2022 FCS Non-NDSU Thread

[BigHorns]

Yeah, you're right I was being dramatic with my "way, way more parity" comment. I will say though that the way I look at it, the FCS should have way, way more parity than FBS and it doesn't. CUSA should be FCS, no doubt.

The cause of the gap at the FBS level is the stupid money budgets at the top, which is to be expected at the top of the college sports pyramid. The cause of the gap at the FCS level is due to there being schools at the bottom of the subdivision who have no scholarships, no COA and no NIL. They belong in lower levels of the pyramid.

Arguably, in both FBS and FCS it is the funding and budgets that cause the huge gaps.
Bottom of FCS doesn't have the scholarships or COA because of money.
What we see as reasonable spending levels the Patriot or NEC would say is stupid big money.

The top of FBS is now approaching $100m/year and up in spending.

Ideally, this would be split into 3 tiers: "high fbs" (elite), "mid/low fbs and power 2/3 FCS" and remainder of FCS.
Separate the tiers largely by spending levels.

There is a chance something like this evolves in the next 5-10 years, especially if the FBS committee ups the standards in a way that disqualifies some schools/conferences like cusa. They've talked about separation based on spending levels, and they aren't planning to grandfather/exempt anyone from the new standards.

[NDSU92]

Arguably, in both FBS and FCS it is the funding and budgets that cause the huge gaps.
Bottom of FCS doesn't have the scholarships or COA because of money.
What we see as reasonable spending levels the Patriot or NEC would say is stupid big money.

The top of FBS is now approaching $100m/year and up in spending.

Ideally, this would be split into 3 tiers: "high fbs" (elite), "mid/low fbs and power 2/3 FCS" and remainder of FCS.
Separate the tiers largely by spending levels.

There is a chance something like this evolves in the next 5-10 years, especially if the FBS committee ups the standards in a way that disqualifies some schools/conferences like cusa. They've talked about separation based on spending levels, and they aren't planning to grandfather/exempt anyone from the new standards.

If D1 football programs think NDSU's budget is stupid big money, I would suggest they move down to D2 where they belong lol. Bottom of FCS doesn't have money for FCS level scholarships? Then why are they FCS?

[BigHorns]

If D1 football programs think NDSU's budget is stupid big money, I would suggest they move down to D2 where they belong lol. Bottom of FCS doesn't have money for FCS level scholarships? Then why are they FCS?

That's a fair point. Just saying the issues we see in FCS also exist at the FBS level.
OSU and Alabama likely feel the same way about SHSU, Kennesaw and FIU.
It's not so different. It's also why they won't be giving every conference a CFP bid ... ever.