2024 college football offseason thread

Is life even worth living if we get cheated out of the UMass-Troy trilogy?

 

What is the FBS attendance minimum nowadays? It had been 30k. UMass’ stadium isn’t even 20,000.

 

When they say it's not about the money, it's always about the money. In this case, football money. For every check that comes in from the TV folks for that thrilling Stanford-Duke football game, there's one going out for flying the tennis teams cross-country as well. We'll probably see the Olympic sports go to regional leagues before football and hoops, though. Because money.

 

There is no attendance minimum.

NCAA committee considers increasing transition cost to FBS from $5,000 to $5 million | AP News

 

Re: UR to the Patriot. Wouldn't be surprised if William and Mary follows. The CAA is a total shell of what it was even five years ago. Richmond didn't sign up for games against Hampton, Campbell, NC A&T, etc. The Spiders' contemporaries were JMU, Delaware and the Tribe. Two of them are gone. It's just a weird glob of a conference now.

 

Sounds like UR wants to be aligned with schools with similar academics. The Patriot League is less competitive than the CAA, but the CAA has admitted some dubious schools in recent years who can take athletes that UR can't.

 

Adding Bryant doesn't offset UR and Delaware leaving the CAA. If Villanova and (long shot) W&M joins the Spiders, the PL is better than the CAA.

 

Why would Villanova even consider that move?

 

Graphics … not horrible.

 

Because it can align its football program, which operates outside of the Big East Conference umbrella, with a group of like-minded small, private schools with similar academic profiles and admission standards. It can greatly consolidate its travel footprint, not hurt itself competitively, and begin to foster rivalries with fellow Pennsylvania privates Bucknell, Lehigh and Lafayette.

It can replace the long-time, historical CAA rivals (Delaware, Richmond) it is losing to FBS and the Patriot League, respectively. The public schools in the CAA also have a huge financial advantage when it comes to recruiting walk-ons, which are hugely important at the FCS level, which is limited to 63 FTE scholarships. That would enable VU to level the recruiting field somewhat.

W&M just issued a sort of "vote of confidence" on their CAA membership. So they must be planning to bail.

 

Attention to detail…

Will the gameplay be from that perspective?

I mean, that trailer, with GnR and Sapp and Bevo, is pretty much perfect.

 

Nova is not bailing on the Big East.