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BCS conference realignment, A View of What may Happen
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ValleyBoy
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15 September 2011
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I read this view of what one Georgia Southern fan prespective was toward the changes that are taking place inside college football.
The following view was posted on gsufans.com.
"The Move-to-FBS debate is MOOT!
We are now talking about the BCS conference realignment, and how the fallout will affect the future of Georgia Southern Football.
The FBS/FCS discussion is now irrelevant, and within a short time (some pundits estimate 24 – 48 months), this classification, as we know it now, may cease to exist.
There will be a classification for the BCS schools.
A classification for DIV-1 schools.
A classification for DIV-2 schools, and so on.
The talk of FBS/FCS can now change to, “remember that cool thing they used to do where we could claim championships and still call ourselves division 1.”
No longer!
We are either “MOVING UP” to DIV-1 (joining former non-BCS, FBS teams), or being absorbed by DIV-2, where our current funding dictates we are most attractive to compete.
We are currently NOT funded to remain a competitive DIV-1 program.
However, our administration has made it absolutely clear our intentions are to “MOVE UP” to (or remain in) DIV-1 in football, and to build the infrastructure necessary for us to continue to be competitive – in all sports across the board.
We’re not, for example, “increasing coaches salaries so that they don’t get hired away to an FBS school” – last years thinking.
We’re increasing coaches salaries so they’ll be commensurate with other competitive, championship-level, DIV-I schools (former non-BCS, FBS teams).
The whole Athletics Program needs to be elevated to this DIV-1 standard.
The debate now is are we going to raise the money we need to grow the program, in the short time we have, or will we have to let this ship sail, as we languish in stagnancy at our current financial levels.
No one can say when the train is coming – and no one knows where that train is headed.
But, we do know the train IS coming, and we HAVE TO BE READY when it gets here.
(enter Capital Campaign, stage right)"
I feel like this maybe what comes to pass in the next several years. The question in reference to UNT is where does the Mean Green fall within the new football system that might come to pass.
http://www.gsufans.c...g-Coaches/page8
The following view was posted on gsufans.com.
"The Move-to-FBS debate is MOOT!
We are now talking about the BCS conference realignment, and how the fallout will affect the future of Georgia Southern Football.
The FBS/FCS discussion is now irrelevant, and within a short time (some pundits estimate 24 – 48 months), this classification, as we know it now, may cease to exist.
There will be a classification for the BCS schools.
A classification for DIV-1 schools.
A classification for DIV-2 schools, and so on.
The talk of FBS/FCS can now change to, “remember that cool thing they used to do where we could claim championships and still call ourselves division 1.”
No longer!
We are either “MOVING UP” to DIV-1 (joining former non-BCS, FBS teams), or being absorbed by DIV-2, where our current funding dictates we are most attractive to compete.
We are currently NOT funded to remain a competitive DIV-1 program.
However, our administration has made it absolutely clear our intentions are to “MOVE UP” to (or remain in) DIV-1 in football, and to build the infrastructure necessary for us to continue to be competitive – in all sports across the board.
We’re not, for example, “increasing coaches salaries so that they don’t get hired away to an FBS school” – last years thinking.
We’re increasing coaches salaries so they’ll be commensurate with other competitive, championship-level, DIV-I schools (former non-BCS, FBS teams).
The whole Athletics Program needs to be elevated to this DIV-1 standard.
The debate now is are we going to raise the money we need to grow the program, in the short time we have, or will we have to let this ship sail, as we languish in stagnancy at our current financial levels.
No one can say when the train is coming – and no one knows where that train is headed.
But, we do know the train IS coming, and we HAVE TO BE READY when it gets here.
(enter Capital Campaign, stage right)"
I feel like this maybe what comes to pass in the next several years. The question in reference to UNT is where does the Mean Green fall within the new football system that might come to pass.
http://www.gsufans.c...g-Coaches/page8
The money will show up. We just 23 million from a random alumnus, and 20 from a company. I think we can find other millions if the situation becomes desparate.