(02-12-2014 01:58 PM)C Marlow Wrote:  There is a lot of hoping, wishing and praying by a few fans within this thread that GOR's can be easily ripped apart. Unfortunately, this will not be the case as indicated by a number of posters in this thread and a few other threads.

Do people really wonder why "lesser P5 schools" like Indiana, Purdue, Wake, Miss St, Iowa St, etc. are in P5 conferences while other "more worthy schools" like USF, UCF, UCONN, Cincy, etc are not? It's really, really simple. Schools like OSU, Michigan, Texas, Alabama, etc. WANT TO ASSOCIATE WITH their current conference mates. Not only that, but almost every P5 school is HAPPY where they are right now!!! Supposedly GT, UVA and UNC were offered invites to join the B1G. Those schools said "no thanks", and then elected to sign a GOR and remain a part of the ACC... AFTER TELLING THE B1G NO THANK YOU.

As of today, the majority of the P5 conference schools do not want to rub elbows with Cincy, UCONN, USF, etc. These are voluntary associations. It's not like the B1G was sitting there all happy and content many years ago and some powerful, unstoppable entity FORCED them to take Indiana, Purdue, Illinois on as member schools or else... There are no conspiracies to keep schools down or to ruin schools out of fear of competition or anything like that. The bottom line is that schools are associating together in the different conferences because they WANT to be together.

Another Pitt fan trying to make a dig at UCONN, UC, and USF...

The reason why the P5s associate with those schools is because they've been in a conference with them for so long and no one is going to kick out a long existing P5 school. If all conference affiliations were wiped away, and the P5 were told to rebuild them based on who they really want, there would be changes (both between the P5 conferences and between the bottom tier P5 and top tier G5).

And let's face the facts: The only reason why Pitt is currently in a P5 is because UCONN pissed off too many schools, making Pitt the less controversial choice...but you can keep pretending it was your amazing college sports market and unrivaled athletic department that got you in.