Posted by gomiami1972 on 9/30/2015 7:02:00 PM (view original):
Posted by gillispie1 on 9/30/2015 1:10:00 PM (view original):
Posted by gomiami1972 on 9/30/2015 7:33:00 AM (view original):
How about we eliminate baseline prestige completely. Dumbest concept implemented for HD. This is not What if Sports, this is Recreate Real-life Power and Prestige Sports. I guess RRPPS did not sound as good from a marketing standpoint as did WIS.
i guess my objection is that is what d2/d3 are (no baseline) and i really don't see the point of having a ladder up to d1 unless there is something significantly different about d1 itself.
I respect your opinion, gillispie, so I'm not going to attack it.
I don't know what to say at this point. Real life college sports exist on a complicated revenue redistribution system where a choice number of schools generate most of the money and the rest live off of the them. The problem is that, in this environment, the effects are essentially reversed. The prestige schools generate LESS revenue for WIS due to rewards credits. In this completely ***-backward setup, people are being given a choice in DI to either pay the lion's share of $12.95 each season for a school that has no chance of winning or paying a much reduced share of $12.95 by being in a power conference. The result is a mostly full, lower profit BCS tier and a mostly empty, higher profit non BCS tier.
It is an absurd business model.
thats fair. i mean, d1 as it is today is clearly broken, i 100% agree with that. i guess we just disagree on why - and not even that much - im for a half fluid baseline, i guess thats not halfway to no baseline, but a 100% fluid baseline and no baseline seem *pretty* similar to me.
i am really with options on his post a couple below yours. before recruit gen changes, plenty of mid majors were successful - you could win anywhere, and there were many more mid major programs that were filled than BCS programs. at that time, baseline was (per seble) stronger than it is now, although i cant personally see the weakening effects he said he put into place. today, you can't win everywhere, but eliminating baseline won't move that needle much - IMO - because there are still going to be a+ programs (regardless of baseline) who have massively better teams than everyone else, and its going to be a very similar problem to today - its just a slightly different set of folks who will be the haves. when i try to coach up a team, i don't feel baseline pulling me down, its all about getting into that class of schools who can get the good guys.
that said, im still for an adjustment to baseline and bonus money. i just don't think its going to get us that far under the current recruit gen paradigm, and i am for moderated change in general, so i probably will never see eye to eye on a 100% rip out (at least without some incremental changes and a reassessment in between).