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2011 College Football Part II: Bowls, The Rematch, and Recruiting >Tebow

Re: 2011 College Football Part II: Bowls, The Rematch, and Recruiting >Tebow

I didn't know Liberty was now going FBS. Charlotte is starting football in 2013 and going FBS in 2015. Combine that with UMass, Texas State, Georgia State, UTSA and South Alabama all moving up by 2013 and I think the FBS count will be 126 by 2015. Plus App State is also considering.
 
Re: 2011 College Football Part II: Bowls, The Rematch, and Recruiting >Tebow

Spartanforlife4 said:
I didn't know Liberty was now going FBS. Charlotte is starting football in 2013 and going FBS in 2015. Combine that with UMass, Texas State, Georgia State, UTSA and South Alabama all moving up by 2013 and I think the FBS count will be 126 by 2015. Plus App State is also considering.
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FWIW, since Idaho didn't get a MWC invite, unlike most of the rest of the WAC, they are considering going back to FCS, and the Big Sky. Considering, along with a few other options. The big fans up in Moscow don't seem to understand that there are only about 10k of them, which isn't enough to really support a strong FBS team and even fewer enough for a 25k seat stadium..... It's really odd in Idaho right now- BSU is getting football money, and still generally ignores academics; whereas Idaho is more than trumping that with research money, and letting the big money sports fade away. Kinda hard to see what is going to happen in my former state. My gut says that BSU will be in big trouble trying to fund a Big East run for a few years. According to their budget, they are more running in the red than black.
 
Re: 2011 College Football Part II: Bowls, The Rematch, and Recruiting >Tebow

alfablue said:
FWIW, since Idaho didn't get a MWC invite, unlike most of the rest of the WAC, they are considering going back to FCS, and the Big Sky. Considering, along with a few other options. The big fans up in Moscow don't seem to understand that there are only about 10k of them, which isn't enough to really support a strong FBS team and even fewer enough for a 25k seat stadium..... It's really odd in Idaho right now- BSU is getting football money, and still generally ignores academics; whereas Idaho is more than trumping that with research money, and letting the big money sports fade away. Kinda hard to see what is going to happen in my former state. My gut says that BSU will be in big trouble trying to fund a Big East run for a few years. According to their budget, they are more running in the red than black.
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I don't see that as being very surprising. One school is trying to be a big name university for the common folk by trumpeting football, and they probably are letting in a bunch more rif-raf, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, not every school can be like an Ivy League school. And the other is deciding to focus on being a more well established research institution that will end up being more well known in the circles that they want to play in. Its just 2 different strategies for 2 schools that have different target markets. I don't think you can say that one is better than the other overall, since both have their place and necessity.
 
Re: 2011 College Football Part II: Bowls, The Rematch, and Recruiting >Tebow

bigblue_dl said:
I don't see that as being very surprising. One school is trying to be a big name university for the common folk by trumpeting football, and they probably are letting in a bunch more rif-raf, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, not every school can be like an Ivy League school. And the other is deciding to focus on being a more well established research institution that will end up being more well known in the circles that they want to play in. Its just 2 different strategies for 2 schools that have different target markets. I don't think you can say that one is better than the other overall, since both have their place and necessity.
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If BSU's academics were, well, anywhere, I would agree. But they've been kinda poor for a few decades now. Trying not to be biased, but I am, I'm really dissapointed in BSU's school- they have plenty of opportunities to do or be something- granted, it will take work to get the main schools from Idaho, but they can take up plenty of items that nobody in the state is doing- from a real university hospital to green energy (the Magic Valley is a great place for wind power)- there are plenty of things they can work on. Sadly, the atheltic budget is roughly 2x the research budget. And I do realize that the 26% graduation rate is more due to the fact that so many students look at is as a community college to get credits just to tranfer, but one would think that it would be pretty easy to build programs over the time frame since I've been gone- and they seem to not done that.

The state just doesn't spend money on school- so the two main schools are grabbing for money in two different ways- one via football, the other via research. Kind of a version of a single university struggling for the same thing.
 
Re: 2011 College Football Part II: Bowls, The Rematch, and Recruiting >Tebow

100 days until the first College Football Saturday of the new season!
 
MavHockey14 said:
100 days until the first College Football Saturday of the new season!
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It's too bad the college football season gets over shadowed by the college hockey season for me. The Michigan-Alabama game in Dallas is going to be a great one to kick of the season with. Plus the Notre Dame and Navy game in Ireland will be sweet
 
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They also said that under the plan a selection committee would choose the schools that play for the national title.
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That won't cause any problems.
 
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Priceless said:
That won't cause any problems.
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Yeah, but we're going to need those kind of issues cropping up in the future if they're ever going to expend the playoffs from just 4 teams to 8 or 16. That and a bunch of the piddly dink bowls going bust.
 
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bigmrg74 said:
Yeah, but we're going to need those kind of issues cropping up in the future if they're ever going to expend the playoffs from just 4 teams to 8 or 16. That and a bunch of the piddly dink bowls going bust.
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I don't think anyone will mourn the loss of the San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl. :D I wouldn't mind if the Pinstripe Bowl goes bye-bye. It would free up Yankee Stadium for the Winter Classic.
 
Re: 2011 College Football Part II: Bowls, The Rematch, and Recruiting >Tebow

Well at least we wont have to worry about a team not in a Superconference winning...no chance of that with only 4 teams. (2 SEC, 1 Big Ten, 1 Big Twelve)
 
Re: 2011 College Football Part II: Bowls, The Rematch, and Recruiting >Tebow

Handyman said:
Well at least we wont have to worry about a team not in a Superconference winning...no chance of that with only 4 teams. (2 SEC, 1 Big Ten, 1 Big Twelve)
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You forgot the Pac12. You must be a Heisman voter.
 
Re: 2011 College Football Part II: Bowls, The Rematch, and Recruiting >Tebow

PLAYOFFS.

4 teams.

Games will be rotated over 6 bowl games.

We've got 28 pages here to discuss. ;)
 
Re: 2011 College Football Part II: Bowls, The Rematch, and Recruiting >Tebow

And this solves nothing...
 
Re: 2011 College Football Part II: Bowls, The Rematch, and Recruiting >Tebow

Handyman said:
And this solves nothing...
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Billion$, literally billion$ of $olutions.

And they *promi$e* that $ince the agreement is for 12 year$, it will be 4 team$ for a long time.

And it WONT up$et the academic $tudie$ of the player$- they $wear! $chool is $o important.
 
Re: 2011 College Football Part II: Bowls, The Rematch, and Recruiting >Tebow

I'm actually more concerned with the selection criteria than the number of playoff spots or who hosts and televises them.
 
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