs Duke, or Kansas v Iowa St or any combo of OOC P5 matchups of teams like this. You're inventory hasn't really changed, and you've eliminated fans/viewers.  So how is that suppose to work out for more money? 

 

Better stated way of saying what I attempted to earlier in the thread.

 

First they rendered non-BCS schools irrelevant, and nobody in power complained because they weren't non-BCS schools.

Now they are rendering non-P5 schools irrelevant, and nobody in power is complaining because they aren't non-P5 schools.

Next they will render all but the 20-30 to which you refer irrelevant, and there will be nobody to band together with the Purdues of the world because they stood by and let this happen.

 

Feel like I've read this somewhere before... 

(Implicit Godwin's law FTW!)

 

But yeah, beginning of a slow decline for CFB.