(02-24-2018 10:30 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(02-24-2018 09:54 PM)ark30inf Wrote:  

(02-24-2018 09:40 PM)ken d Wrote:  

(02-24-2018 07:41 PM)billybobby777 Wrote:  

(02-24-2018 06:58 PM)ken d Wrote:  Of course I am mocking. Who wouldn't mock a strategy to try to trick fans into thinking the G5 isn't something they have rejected for years? Such a premise is, in itself, a mockery. I never thought for a second this thread was meant to be taken seriously. Just like I didn't take your anti ESPN screed seriously.

"Pro ESPN"? That's a real knee slapper.

Me thinks you protest about the AAC too much. What are you getting so defensive about? Real college athletics (non semi pro 5) isn't hurting you.

Actually, I don't protest about the AAC at all. They are "real college athletics" just as much as the ACC and the Ivy League are. What I poke fun at are the delusional and paranoid fans who are unwilling to accept that the marketplace - not some evil villain - has slotted their schools at a level that is lower than they would like it to be.

And, frankly, the delusion and paranoia seems to be growing in some of those fans.

You are correct, the market put those school's in an advantageous position. The complaint is that they use those advantages to assure that those positions are not challenged and that the advantages remain permanent. For instance, barring anyone but the currently advantaged from having playoff access...because playoff access COULD catapult non-advantaged conferences into an advantaged position through their own success.

That is a monopoly using its monopoly power to suppress competition to maintain the monopoly.

Just because you earn advantages in the free market doesn't give you the right to rig that market with rules that keep competition from arising.

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Well, you know, Louisville, Rutgers, and TCU have all joined the club in the last 10 years, and when i was young, Miami and FSU were nothing.

The system has never provided more exposure for those in the G5 than it does now. 20+ years ago, Arkansas State would appear on national TV basically never, not just in a given year but any year. Now, it happens at least once a year if you make a bowl.

You just have to build your value. That's what USF is trying to do.

How about just making this sports league like any other damn sports league in the world and allow all of its conference champions access to the playoffs.

That's it. No extra money, no special deals, no invitations to the special club...just access to the playoffs for each conference like any other sports league where every yeam can make its own fame ON THE FIELD.

No polls, no beauty contests, no sportswriters, no computers...everyone can make it to the top...ON THE FIELD...like sports.

Jeez.

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