Posted by dacj501 on 8/4/2012 12:59:00 PM (view original):
that should be rather obvious - I am a mediocre BCS coach...why should I suffer to boost some mid major?
And looking at it from one of the elite teams viewpoints.....why should a scrub BCS team in my conference be rewarded with the same amount of money that I get when I (and the other NT teams) "earned" it and the only reason the scrub team got an equal payout was because he happened to be in the right conference and rode the top teams coat tails to the money?
Last season I made it to the title game in Tark. That's 6 games at 20K per game, 120K total. Each team in our conference got 10K for the work that "
I" did, every last one of them. I can't remember exactly what we ended up with for NT money, but for argument's sake, let's say it was around 40K. So the 1-26 team at the bottom of our conference ends up getting an extra 40K to recruit with while a mid major who goes 26-5, pulls a first round upset, but was the only team in his whole conference to make either the NT or PIT ends up with a measly 3333K extra to work with. Why? Location, location, location. He DID his job. The lowly BCS coach didn't. Yet, the lowly BCS coach ends up with
12 times the amount of recruiting cash that the mid major does, simply because he was in the right conference. How is THAT fair? A coach wants the extra recruiting cash, he better get his act together and get his team headed in the right direction.
So, to sum up..................why should a mid major suffer to boost some mediocre BCS team?