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Yeah, so be happy with your second-tier status, because the alternative is we just kick you out entirely.

Which is the same BS that the G5 has been dealing with for decades.

I say, why keep the lie going? Why make this a 70-team league. We know that's not what the helmets and helmet-adjacent teams actually want.

If you're not going to do SOMETHING to try to actually have parity, take your 32 top teams and stop lying to us that we're equal when you're deliberately setting up a tiered system where we can't be equal.
Because you have to keep the boot on their neck, so that they know no matter how hard they fight, they'll NEVER, EVER get steak.

Vandy just stole Bama's steak right off their plate.  Swiped their bottle of Chateau Lafite Rothschild, too.  Twas glorious.

(until they do the same thing to Texas in a couple of weeks)

Would this league be as appealing if the W/L records varied between 9-3 and 3-9?  And the teams bounced around between those marks every few years?  Parity?

Vandy just stole Bama's steak right off their plate.  Swiped their bottle of Chateau Lafite Rothschild, too.  Twas glorious.

(until they do the same thing to Texas in a couple of weeks)

Yeah so occasionally a team can be the Spoilermakers or the... uhhh... Spoilerdores?

Only in the new system losing to Vandy doesn't knock Bama out of the playoff, and beating Bama doesn't get Vandy any closer to the playoff. 

David beat Goliath. But it was only important because it wasn't a 12-game season where David had to face 12 Goliaths in successive weeks.

One reason I don't like the NFL is seeing 10-6 teams (and worse) make the playoffs.

In 2011, the "World Champions" of the NFL went 9-7 (the Giants vs non-16-0 Pats).  Had a 4-game losing streak in November.  Lost both its games to 5-11 Washington.  

Champs.

Which is the same BS that the G5 has been dealing with for decades.

I say, why keep the lie going? Why make this a 70-team league. We know that's not what the helmets and helmet-adjacent teams actually want.

This is what I find odd.  Why radically change everything if you're just keeping the big, fat lie going?  It doesn't make sense.
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I mean, the skeptic pessimist in me would say these decision-makers (ie money-makers) know a tiered system will create a further gap, so that sometime in the future, the top-tier can break away.  But why spend the time to do that?  Just propose it now.  Stop the foreplay.
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Also, mimicking the NFL with a lesser on-field product is the WORST idea possible.  I can't emphasize that enough.  They HAVE to see that, right?!?!?!?

Wake me when it happens.  It seems to be an unending "discussion", most of which ends up in the weeds.

I simulated out a season a couple years ago with 8 team conferences, that left nobody out.

After 7 games it went to a 128 team double elimination tournament, that again included everyone, and teams were slotted like FIFA tournaments, where teams were pre-slotted based on their finish within their conference, based on the difficulty of their conference.

It would never happen, but that's a great way to make every game "matter".  Even if it's a Game 6 matchup with 5th place on the line, that might mean a home game.  And the playoffs would be home games at least down to 16