Posted by tkimble on 6/15/2013 2:33:00 AM (view original):
I think no baseline prestige is a bad idea- Look at the prestige swings in D2/D3, those fluctuate a HUGE amount after just 1 season. There's no "history" because it only looks at a 4 year window.
I propose that this new world have a "floating" baseline prestige. Everyone would start at a baseline of C (or something, that could be thought about more). The floating baseline would take into account the previous 20 seasons or so (again, not sure how we would work this out at the beginning of the world) which would create the element of "history". This would allow you to build up a school over a long time and actually have a benefit for sticking around. People could create their own power conferences by sticking around long term.
History is a factor in real life, but in an ideal WiS world, we would create or own history instead of letting WIS dictate it for us (and not have it be able to be adjusted).
I would argue that the swings in prestige are pretty realistic for teams with no massive backlog of quality seasons/programs, and that there is a LOT less ******** about prestige at d2 and d3 than there is at d1. and that most of the complaints regard baseline prestige and conference prestige.
so perhaps a d3 prestige system is ideal (where the difference in A and B isn't so extreme, too)... It would surely make recruiting interesting if B- Utah could beat A UCLA for a recruit every now and then. and even more so if it were B- UCLA trying to defend a local against A Utah.