Quote: Originally Posted By watch_this on 5/19/2010
Yeah but in the big 12, that money is not split evenly.

I'm not arguing for the other position, I'm just saying that you can't say because the Big Ten does it, we must do it here, because there are examples IRL that are opposite.

I can see the merits of both sides. On one side, many coaches argue that baseline prestige is unfair and makes recruiting extremely skewed towards the power conferences, eliminating the "build your dynasty" part of the game. Wouldn't this be a possible weight on the other side of the balance beam, trying to make recruiting more even? It would also cause more even distribution of teams throughout D1 as teams search for conferences with less humans, which could be a good thing in order to prevent ghost conferences.



I agree that it may help out with coaches looking at teams in those Ghost conferences, they would receive alittle bit more recruiting money going forward

Quote: Originally Posted By doomey on 5/20/2010Besides that, you WANT to give those sims money so that they can at least ATTMEPT to land a few quality players so people will end up picking up those teams

Quote: Originally Posted By dalter on 5/20/2010This is the most ill-conceived idea I've seen suggested on here in quite some time.


Agreed (and for the third time tonight I'm agreeing with Dalter. Are the planets all lined up or what)?

Quote: Originally Posted By oldave on 5/21/2010
here is something that i wondered about as Cornell was making thier bigdance run this year:

Travelling to these far flung first round sites can be a significant expense. Cornell got lucky that sw16 was in our backyard, but still there are expenses.

i know cornell may not be the best example as I know we have bajillions in endowments, but i can tell you for a fact that our athletic department struggles to make ends meet, especially in the past few years with the economy in the toilet and alumni a little less eager to donate.

In any case, my point is that there are expenses associated with the bigdance, especially if you win a few games. (its not just the team travelling, but the band, cheerleaders, trainers, AD, associate AD, key alumni, etc) ... it just seems weird that in a very shortterm sense, you are better off financially being the team that missed the postseason if you are in one of these equal-pie conferences (which i think the ivy is)

i guess i just wish that (in HD and real life) the dancing team gained a little financial advantage over his conference-mates.

For instance:

for every nt game played, you currently earn $20K for your conference. Im suggesting maybe the dancing team should get to keep something like $2K of that with the other $18 going into the conf pot.

of course, the problem with this is that it quickly leads to "rich get richer". so im not sure it would be such a great idea in HD after all (do you see what is happening? since daalty has been abducted by the logic police, i am reduced to arguing with myself!)

But i still think in real life the dancers should get a slightly bigger piece of the pie.



So do you agree with my post or no?

I am not saying if there is 1 human in a conference with a bunch of SIM AIs that they get to keep the whole 20K or whatever they win, like I stated earlier, maybe they can get a percentage more for making the dancing and having success then there SIM AI conference counter parts.