10-17-2024, 08:32 PM
(10-17-2024, 05:36 PM)GK3 Wrote: As far as I am concerned, we either go all in on something like this, or downsize football to D2 or D3. If we are really going to compete in football, we need a level playing field and at the moment the field is tilted about 45 degrees against us.
At this moment I think we can still compete in this mess in other sports and at least have a decent chance of being competitive, even basketball.
The future landscape may not involve the NCAA and its rules, at least when it comes to football. But at the moment isn't it a rule that a school can't play football at the D2 or D3 level when the rest of its athletics department plays in D1? Isn't that the rule that forced UCSB to give up football way back when?
I suppose that's actually what the Pioneer football league is for. A nominally single sport D1 football league that chooses to be non-scholarship, effectively allowing D1 schools to play D3 football.
Travel doesn't get any easier compared to the ACC.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_Football_League