If I was Doug Fullerton

[Webergrad02]

1. Hello Big West commissioner, I would like to arrange a 3 team showdown in Vegas with your conference each year.
2. Hello Summit League commissioner, I would like to arrange a three team showdown with your conference alternating between Denver and Kansas City each year.
3. Hello WCC commissioner, we would like to form a partnership with all of your schools except BYU. Their fans are rather annoying.
4. Hello New Mexico State, would you mind playing 3 of our schools in the non conference each year? We will give you two at your arena but you have to travel once a year.
5. Memo to all schools- Hello I just wanted to remind you that you voted to allow North Dakota and SUU into the conference. This included the possibility of traveling to Cedar City of Grand Forks for the conference tournament. I am sorry some of you made the decision to travel by Winebago 2,000 miles in the snow to Grand Forks this year, but that was your choice.
6. Memo to Idaho - Until you move your football program back too, you only get half a vote in official proceedings.
7. Effective Immediately - All rivals will play on Saturday night. No exceptions. The Monday nights games will be reserved for SUU and Idaho only.
8. Sac State will be required to green screen their arena until they can get a new one built. We need the ability to swap in another arena in case another spectacular shot occurs and ESPN comes requesting the tape.

 

[sasquatch]

Re: 1, 2, 3, and 4: The Big Sky should absolutely consider some type of scheduling agreement or series with conferences such as the Big West, WAC, Summit, and possibly even the WCC. Many didn't like the ESPN Bracket Buster, mainly because it fell smack dab in the middle of the conference season, but it did allow an extra D-I game.

Re: 5: Still not sure why some harbor ill will toward the likes of SUU and UND. Adding these schools, whether some liked it or not, solidified the Big Sky at a time it nearly lost Montana and Montana State. I foresee a time when UND will eventually join the other Dakota schools in the same conference, but until then, it is what it is.

Re: 6: Idaho doesn't hold as much weight as some seem to think they do. What are they going to do? The MWC doesn't want them. The Sun Belt is only using them for football. The WAC wants them, but that conference is 1 or 2 defections away from imploding.

Re: 7: The Monday night games took place because of the "lone wolf" (odd number of conference members). Now that there will be 12 teams, teams will be partnered up again. I agree, the Monday night rival games were ridiculous, and should have only scheduled/played that way if it had been for a regional TV audience. Poor vision by the conference to schedule these.

Re: 8: The same could be said of Portland State's Stott Center. I'd love to see Sacramento upgrade their basketball facility, but at least it's usually full. Other conferences have teams with similar plights. Remember the "Matadome?"

 

[Skippy]

Developing scheduling agreements with "like conferences" absolutely makes sense, and may be the only way the Big Sky will ever get decent non-conference home games again. I remember a day back in the 1980s when teams like USC, Washington State and Gonzaga played in Holt Arena. Those days are gone. Now, it's almost impossible to get ANY D-1 teams to come to Pocatello. Scheduling agreements may be our own only hope.

 

[oldrunner]

The NCAA sits back and does nothing on the scheduling issue. In fact, they continue to allow, so called, power conferences to pad their records with purchased home wins and pick more than half of their teams for the dance. The NCAA just needs to grow a pair and stop that crap. They should disallow any team that plays more than 60% of their games at home and they should require all D1 contracts to be 50/50, home and home contracts. They could still schedule a couple of patsies, but they would have to go on the road and prove themselves against OOC D1 teams. If they would do that, you would see a huge leveling of the playing field and a more exciting game all around.

Will they do this? NO. The NCAA is just a puppet of the, so called, power leagues.

 

[Potomac Griz1]

The NCAA sits back and does nothing on the scheduling issue. In fact, they continue to allow, so called, power conferences to pad their records with purchased home wins and pick more than half of their teams for the dance. The NCAA just needs to grow a pair and stop that crap. They should disallow any team that plays more than 60% of their games at home and they should require all D1 contracts to be 50/50, home and home contracts. They could still schedule a couple of patsies, but they would have to go on the road and prove themselves against OOC D1 teams. If they would do that, you would see a huge leveling of the playing field and a more exciting game all around.

Will they do this? NO. The NCAA is just a puppet of the, so called, power leagues.

Couldn't agree more. I'd love to see the big dogs have to travel a little more and maybe...just maybe travel to a mid major school every once in a while.

They should also stop allowing teams that couldn't even finish above .500 in their own conference to be selected as at large bids. If they win their conference tournament sure...but not an at large bid if you couldn't even finish above .500 in conference. Hate seeing teams like that get in while many very deserving mid major teams get snubbed every year.

