He’s trying to accomplish an NFL-like even playing field.
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Should conferences get rid of divisions in football?
- Thread starter Buffnik
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Thanks.
Personally, one of the things I love about college sports is that success is rewarded instead of penalized. If you have more success, you get better players, better coaches, and make more money.
I thought he hated the NFL.
Agreed to an extent, but a lot of people are tired of seeing the same handful of teams having a legitimate CFP opportunity each year, particularly when it’s not even close to an even playing field.
I think today’s landscape and big money have made the competitive balance even more lopsided and very unlikely for middling teams to ever catch up.
Quads, not pods. We're not going to quins.
That's one of the reasons I love college football too, because programs are free to put into it as much as they can afford and choose to spend, and there's not any of this fabricated parity you see in the NFL. You want to spend upwards of $2 million on your recruiting budget? Build massive football facilities with all the the bells and whistles? Hire numerous nutrition and traning specialists? Have at it. Yet at the same time none of this guarantees national titles, conference titles, or even wins against your biggest rivals. The disparity of programs across the landscape is what makes the game so intriguing and interesting.
Eh, that’s nice in theory, but we all know that’s not how it actually works. Not every program can choose to put all that money into facilities, recruiting, staff salaries, etc. Each team plays by different rules that are mostly about location and which ones have the most big money donors, and each conference plays by different rules because there’s no real central governing body, the NCAA inexplicably allows the big boys to get away with violations while middling and smaller programs get the hammer dropped on them.
What do you consider to be middling programs? Someone like say Iowa State, NC State, Minnesota? Not to pick on those programs, but when have schools like these ever been in the conversation for being among the nation's elite, let alone in the national title discussion? So I don't see how things are much different now. Sure, Clemson and Bama are on top now but 15 years ago USC was dominating. Florida was dominant in the late 2000's. These things are all cyclical.
But let's take CU as an example - let's be honest we've been one of the worst P5 programs over the last decade plus, yet 3 years ago we were a CCG win and some help in a couple other games around the country from making the playoff.
But all that multiplies and at one point and certain teams have such a ridiculously high floor that exceeds the ceiling of all but a selected few and it becomes a bit of a closed shop.
Trust me, I've seen this play out elsewhere.
@CarolinaBuff I have nothing meaningful to add to this conversation but now that there have been a bunch of practice photos out, isn't it time you updated your avi to be Tucker in CU gear?