clt says this guy is full of 
He smokes rocks Roe Rogan.
Anymore word / leaks on Army joining??
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Army is not coming for awhile. It costs them money to get out of all the games theyâve scheduled in the upcoming seasons. Army also has an existing TV deal with CBS Sports Network and the AAC has a deal with ESPN. They might end up joining the AAC but it might not be until 2027 when they donât have a full schedule of games.
I tend to agree but a 10 - 1 season with a chance at the playoffs might change their equation somewhat. The problem is does everything that we know about conferences and playoffs change by 2027.
Letâs stop with the Aresco said no to the remaining PAC schools. Itâs clear the remaining schoos want to hold on to P5 $ for as long as they can, and hope they can change the rules going forward. Joining the AAC would have sacrificed all of that.
âWe want fair consideration under a Power Five umbrella,â Oregon State athletic director Scott Barnes told Yahoo Sports. âWe want access and distribution is important. We didnât put ourselves in this position. Weâll continue to invest at a Power Five level. We have an expectation that weâll be able to discuss what access and distribution look like while creating our path forward.â
In a message presumably meant for conference commissioners whose leagues have swelled with the addition of existing Pac-12 schools, Barnes added, âWe didnât cause this. Those that did need to help us with the solution.â
Also thisâŠ
For some, an unchanged playoff format is a non-starter. Granting one Group of Five champion an automatic berth is âhard enough to explain, but it was a compromise,â Sankey said. Granting two G5 champions access would, in many years, mean leaving out two top 12-ranked teams for an unranked team.
âThe system really canât justify that,â Sankey said. âIf you displace the 11th best (at-large) team with an unranked team, the system canât explain itself.â
The G5 bid stuff is a tremendous load of b.s.
First, JMU, Air Force and Tulane are again proving all 3 are good enough for a playoff bid. They have lost 1 game between the 3 of them, and that was to #13 Ole Miss when Tulane did NOT have their star QB - and they were still competitive in that game.
2nd - that is the b.s. aristocracy > meritocracy argument. If you create an additional path to the CFP for G5 programs, you WILL invite more parity to the system. And thatâs what they really want to deny. They donât want the bread and butter 3 and 4 star players that make up their rosters realizing that they have just as good of a shot at the CFP playing at a high end G5 as they do playing for a mid rung SEC or B1G program. Again, itâs about greed and power, not this fantasy that the G5 programs cannot compete. They have worked hard to shut them out, to keep them away from the cool kids table. They donât want to let them back in.
We could have said that we didnât put ourselves in the position to go to the A10, but really we did. We did that by not doing the right things within our athletic department. There is a reason why they got left behind, and I assume it was their fault for getting left behind. It was stated that some PAC schools were not involved in the PAC development so maybe that helped convince some schools to bolt.
Agree with all of that. The problem is that no one with substance has been able to fight it. In some ways the PAC situation is good and bad for us. If they fight it and lose, and the 6+6 method stays in place, with 2 G5 schools able to get in, thatâs obviously good for us.
On the other hand, theyâre one of the few, and maybe only, to fight the P5 from steamrolling everybody. Their claim of "We didnât cause this. Those that did need to help us with the solutionâ is the approach G5 schools should have taken a long time ago. If theyâre able to have some sort of success with this dispute, it could be beneficial to to the rest of the G5.
Right now it seems the best solution for us is for the PAC to survive in some capacity, and as a result force the P4 to keep the 6+6 system.
I get that. But thereâs always going to be schools that are able to spend more than others, within the same athletic conference. Using your argument there wouldnât a single G5 school in the CFP because the top 12 athletic budgets are in the P5. To take that a step further you could then say only SEC and B1G should be in the CFP because they make up the 12 largest athletic budgets, except for maybe ND.
I really have no sympathy for WSU or OSU because they have been part of the problemâŠthey had no problem poaching Colorado or UtahâŠthey didnât raise a single concern when the B12 raided the AACâŠto say they didnât cause this is a pathetic attempt to absolve themselvesâŠThey sound now like Memphis fans being âleft behind,â but they had no problem that Memphis was left behind as long as they could ride the coat-tails of USC/UCLA or even their own fellow state institutions, i.e UW and UO.
In other words, they gladly participated in the system until the system bit them in the ass.
The cries from many of the leftovers whenever the super league (top SEC, B10 and maybe a few ACC teams) happens will be funny to watch. Like you said you donât have a problem with it until it doesnât work in your favor.
I donât have sympathy for them. Iâm just hoping that now that itâs happened to them, they see the light. Iâm hoping that aresco, and G5 atheltic directors say âthis is what G5 has been fighting for a long timeâ. Iâm hoping if their lawsuits and appeals are succesful, it could lead to some sort of reform.
clt says the acc started all of this by adding boston college for some reason
