I think he's sort of spot on for the most part. It may not sweep across FCS like some tremendous fire but it will creep and then reach a tipping point which will make it move fairly quickly.grizzaholic wrote:You really are delusional. Guess I shouldn't be as surprised as I am.Libertine wrote: For starters, this has nothing to do whatsoever with the Big South or FCS for that matter. This is entirely about FBS and proving that from an organizational and financial standpoint, Liberty is prepared to do what is necessary at that level.
As for the Big South, the conference can't prevent it from a legal standpoint for anti-trust reasons. The Southland has already come out and said as much with regards to their own member schools.
Honestly, as much as Coastal fans are howling about Liberty doing this, it's mostly because they didn't do it first and I could certainly seem them doing it second...or third, fourth or ninth since Liberty surely will not be the only FCS program to go this direction. Face it, people. Allowing in Cost Of Attendance was the only way that the NCAA was going to survive as a governing body and, now that it's here, COA is going to be the driving force in college athletics at all levels.
Not saying for all sports at every institution but it will be for at least MBB and football at most of the top conferences in FCS in the next 6-8 yrs. I'd bet.
This will probably be the thing that splits the P5 & G5 and thus pushes some G5 and top FCS schools into sort of the same arena. To be honest a top 25 FCS school with COA is probably gonna be better than any G5's without it. I doubt there will be many of those but the small gap will be even smaller than it is now.