Fightinibis
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Bingo. The 16 team bracket, this year anyway, as laid out would have at least, in a one year way, somewhat even out the playing field.as a follow up, help me out - when were winners and losers not impacted by money? weren’t the big budget teams always the strong teams, more or less?
any state school in the country could go all in if it wanted.
the big budgets aren’t the thing. it’s mistaken. the thing that’s changed is the same as other industries - technology shrunk the world, so the advantages some schools have are magnified many fold. ohio staye and alabama can recruit more broadly, evaluate better and faster, and kids can more easily learn about far away places, meet kids who will go there, network on social media etc
schools spend more on support today because there’s a return on it technology makes it easier to scout and plan and collaborate and analyze.
all that is inevitable. the one thing that isn’t is the playoff format. that’s the thing people should take aim at. changing the dynamic would change everything competitively. meanwhile no salary cap will do anything under current playoff rules.
We took advantage of a space in time where we out worked everyone, had as close of a monopoly on speed as you could in the Country, and had solid coaching the likes of top tier state schools. Facilities? Didn’t matter...we worked harder.
Now, the all in state school mentality with $$$, coaches, recruits, boosters, etc. place private schools like us at an automatic disadvantage from the jump. Add in a somewhat complacent attitude from your BOT and AD, tough to catch lightning in a bottle.