True. NVM. Must have been having a flashback to my youth when I posted that.

Here's a story from an OU alum on the topic:

Pretty comprehensive review of the situation, I liked the breakdown into major considerations. Of course, they screwed up the attendance stats and put Toledo above 20,000 and us below. It chaps me when these kinds of simple things are messed up. You tend to wonder about the validity of other things that are said.

According to the papers out here,the NCAA will let the Power 5 make thier own rules while still considering them  D1 since, if they don't, and the Power 5 leave the NCAA  to form D IV,the NCAA looses all the money the Power 5 generate.

You are so right about the loss of home games under the new scenario. It is amazing that Bo Pelini at Nebraska voted for it, because Nebraska has always wanted to play at least 7 home games.
And as far as the fans wanting to see better teams, that's all good and well until they start losing to those "peer" teams instead of beating up on the have nots. There's are only so many Kansas's around to play for these guys.

I'm already pretty close to that.  I buy my Ohio season tickets, and go to a UC game once every other year, and that's about it. These are places where the STUDENT is still part of the phrase student-athlete, and Saturday football games still feel like COLLEGE athletics. 

Frankly, I'd rather spend fall Saturday's hiking a trail in Hocking Hills, or at a winery or craft brewery than watch B1G or SEC football games.

While it's true that with a smaller group, P5, there will be more equality, they still won't be equal. There is no way that the athletic budget at, say, Kansas State is close to the budget at Ohio State. There is no way that the home gate take for a home game at Iowa State is close to the home gate at Penn State. Economics tells you that will mean the same thing you have now, but on a different scale: The have-nots will end up playing away "money games", trying to even up some of the budget disparities. Thus my guess is that you'll still see teams like Ohio State, Alabama, Penn State, Nebraska, and Texas playing 7  home games. The losers will the teams like Kansas State, who has 7 home games this year, dropping to 5.

The only thing I disagree with is that people think the lesser conferences will have nowhere to go for TV rights. ESPN, CBS Sports, NBC Sports, Fox Sports, you name it are always in dire need of programming. Ohio football will still get on TV. Now, will the contracts be the same? Probably not, but I'm not naive enough to think that the MAC and other conferences will be dropped from TV altogether.

That is, unless the NCAA somehow restricts the lesser divisions' TV rights now that they've given complete control to the Big 5.

It's actually quite ingenious what the NCAA has done. They've controlled a sport for the better part of half a century and created one of the most popular sports in America by not paying their labor force, in turn, generating billions of dollars. For a while I think I always knew college football was going to shift towards a semi-pro farm system for the NFL. The rules of the league and the draft are set up that way. Watch your boys on Saturday become future stars of Sunday. But the fact that a college was tied to that particular team made it more interesting to the consumer.

Paul Daugherty had an interesting take in today's Enquirer about it.

http://www.cincinnati.com/story/daugherty-blog/2014/08/07.../

I'm actually in agreement with it. But not for all of college football. Let the Big 5 do their own thing and write new rules for the other conferences. Rules that make sense instead of the garbage in the Bylaws they have now.

I'm more interested to see what is going to happen with the NCAA Tournament in basketball. Since there are so many more teams that can qualify for the tournament, how in the heck are those five conferences going to kick the other 200+ teams out?

Philip Roth once wrote: “No sense carrying dreams of Tahiti in your head if you can’t afford the fare.”

Ohio and other mid-majors were trying to win a carnival game that was rigged against them from the start.

If that's the only reason they play non-P5 teams, there will be no more 1-1 deals for the G-5. Also, there is no particular reason those money games need to go to the G-5. The P-5 could jump right over them and play FCS teams for their extra home games, and the FCS teams will probably do it for less.

The emperor has no clothes. Sooner or later, everyone will realize it.

Unfortunately, I think Bill Paxton is gonna be right.