It's a group of schools in college football being artificially promoted over another group with a new label for the unwanted group. There is no "Power" in some of those top rated football programs like Illinois, Indiana, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Smut, etc...
It's similar to the European Super League splitting off into a 64-team soccer league.
https://www.sportspromedia.com/news/european-super-league-new-format-a22-aleksander-ceferin-uefa-reaction/#:~:text=All teams will play home,and relegation between the leagues.
Plus, more financial differentiation might only accelerate the rate at which top G5 players transfer up to play at P4 institutions.
“These jobs are even harder now because if one of your players has a great season, he’s probably getting plucked away,” Dykes said. “Your only chance is to build a great culture and hope that keeps most of your roster intact.”
And for Morris, the question then becomes about keeping the G5 teams relevant and thriving if they’re more formally in the second class of college football nationwide.
link: https://www.on3.com/news/sonny-dykes-predicts-future-split-among-p4-g5-schools-alabama-and-la-tech-arent-playing-the-same-sport/
I can see how it looks similar, but I would say that with today's landscape, it's a different world. It's one thing playing against schools with larger budgets, but when you start having your best players picked off year after year when they can get paid, it adds a variable that Dickey or other coaches in the past never had to deal with. He did not have to deal with the fact that schools could pay players to be practice squad members more than most G5s can afford to pay players.
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