Posted by mullycj on 1/17/2017 12:23:00 PM (view original):
I'm more with the skins opinion that everyone shouldn't get a participation trophy (even in 3.0). You shouldn't be able to win a recruit 2+ letter grades lower then another school.
"A" schools should be battle other "A and B" schools.
"C" schools should be battling "B/C/D" schools.
Otherwise, like skins said, if everyone can get everyone, why the fck do we even have prestige?
With regards to your last comment. That's the participation trophy mentality. Brown (at C) should have 0% at signing a top recruit. What Brown should be doing is working to get to "B" prestige so that they CAN eventually get a top recruit. But Seble and his participation trophy mentality wants everyone to feel like a winner.
Well. if getting to the NT gets you a B than I mostly agree with you. REMOVING THE REAL LIFE ARGUMENT, the drawback I see is that some teams never drop below a B. Kansas can lose from now until when my wife decides she like me again (just joking) and it'll be a B and I can pretty much never take Fordham to an A+.
Baseline prestige reeks havoc on creating something close to a level playing field.
And to answer your question, we have prestige because it helps the teams, I am all for it helping, I am against it dictating who can ever try to play.