 

[Skippy]

The NCAA sits back and does nothing on the scheduling issue. In fact, they continue to allow, so called, power conferences to pad their records with purchased home wins and pick more than half of their teams for the dance. The NCAA just needs to grow a pair and stop that crap. They should disallow any team that plays more than 60% of their games at home and they should require all D1 contracts to be 50/50, home and home contracts. They could still schedule a couple of patsies, but they would have to go on the road and prove themselves against OOC D1 teams. If they would do that, you would see a huge leveling of the playing field and a more exciting game all around.

Will they do this? NO. The NCAA is just a puppet of the, so called, power leagues.

Couldn't agree more. I'd love to see the big dogs have to travel a little more and maybe...just maybe travel to a mid major school every once in a while.

They should also stop allowing teams that couldn't even finish above .500 in their own conference to be selected as at large bids. If they win their conference tournament sure...but not an at large bid if you couldn't even finish above .500 in conference. Hate seeing teams like that get in while many very deserving mid major teams get snubbed every year.

Are we talking about the same "big dogs" who just told the NCAA that if they can't establish their own rules in football, they are going to create "Division IV?" Yeah, they're going to let the NCAA tell them how to schedule. :lol: :lol:

 

[WILDCAT]

The NCAA sits back and does nothing on the scheduling issue. In fact, they continue to allow, so called, power conferences to pad their records with purchased home wins and pick more than half of their teams for the dance. The NCAA just needs to grow a pair and stop that crap. They should disallow any team that plays more than 60% of their games at home and they should require all D1 contracts to be 50/50, home and home contracts. They could still schedule a couple of patsies, but they would have to go on the road and prove themselves against OOC D1 teams. If they would do that, you would see a huge leveling of the playing field and a more exciting game all around.

Will they do this? NO. The NCAA is just a puppet of the, so called, power leagues.

Couldn't agree more. I'd love to see the big dogs have to travel a little more and maybe...just maybe travel to a mid major school every once in a while.

They should also stop allowing teams that couldn't even finish above .500 in their own conference to be selected as at large bids. If they win their conference tournament sure...but not an at large bid if you couldn't even finish above .500 in conference. Hate seeing teams like that get in while many very deserving mid major teams get snubbed every year.

Are we talking about the same "big dogs" who just told the NCAA that if they can't establish their own rules in football, they are going to create "Division IV?" Yeah, they're going to let the NCAA tell them how to schedule. :lol: :lol:

Yeah that's not happening

 

[Potomac Griz1]

At some point the NCAA is going to have to show they have some balls though and say no to the big dogs. Of course that won't happen either.

 

[Skippy]

At some point the NCAA is going to have to show they have some balls though and say no to the big dogs. Of course that won't happen either.

The NCAA is a voluntary organization and the Power 5 have the right to decide if they want to live by the NCAA's rules. They have been willing to put up with the obstruction of the non-power schools for years, but now the Power 5 are getting sued at every turn, and are threatened by unionization. The Power 5 have decided to start "sharing the wealth" with their players in an attempt to appease the players rights movement, and rightly so. It's time the athletes got a bigger chunk of the billions of dollars in revenue they are generating for the power conferences.

So the rest of the NCAA has two choices -- go along with giving the Power 5 more autonomy in rule making, or letting the Power 5 leave and take all the television viewers and dollars with them. I don't think the non-Power 5 schools have a whole lot of leverage right now.

 

[oldrunner]

I don't have a problem with the big five breaking away to form a new division. However, for equality reasons, it will need to be for all sports. You can not be left with a man's scholarship being more valuable than a woman's. If they want to pay their athletes more money, and make them semi pro, go for it. They can play amongst themselves, and have their own championships. It just needs to be for all sports, not just football. :bad:

 

[Skippy]

I don't have a problem with the big five breaking away to form a new division. However, for equality reasons, it will need to be for all sports. You can not be left with a man's scholarship being more valuable than a woman's. If they want to pay their athletes more money, and make them semi pro, go for it. They can play amongst themselves, and have their own championships. It just needs to be for all sports, not just football. :bad:

And it will be for all sports, Oldrunner. That is one of the biggest reasons the non-power schools are complaining about extending scholarships to "full cost of attendance" -- because they can't find the cash to pay ALL their athletes. The Power 5 schools will have no problem extending benefits to all their athletes.

 

[SDHornet]

I think the P5 will get autonomy for FB, but everything else will stay in the NCAA. The hoops tourney is worth too much money for the NCAA to let the P5 take everything and just walk away. The P5 holds all the cards and the NCAA knows it. My guess is in the end the P5 gets everything they want and a bag of chips to boot.