[LUOrange]

There's already some scuttle on Twitter & You Tube of a "best of the rest" G5 conference with the scholarships, etc. Hopefully, we'd be a part of that if something like that develops, and you have schools and conferences not wanting to go up in scholarships. As it increases scholarships for volleyball, MBB & WBB, and baseball & softball as well. A best of the rest G5 could make it a Middle 3 instead of a M2 if the B1G & SEC do in fact break away. It'd also be a bad blow for a 1AA/FCS rebirth, if the G5 has a hodge-podge of scholarship numbered conferences like the FCS has now. All that does is confirm your inferiority to the P4.

[cruzan_flame13]

Totally agree with the last statement. To expect to be undefeated is an insanely high bar. Many fans, and even ASOR articles are looking at game by game analysis and essentially making predictions based one who should win each game. The reality is each game is a percentage chance to win. If a team has a 51% chance to win each game, it’s very unlikely they will go undefeated even if they are favored in every game. The mathematical expectation should be 6 or 7 in reality.

FPI has us around 9 wins for that reason. That’s probably the line where the season is a good one vs bad one. Of course we’d all love another undefeated run.

If we had a shot to join the AAC I’d jump at the chance because it would give us a margin of error in having a loss or maybe even two. Thinking we have a shot at the ACC is kind of far fetched in my opinion even with a major collapse.

I just can’t help but think an SDSU,USF,Memphis ( types ) are going to go along with a G5 Conference Mandate of fewer scholarships and not paying $22 million annually and voluntarily be relegated back to FCS ( which is what it will be if P4 gets 105 scholarships and G5 stays at 85. I could see 8-10 G5 breaking out and paying the $ vs dropping down. I don’t see any G5 conference with majority of team (votes) having enough $ to elect to go to that model, even if they want to. I also don’t see any G5 Conference allowing individual schools to choose one or the other - giving a huge advantage to the “haves” over “have nots” within conference. Will be interesting and probably the number 1 item on each Conference Commissioners list right now - decisions have to be made quickly on this.

I think you'd be interested in this video:

The guy did well observing the former additions to power autonomy schools from the past 15 years. I think the best statement for the next realignment shift for upper G5's is the "What have you done for me lately" aspect. The schools that you've mentioned are above making moves that would suggests that they are not trying to get involve with mandates with schools that they believe they are better than in the categories mentioned in the video. Honestly LU is quite similar to these schools, but our main issue is our academic rankings from the U.S. News and World Report (can't believe this is a legitimate reference). LU would have to "step step on the gas" with academic funding/research for the next 5 years and maintain that pace afterwards. If the top G5's want to separate themselves from the gap (which will continue to grow and never return to normalcy) , they will have to what's necessary to boost their programs.

[LUOrange]

The Irish finally to the B1G?

https://x.com/GSwaim/status/1819526957375049784

[LUOrange]

So the Super League break off talk is back:

GREG SWAIM SHOW
@GSwaim
What if I told you that there will someday soon be a 32 team College Football "Super League" that will be funded by private equity (similar to LIVV Golf), and that I already know who most of the 32 teams are, and where they're ranked by this group? And NO, I'm absolutely not kidding!! #CFB

At this point, I just want this 32-40 team super league to happen. That way the G5 and the lower third of the P5 can reorganize appropriately according to region, budget & like-mindedness as much as practical. But IMO, once they break away, they should be gone completely in all sports as well. That way you'd have the NFL, minor leagues, the Super Leagues, and the closest thing to amateur college athletics as we can get.

[Kricket]

Doesn’t this guy just keep making prediction after prediction with barely any accuracy?

[JK37]

Doesn’t this guy just keep making prediction after prediction with barely any accuracy?

So you’re saying he’s Ballcoach?

[thepostman]

Ballcoach with a small social media following!

[ballcoach15]

I remember when the "arms race" in college football consisted of some schools putting couches, pool tables and foosball tables in locker rooms, in order to attract recruits. Now schools are buying players.

[JK37]

Players have always been bought. It’s the currency and the price that’s changed.

[ballcoach15]

That is true for "certain" schools. The states of Ohio and Tennessee come to mid.

[thepostman]

And Alabama...

[Sly Fox]

The conversation about buying players in football has always started with the State of Alabama and its primary two institutions. In hoops, it has traditionally always been focused on Kentucky and Tobacco Road.

No that the money is almost exclusively being shared above the table it has brought some of those programs who were the worst offenders back to the pack. That is not coincidental.

[Kricket]

Doesn’t this guy just keep making prediction after prediction with barely any accuracy?

So you’re saying he’s Ballcoach?

lol, sort of. I think the difference is that people don’t go quoting ballcoach as a source of what is to come.

I don’t follow that guy at all on social, but he’s been posted on here enough times that I know he’s full of it.

Now that I think about it, ballcoach may be pretty successful on twitter/x if he gave it his full effort.

[JK37]

The conversation about buying players in football has always started with the State of Alabama and its primary two institutions. In hoops, it has traditionally always been focused on Kentucky and Tobacco Road.

No that the money is almost exclusively being shared above the table it has brought some of those programs who were the worst offenders back to the pack. That is not coincidental.

You hypocrite. Austin has deeper pockets than them all.

[Ill flame]

Speaking of deep pockets. The data for 2023 is out and LU recently passed SMU, Tulane, mizzou and Nebraska in endowment size with $2.27 billion. I'm only counting 21 FBS public schools ahead of us and we should pass Florida and Kansas next year. Among G5s only Rice has more money and as we know they aren't using it on athletics.

[Sly Fox]

In Austin, they have always tried to maintain a modicum of propriety up until this point. Now that they have joined the $EC and payments are above the table, it is totally on.

[ballcoach15]

The mess that the NCAA is in now, was caused mainly by 3 schools: Ohio State, Oklahoma and Texas.

[JK37]

The mess that the NCAA is in now, was caused mainly by 3 schools: Ohio State, Oklahoma and Texas.

FALSE.

[thepostman]

The mess that the NCAA is in now, was caused mainly by 3 schools: Ohio State, Oklahoma and Texas.

I swear you live in an alternate reality.

[cruzan_flame13]

[LUGrad2000]

1. Keep the G5 access at all costs. If that is lost, G5 becomes 1-AA.
2. Find a way to make the non playoff bowls a fun, rewarding, and competitive experience for players and fans.
3. G5 need to work together for the sake of keeping up with the P4. Easier said than done. Every school is fighting to position themselves for a move up.

[ballcoach15]

G5 and P5(4) should have never been separated.

[JK37]

G5 and P5(4) should have never been separated.

This is naive. There have always been have’s and have not’s. And there always will be. And you know it. And you’ve contributed to it.

Acknowledging it has allowed them to address it. It’s what’s brought us the playoff system while still allowing all teams to have a shot at it, not just the P4.

[Ill flame]

Liberty estimates that residential enrollment this fall will surpass 16,000 for the first time. The university is welcoming close to 4,400 new incoming undergraduate students. About 8,500 students are living in campus housing.

Liberty is also projecting a record enrollment of about 127,000 students in its online program for the 2024-25 academic year. Liberty’s overall enrollment, in both residential and online programs, is projected to hit a record 140,000 students.

The schools growth doesn't seem to be slowing down.

https://www.liberty.edu/news/2024/08/22 ... hool-year/

[aredd33]

It says Big 12 and UConn discussing UConn joining for football in 2031 and all other sports in 2026.