Posted by girt25 on 1/7/2011 8:03:00 AM (view original):
Posted by zags27 on 1/7/2011 3:30:00 AM (view original):
Dan, I agree with you 100% that the new engine making mid to low level DI a ghost-town is not a good thing... however, I just disagree that letting the lower tier teams have the same ability to reach an A+ prestige is the answer to that or any other problem.
TeamRC BTW... (too tired to find the right account) 
Hey man, didn't realize that teamrc was an alias -- you're missed in Rupp.
I never said that they should have the same ability to get an A+. Currently they don't have the ability to achieve an A+. I'm talking about a happy medium. (And it's really not even A+ that I'm talking about specifically, it's making prestige more flexible in general.) I do think it's pretty clear that to keep DI healthy, the low/mid teams simply have to be able to compete more than they can now.
I think that giving a potential moving baseline can fix the problem we see at lower level d1, as can increasing recruits and what not that has been talked about. (I'm still all WIS getting rid of the arbitrary positions that they give each recruit, let us choose where they play). That is a very strong resume and I think A for sure, A+ for the shown prestige.
The thing is you have a bad season or forbid two in a row you're looking at a really tough prestige drop, whereas if Duke has no success for 10 years and all of a sudden makes a Final Four run they're back up to the As and they can lose for the next 3-4 years and still hang on to a mid B. That just shouldn't happen imo.
And zags, i do want something tied to real life, which you'll see in my original post I think that some of the 'moving baseline' should include a set (ie duke gets A+,100 points, whatever) for this 25-30% of the formula and the rest comes from the HD worlds stats. That still gives Duke/UNC a big advantage over other schools, yet one that can potentially be overcome, which (imagine this) is just like real life!