Can we also start with those stupid development booklets they send out? Just fine with getting a pdf version. Those things cost a boatload then from on-campus printing, and cost twice as much now. It's gonna be funny when university departments quit using each other because of the "inflated rates" they created for each other

One reason we have to play so many D2 teams is that the "P" teams are playing more conference games because most of them have so many teams. There are 15 in the ACC for b-ball, 14 in the SEC and B10. They're now going to 20 conference games (I think the SEC starts it next season) and even some of the mid-majors and small majors are playing 20. They're even playing conference games in early December. Their availabilities are limited.

As for travel budgets, unfortunately I think the 110's travel will be cut back as well, even though they're a great ambassador for the school.

The Sun Belt, CUSA and SEC all being down south have a different approach to football. NASCAR and Football are king down south. Maybe the MAC should consider playing two more league games in basketball?

Athletics, especially in the south is key to fundraising for many universities. Any crisis (including a pandemic) is a cleansing agent for any industry. Look at how many car manufacturers there were before the depression. The most successful and those with the greatest funding survive any crisis.

One missing element not mentioned here is the rebound effect from any crisis. We lost 116,000 men to battle wounds and illness during World War I. We lost 675,000 civilians back home to the 1918-19 Pandemic (keep in mind the US has grown 3.5x what it was then.) It would be like losing more than 2 million today. Yet, a few short years later the Roaring 20s brought the greatest expansion the US economy had ever seen, at that point in our history.

Those universities that are economic viable will get stronger, and as extension of that, so will their athletic programs, not because they will get more funding, but they will not sustain the types of cuts that are coming to non-Power schools, especially MAC and Mountain West schools, as well as few American Conference schools. It is not that basketball is immune, but the overheard for it isn't as big a drain as is D1 football.

Depends on how “south” you go. Here in North Carolina they consider football a nuisance one must endure to get to basketball season.

Read today that the NCAA denied the petition by the Group of 5 conferences to waive the requirement for a minimum number of sports to be Div. I. Said that those requests would have to be looked at individually.

I am not sure why people are talking about which conference to join...I would assume the entire conference would simply become FCS for football but go together and remain the MAC. Many conferences (Missouri Valley, