Per Andy Greder of the Pioneer Press:
Fellow Big Ten West title competitors have somewhat lighter crossover schedules. Wisconsin will play Rutgers and Maryland; Nebraska gets Rutgers and resurgent Michigan State.So, is it good policy for the FBS schools to not schedule the FCS Schools? I don't think so, unless your team has a good shot of making the playoff game. Right now, only four schools make the FBS playoffs.
The FCS schools, which now supplement their budgets with high-paying games against FBS schools, now won't have that revenue.
"That is going to put some real burden on schools of that size and how they are going to go forward with their football programs," said Grant Teaff, executive director of the American Football Coaches Association.
I suppose the Kansas schools will think twice about scheduling FCS schools. Especially, after NDSU beat both of them recently (2010, 2013).
I love what UND does. We have our "FCS" showdown the first game of the year: Manitoba.
ReplyDeleteI've never been bothered by the Big10 and FCS schools because we (speaking as a Nebraska resident and, hence, about the Huskers) seem to do it so early in the season.
If we want to keep revenue flowing to the FCS teams by playing FBS teams, then perhaps some sort of alternate arrangements can be made: Such as severely hurting any FBS team that plays an FCS team late in the season (looking at you SEC) with regards to things like strength of schedule or whatever ratings and rankings are used to compute playoff chances in close races. In other words, if TCU and tOSU are vying for the same playoff spot (which was what it was in January) and all things were equal (which it wasn't but for this example it will be) but TCU played Doorknob State College of Mines and Deep Holes (FCS) in the second to last regular season contest but tOSU played St. Swithian's Beauty College and School of Music (FCS) as their home opener, tOSU would win the comparison and get into the Playoffs.
I guess if they were to continue, I'd still say keep the punitive consequences of an FBS team losing to an FCS team but minimize the benefit of an FBS team winning because, NDSU aside, there really shouldn't be much in the way of FCS dominance. FBS SHOULD win the game.
I think the B1G is tired of losing to teams they should beat.
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