Big 12 may expand this summer.....

untjim1995 · March 22, 2016

13 hours ago, caseyorourke said:

I was checking out the FCS Stats videos on Youtube about FCS stability. Craig Haley, FCS Head writer for STATS, was mentioning that the FCS commissioners were looking at the possible upcoming changes in the FBS, especially among the P-5 conferences. When asked what he saw for the FCS in 5 years, he said that if the P-5 decides to break off on their own, he sees the possibility of a merger between the G-5 and the FCS top conferences.

FCS stability

This is gonna happen. The question is when. The leftover programs and the top end FCS schools will form a new division of play, that may even combine bowls and a playoff system. But when the P5s leave, we won't have any choice. I am coming around to the idea that the top end of the G5, your AAC and MWC schools, may very well get to play P5s going forward, but the culling of the bottom end of FBS will begin soon. The Big Xii's future demise will probably be why the MWC and AAC won't get dropped immediately, as they will house the leftovers of the Big XII's remnants, such as Baylor, TCU, Iowa State, and anyone else who gets left behind. Those leagues won't be Power Leagues, but they will be able to play the Power Leagues and probably still get a BCS bowl slot guaranteed. But we will be in the new I-AA, probably meaning that we will be in a regional league with other SBC, CUSA, and SLC teams.

We have nobody to blame except our leadership. They punted back in the 80s, damn near killing the program. Then, with a new chance to start over again, we have managed to blow every advantage we had to build up a solid FBS program. And we completely torpedoed our progress in basketball, making us even less appealing to other conferences above us. Where there's a will, there's a way...and when there's no will, as we have seen, the way is basically standing in place while others have zoomed by. But, hey, you can get a degree for thousands less here in Denton!! And we don't even expect you to have any other affiliation with the university or town ever again!!