SiouxFan Realignment Nonesense

[Sac Rat 3.0]

Thanks NoDak/SiouxVolley/FightinSue.
I see, quicky scanning the fbs message boards, that you have made it your mission to spread the FBS move-up/realignment theories/guessed from the Atlantic Sun to the Big Sky Conference and almost everywhere in between, and that you are as welcome as ticks on a Afghan hound. My mamma said she didn't raise no fool, but I've let her down. Ain't no body got time for this, except you. Enjoy your proselytizing.

 

[Siouxfan]

I’m not proselytizing among dumb [bleeps] like here. Only telling people how Presidents are reacting to big money CFP contracts that are coming. The Presidents can smell big money and they will be in line.

 

[SDHornet]

None of you seem to have grasped the economics of a move to FBS with at least nine other teams.
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Liberty went FBS on its own. It had to pay five FBS teams a year to play in Lynchburg, probably over five million a year. Some was lowered due to playing a home and away series where the cost is zero. The NCAA allows a couple of FCS games too, but those are cheap.

When a conference like the SunBelt allowed Coastal Caroline to move up, all those conference games are free. Coastal had enough home games within the Belt to satisfy the NCAA, and then two games can be against P5’s with each game we’ll over a million. But Coastal doubled the size of the stadium during its transition too. Getting capital costs beforehand avoids financial choke points, which Coastal didn’t have the luxury.

Liberty only gets an independents state of the CFP which is a couple hundred k. Coastal got a SunBelt share of the CFP, which is over a million. The CFP is projected to double with the next contract.

A new “Great Northern” and WAC would each qualify for CFP provided they are FBS at the end of 2024. All the teams would save tens of millions each approaching the FBS transition as a group rather than an individual school.

Each FBS transition could be worth at least $10 million in national publicity too.

FBS makes economic sense transitioning as a group that will become an FBS conference. Liberty might be the sole FCS university that would attempt it as an independent, because they are filthy rich and want the PR.

The Montanas had to get a regional group that it wanted as conference mates to agree on a date for the whole group to attempt the FBS transition. That is true also for the Cali FCS schools.

You're ignoring the expenses side of the equation and painting a false narrative of a magical pot of money at the end of the "FBS" rainbow. Scholarships (and matching Title IX), coaching salaries, facilities, admin support staff/compliance all increase as well. A lot of the universities you are including in your dream moves barely meet FCS minimums for sport sponsorship, so they would incur even more costs to be compliant with the "FBS" minimums.

 

[Siouxfan]

Here is confirmation from ESPN that Montana wanted FBS and wanted a spot in the old WAC.

https://www.espn.com/college-football/news/story?id=5792840

Montana St didn’t have 15k seats at the time, and probably blocked the move with the State Board, which wants both schools in the same conference. Montana St agreed that they would work towards getting a new FBS conference when they would both qualify for the CFP package, but immediately expanded their stadium > 15k and both schools have improved their other FBS player amenities. The timeline for that new conference is fast approaching.

It takes very low IQ to figure that out, which seems to be too high for this board.