In my opinion, the NCAA has mostly failed FCS and that's one reason you won't see a repeat of 1982 when so many schools shrugged their shoulders and said, "Eh it's not such a bad deal" and went down without a fight.

FCS has been billed as cost-containment football but schools looking to be competitive in FCS are paying salaries similar to the MAC and low-end of the Sun Belt and CUSA.

The scholarship saving isn't that big either, in the $300,000 to $600,000 range depending on the school.

When FCS was created, it provided more post-season opportunities than you could have had in the MAC or Big West at the time, now there are more post-season opportunities in FBS.

The NCAA membership rejected a proposal to split then I-AA into I-AA and I-AAA with I-AAA being non-scholarship football and the fight against it was led primarily by I-AA for fear that even more schools would adopt non-scholarship football.

They still offer all the things you all claim to want. Even if they need money.

(06-13-2014 03:49 PM)cleburneslim Wrote:  They still offer all the things you all claim to want. Even if they need money.

Somebody is paying for all this, so are you sucking on the public tax payers tits for free?

(06-13-2014 03:49 PM)cleburneslim Wrote:  They still offer all the things you all claim to want. Even if they need money.

Right, but they're spending more money to get to a certain level so that they can get a little more money to help, among other things, sustain this practice. I think it's great if you go to a school that offers free admission, but I know at some point, it might be unsustainable, if not already.