On college football gameday this morning, Lee Corso said he had an idea. “Power 5 teams should be considered major leagues, and the group of 5 should be considered the AAA’s like baseball. The Power 5 teams should have their own rankings and the group of 5 should have their rankings. The best team of the group of 5 should be an automatic bid for a major bowl berth vs a power 5 team. The Power 5 teams should be the ones with the playoffs only.”
Reece responded to this comment by saying, "Don’t worry Coach, it’s coming…it’s definately coming.
---- He does not believe Cincinnati is for real, and that they are a AAA team and cannot be considered seriously. Kirk Herbstreit responded that Notre Dame doesn’t have an impressive win schedule. Kirk believes Cincinnati should be considered as the 4th team in the playoff.
Corso is everything wrong with college football. People deciding who is worthy and who isn’t worthy, no matter what happens on the field because they know who is the best. Basically just talking heads diverting money to the people who are already in power.
He disgusts me. His view of things is so not what America stands for. Unfortunately it is what America is in many cases.
It is time for him and his mascot heads to exit stage left. Don’t tell me not so fast my friend, just get off the stage.
I brought up this idea 12 years ago to Charlie Palillo’s radio show to do college football like English Premier League Soccer. A certain number of schools in P5 who finish at the bottom of their league would be relegated to the Group of 5 And those who finish at the top of the G5 move up to the P5
It’s not at all like relegation. Throwing a bone to one G5 school each year is not the same as 5 schools moving down and 5 schools moving up to make more money and maybe have some sustainability.
I have written it countless times. The stinky rodent and its cartel allies are killing college football.
What made college football?
Local rivalries where fans could drive an hour or so to their nearest rival or even less. That rivalry was embedded into our DNA.
The stinky rodent is only looking at one thing:
Shareholder returns. It could care less about what sports is all about. Yes we will soon be part of the cartel if all “falls into place” but I will still defend an undefeated to be part of this scam. All of these schools are benefiting from federal money. There is nothing federal about this scam.
They have so much power over college football let alone the money. The would fight any kind of relegation from happening. Them and ESPN would shut down relegation talk.
I highly recommend everyone listen to this Freakonomics podcast where they discuss in great length Leicester City’s improbable Premier League Championship. It was all about a little money falling their way that the Man U’s and Liverpool’s of the world decided to share (ad money from United States’ NBCSN contract).
This format would have allowed a school like Houston or UCF to thrive years ago.