Quote Originally Posted by Freddyburg Hokie View Post
You take the top 64 athletic budgets (or football budgets). Every five years, evaluate which of the lower division schools decided step up to the plate and spend some money like the big boys, and which of the upper division schools decided to go it on the cheap, and swap them. Relegating the upper division schools to the lower division, and promoting the lower division schools to the higher division. So a school that decides they want to play in the upper division has a mechanism to get there.

Not denying anybody a path forward. Just saying that if you want to compete at the highest level, you need to compete at the highest level, not ride a conference mate's coattails there.
We didn't step up to the plate when we hired CFB, but he would never had a chance to accomplish what he did in the caste system that you envision.

Is this about who has the best athletes or who has the most money?

If it's the latter, then let's just cut to the chase, and award the MNC with the program that spends the most money. Boom done deal!

Isn't that why the NY Yankees have the most World Series wins...bigger parole? How much does the Yankee infield make each year compared to an average CEO?

And let's just have 1 big oil company like Standard Oil.

Personally, if we go down your path, I'd just as soon adopt the Ivy League Model and have real student athletes and concentrate on academics.

Again, I don't think this will ever happen because of political pressure. Remember how we finally got into the ACC? Wasn't about money or facilities or the product on the field even though none of that hurt. It was primarily political.

Finally, this will render all this a moot point sooner than everyone thinks:

http://www.usdebtclock.org/

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