What're they going to do, not being able to play 8 home games? 

Hopefully they cut out more of the non-Ohio MAC schools, and keep the Ohio ones in the rotation.

I understand not wanting to play 2 a year, and generally made fun of them when they did.

If OSU and other FBS programs decide to strengthen their non-conf schedules, it will require some creativity.  I say that because of the number of games FBS/1A teams are playing this season against FCS/1-AA and Transitional teams.

This seaon:

SEC teams are playing 14 FCS teams and 2 Ts (Transitional)

For the Big 10 it's 8 FCS teams and 2 Ts

For the Big 12 it's 9 FCS teams and 1 T

For the ACC it's 13 FCS teams and 1 T

For the PAC 12 it's 9 FCS teams

For the Big East it's 9 FCS teams

For the Mountain West it's 9 FCS teams and 2 Ts

For Conference USA it's 6 FCS teams and 2 Ts

For the four indy teams it's 3 FCS teams and 1 T

For the MAC it's 11 FCS teams and, chiefly because of UMass, 8 Ts

For the WAC it's 9 FCS teams and 13 Ts

For the Sun Belt it's 7 FCS teams and 9 Ts

Do the addition and the totals are 107 games against FCS teams and another 42 against Ts (which of course were themselves FCS teams).

As much as I would love to beat OSU, going undefeated is the true money maker.

This is just as much an indictment of the B1G as it is anything else. When they go to a 9 game conference schedule, they will need help from OOC games to get over the hump because the conference slate will hold up like 10-year-old underpants.

At that point I won't watch another D-1, or whatever they will call themselves, game again.  Hopefully whatever division Ohio is relegated to has a full-blown playoff.

This isn't right.  The NCAA has 3 divisions and has had that for a long, long time.  You have to play all of your sports in the same division.  Division 1AA has nothing to do with Division 2 and never has.  Division 2 is the same entity that it has been for about 40 or 50 years.  1AA or FCS has been a subdivision of Division 1 (just like 1A or FBS) and only existing in football since about 1977.  Division 1 split into 2 subdivisions that are both still part of Division 1 in football.  Its the highest revenue and highest expense sport.  Not every school that plays sports in Division 1 can afford 80 football scholarships.  So 1AA (now called Division 1 Football Championship Subdivision or FCS) is a higher division offering more scholarships in football than Division 2 football and made entirely of schools that simply play in "Division 1" in every other sport.  They just have less scholarships in football than 1A or FBS and play in the Division 1 NCAA Football tournament rather than the bowls.

Division 3 is non-scholarship sports
Division 2 is limited scholarship sports (non-major)
Division 1 is major college sports.

Division 1 conferences used to be often referred with high-major, mid-major, and low major monikers.  For football high majors would be the BCS AQ leagues.  Mid majors are the others in the Football Bowl Subdivison (1A BCS non-AQ  - MAC, CUSA, WAC, MWC, Sunbelt).  Low-major in football would have referred to 1AA or FCS.

To me the terms mid-major and low-major are going away.  A 10-15 years ago you could have thought of mid-major conferences in a sport as those that the champion was going to be in at-large in the NCAA tournament in that sport most years rather it won the conference tournament or not and low-major as the true one bid leagues.  But there are so few of these bids now.  You are pretty much going to be a "have" in the B10, B12, P12, SEC, ACC or you aren't.  The Big East may be left to straddle the line.  People talk about parity but it is going away.  Quality Programs outside the 5 high-major leagues are going to be rare.  Boise State is one in football.  Gonzaga is one in basketball.  We are making progress toward that in both sports.  But it isn't going to be easy.

At some point the BCS schools will break off and be a minor league for the NFL in football. Those layers would have no classroom affiliation with the schools. I doubt Ohio will be able to afford that in any manner.

I'm not that broken up about it.

There are kids on campus, now, that receive scholarships..

Sometimes they have so many scholarships that it litterally puts cash in their pockets, too. My buddy Geoff had enough left over after our freshman year that he bought a mini pickup truck, new.

-john

 

I am totally OK with the biggest revenue schools admitting that they are running a business, respecting monopoly and labor laws, and paying the players worth what they are worth on the open market.  Then they would be employees rather than students.  They would be on campus most of the time but would only need to attend class if they wanted.  Now, its just another entity in a sports entertainment business.  Heck, if Kentucky Basketball wants to blow its was by signing LeBron James then so be it.  Only about 20 or 30 schools could possibly do this.  Most of the corruption that is taking the student out of student athlete go away for the rest of college sports at that point.  I would consider this to be a good thing for student athletics in general - Even if it gets less exposure.  Those that love their school would still be there.  We would all still be here.

In fact, THIS, along with the NCAA increasing penalties about 5 fold, are the two possible ways that student athletics starts going back to what it is supposed to be.

However, you know that there are ADs out there that know that they could reduce competitiveness to almost as few teams by setting a rule that a $5000 stipend is allowed.  This is a drop in the bucket for Ohio State, Texas, and Florida but kills even some of the AQ conference program's recruiting.  I'd say that THIS is the thing that could do the most to increase corruption.  It just further blurs the line as to what college athletics are and makes cheating that much easier to cover up.  This is almost the worst possible world and hopefully State governments and the Federal government would not stand for a change like that without significantly altering how it looks at them with respect to taxes, monopoly laws, and labor laws.  At some point you have to admit that you are running a business rather than a school.

 

Does your local high school exist to make money?  Maybe I should specify a "For Profit"

While most schools have all of their sports in the same division, there are exceptions (all the ones I can think of off the top of my head are hockey).
Merrimack, St. Lawrence, Mercyhurst, Lake Superior St., Ferris St., Alaska, Alaska-Fairbanks, Alabama-Huntsville, St. Cloud St., Minnesota St., Bemidji St., Minn.-Duluth, pretty much all of Atlantic Hockey like Bentley, AIC.