How long will we have access?

[Mjohn1988]

Bowls will have to go away completely or be reinvented for there to be a breakaway and the G6 to get their own playoffs. Then you have to look at what makes sense financially for the networks because we all know that’s what drives this bus.

Rick Neuheisel on the Dan Patrick Show had an interesting take. He mentioned bowl games being front loaded at the beginning on the year. I didn’t get an opportunity to hear how this idea might be implemented but thought it was a cool concept to save “bowl games” because that’s a lot of dough.

The autonomous programs will need to split before taking away access to avoid a class action antitrust lawsuit. I know it won’t happen but I’m of the mind that if the 40-60 programs decide to split, the G teams need to set a firm “no scheduling” clause on the books for all sports. If G teams aren’t good enough for their playoff, they shouldn’t be good enough for the regular season. At a minimum, do not allow buy games with autonomous teams, must be home and home or they can just play themselves. Absolutely no G team is allowed to schedule ND. Maybe G teams can play A teams in an exhibition bowl game (neutral site or home of G teams) to open the season to bring Neuheisel’s idea to life.

The fans would need to follow suit and not watch any autonomous programming. See how those media deal payouts drop when viewership is slashed. It needs to be a steadfast boycott of all things autonomous.

The G teams can form their own real playoff where each conference winner gets in and then at-large selections. We can debate the best format 12 (6 auto/6 at-large) or 16 teams (6 auto/10 at-large). If you want to implement minimum standards for all G teams, this would be the time to do it. Whether it pertains to attendance, NIL, budget size, salaries etc., and actually enforce the rules with a financial penalty or playoff ban until compliant.

Players get 1 opportunity to transfer without penalty. After that, a player must sit a year regardless of the situation like a coaching change or program playoff ban.

Striking a media deal would be paramount to making this successful. I’d like to drop ESPN altogether if possible and have all the G fans cancel their ESPN+ subscriptions. Try to land deals with CBS, maybe TNT and some streaming services like Prime, HULU and/or Netflix.

If only…

[AppfaninCAALand]

Random Thoughts.
If it is truly going to be an NCAA championship, then every conference needs representation. There are ten conferences in FBS, All ten conference champions should make the field. They could do 6 at large bids and that's it, 16 teams no byes.
OR
They could up the number of at large teams and do play in games between the G6 conferences.

The way I see it, every NCAA championship should be setup with all conference champs plus an equal number of at large bid, the way most sports do it. That would mean a 20 team playoff. Some sports differ a little on the margins (I think they tend to keep the numbers around 15% of the total participating schools), but equal auto bids and at-larges is the norm across most sports and should be the goal of every sport. The CFP being a separate animal from the NCAA has always bothered me since I was kid and the pollsters voted for a "champion".

But what do I care? I only watched two NCAA championship games in the last year, and neither was the football championship (it wasnt basketball either - in fact I dont even know who won the basketball title last spring)

[t4pizza]

I have nothing to add to this that hasn't already been said. However, the fact that this is even an argument shows how ridiculous, corrupt, and money-hungry college football has become. Can you imagine March Madness without any mid-major participation? Consider baseball- a G5 team has appeared in the championship series 25 times in College World Series history. It's only football that tries to lock out mid-major schools, and it's 100% about money. Everything strange (in a bad way) about college football points back to money.

Edit: It's also worth noting that the college football playoff is the only college championship that is not sanctioned by the NCAA. The NCAA does not officially have a D1 championship.

Yes they do, it is the FCS champion. How quickly we all seem to forget. FCS is D1 and the championship is NCAA sponsored.