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It's a nonstarter, but if someone has it as their opinion, fine with me.

He's trying to provoke posters into lengthy, pointless arguments for his self-gratification. 

Why are the people who like you least always the expert on what you're doing and who you are? 

In my somewhat limited experience, people who actually are experts may or may not like me, or care about me at all, but I tend to listen to their perspective.

People who may dislike me and who claim to be experts at something but aren't are of no account to me.  

I personally like the current system, FWIW, which is not much, I realize most would prefer an 8 team playoff.  I think there are reasons why we don't have one, maybe not reasons folks agree with, but reasons nonetheless.

Got it. You don't say what you really mean and you say what you don't really mean, and we'll work our best to figure that out.

That clears it up. 

But Mex assured me that all of the conferences would quickly even out and MAC money will = B1G money in no time!

Mmm we had Costco carnitas for dinner.

Anyway, no I'm not saying the MAC will equal the B1G.  I am saying there are obvious advantages to being in the P5, but that doesn't equate that we should restrict the postseason to only those teams that get that advantage.

Also, while the B1G and SEC have been pretty stable, other conferences not so much. It would be nice if joining conference A or conference B wasn't determined by gatekeeping. 

Of course it won't, but that system would incentivize them to. 

The on-field system right now incentivizes Rutgers, Wake Forest and Vandy to drop down. All would be able to find basketball leagues they could push around and football leagues where they could have much more successful seasons. 

They do not because the economics favor consolidation. This is still a world where brand and following are king. The most successful team in most mid-major leagues would trade places with Rutgers right now. (This is also why mid-majors in basketball and football mostly don't abandon their home stadiums to try to barnstorm the non-conference to impress people to skeptical to likely be impressed).

I'd be interested to see what would happen if there actually was an exodus. If Wake left and started hogging the MAC playoff spots (and if it mattered), eventually someone with more money would. We'd in essence have an anti-realignment where teams balance things out. The SWC and old Big East could reassemble (they wouldn't).

Do 19 other people want to post the same thing?  Informing me of something I already know, while at the same time, missing the point?

I dunno, it’s the most direct and logical response to a badly mangled point, I suppose, sure.


In this case, I would look at the common denominator and adjust the behavior accordingly.