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How good is the MVFC
IAA Fan:
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--- Quote from: HappyPenguin on October 03, 2014, 06:35:03 AM ---They want all conferences represented, regardless of actual performance. Otherwise those smaller conferences suffer from lack of exposure. They have a vested interest to keep them relevant.
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That is EXACTLY how it should be Happy. EXACTLY. Why would you want it any other way?
The SEC was "allowed" to get away with anything because of $$$ from GE (ABC/ESPN). Now the future of the FBS/IA is "in the crapper". Do you want the same thing to happen to FCS/I-AA?
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"IF" that's exactly how it should be then there should be no "b****ING" about the playoff snub. As long as the NCAA want to represent all conferences better teams will suffer and the best team will not get a chance to settle it on the field. I wonder how the playoff's will look at the 1FBS level with the every conference represented LOL!!
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THIS^^^^^^^
Best Teams should only compete in the playoffs
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I would agree if we did not have regions or conferences. 118 teams going at it ...no affiliations at all.
Penguin Nation:
--- Quote from: paladin on October 03, 2014, 10:41:57 AM ---With the MVFC as a FBS league and split into East & West divisions, it would open up hoem games with MAC teams, maybe home and home with maybe Indiana, Northwestern or maybe a Syracuse , Pitt, Army, Navy or Cincinnati. Lots of options open as a FBS school. Plus your limited MVFC division games.
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A MVFC team has won the national championship three years in a row.
In 2014, the MVFC is 23-1 versus the rest of the FCS.
The MVFC is already rated in conference strength by Massey as stronger than 2 current FBS conferences.
The scheduling advantages that Paladin notes are HUGE.
And.....the FCS playoff selection committee becomes irrelevant to us
paladin:
AND, given the geography of the MVFC, throw in a TV contract ! Get two 8 team MVFC divisions and play BCS schools the other 4 or 5 games. Marshall, Cincinnati, Pitt, Syracuse, Indiana ,Army, Maryland, WVU, Penn St., Purdue, etc. In fact lots of FBS schools located much closer than the Dakotas or Iowa, travel is shorter, quicker allowing Fans to travel on the road while holding expenses down in the budget. PLay a few games on TV and make a bowl game. Think attendance would go up ? I do. Think being BCS and "the big time" makes a difference in how folks look at the program ? I do.
Where's that b!tch Viverito ? Pitch this and get it moving.
Spiderlegs:
Moving the entire conference to FBS is a great idea that fixes lots of issues for the MVFC but this won't happen any time soon. Here's why: Minimum attendance requirement for FBS football is an average of 15,000 per game. NDSU is the only MVFC school meeting that standard right now. MVFC as a conference ranks third in attendance in FCS with a little under 11,000 per game. (Weather may be a factor here--the two highest conferences are in the South.) UMass, which is regarded as the ghetto of the FBS, still averages over 15,000 per game.
Last year YSU was second in the conference with a little more than 13,000 per game. Missouri State is having a bit of a run between the current performance of its team and the novelty of its new stadium, but this will fizzle by the end of the next year, sooner if it loses a few conference games.
There's still way too much uncertainty to talk about a move to FBS. Everyone needs to keep in mind that the current estimate is that proposed changes to the NCAA will cost the top five conferences an average of $3.5 million per school and they are talking about cutting non-revenue sports to make this happen. A movement has started to encourage the presidents to overturn the changes, but the outcome is still uncertain.
Penguin Nation:
I can't speak to the dynamics at other MVFC schools, but if YSU rose to the FBS with the MVFC, and played local MAC schools, the surge in attendance would be so significant that stadium expansion would be considered.
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