A new and better FBS thread

[daddy daycare]

What did I move? Just another common sense rebuttal to your made up BS.

[Professor Chaos]

ASUN/WAC looking to move up as a group and form a new football only FBS conference: https://www.espn.com/college-footbal...bs-sources-say

IMO this is absolutely the best chance NDSU would have for FBS if a similar coalition of schools in the MVFC and Big Sky could be put together. Heck, even joing this ASUN/WAC league wouldn't be that bad since it's football only.

Sounds like there are some hurdles to clear in terms of the feasibility of forming a new FBS conference and having it be football only but this seems promising for anyone hoping for NDSU to find an FBS landing spot.

[NDSU92]

ASUN/WAC looking to move up as a group and form a new football only FBS conference: https://www.espn.com/college-footbal...bs-sources-say

IMO this is absolutely the best chance NDSU would have for FBS if a similar coalition of schools in the MVFC and Big Sky could be put together. Heck, even joing this ASUN/WAC league wouldn't be that bad since it's football only.

Sounds like there are some hurdles to clear in terms of the feasibility of forming a new FBS conference and having it be football only but this seems promising for anyone hoping for NDSU to find an FBS landing spot.

Is this going to motivate the real FBS schools into pushing these obviously inferior FCS schools away somehow? What legitimate barriers can they enforce that stop all the FCS schools/conferences from just going FBS at this point?

[El_Chapo]

asun/wac looking to move up as a group and form a new football only fbs conference: https://www.espn.com/college-footbal...bs-sources-say

imo this is absolutely the best chance ndsu would have for fbs if a similar coalition of schools in the mvfc and big sky could be put together. Heck, even joing this asun/wac league wouldn't be that bad since it's football only.

Sounds like there are some hurdles to clear in terms of the feasibility of forming a new fbs conference and having it be football only but this seems promising for anyone hoping for ndsu to find an fbs landing spot.

we keep getting passed up by puds

[Professor Chaos]

Is this going to motivate the real FBS schools into pushing these obviously inferior FCS schools away somehow? What legitimate barriers can they enforce that stop all the FCS schools/conferences from just going FBS at this point?

The politics here will be interesting. I don't see the P5 caring all that much... they still have their monster TV deals and they still get almost exclusive access to the 12 team playoff and big bowl games. However, the G5 conferences would fight this tooth and nail I think. I'm sure they don't want to share their peice of the CFP pie or have more competition for the little access they have to the CFP and the big bowl games.

That said, I don't think the NCAA has much legal standing to block this if a group of schools is committed to it and wants to take on the NCAA in a legal battle... whether or not this new WAC gets any CFP money/access would be a different story though since that's not controlled by the NCAA.

[Professor Chaos]

ESPN article linked above was updated with some serious smoke....

The agreement includes the goal to "immediately explore expansion opportunities," sources said. League officials have begun early conversations with at least four other high-profile FCS football programs, sources said.

[runtheoption]

ESPN article linked above was updated with some serious smoke....

NDSU, SDSU, Montana and Montana State

[TransAmBison]

NDSU, SDSU, Montana and Montana State

That would be fun.

[ndsubison1]

Is this going to motivate the real FBS schools into pushing these obviously inferior FCS schools away somehow? What legitimate barriers can they enforce that stop all the FCS schools/conferences from just going FBS at this point?

I would say probably. Once the 12 team playoff contract starts I bet that will piss off the power conferences and force them to move away when that contract is done.

That being said, NDSU to FBS needs to happen after this news and it needs to happen this off season.

[The_Sicatoka]

There's an NCAA moratorium on new single-sport conferences.

The alleged "golden ticket back to FBS" the WAC has as a former FBS conference, that loophole was closed a couple years ago.

The schools might be "FBS", but the conference won't be FBS because recognized FBS conferences are multi-sport.

Other than those, no challenges ahead for the ASUN-WAC.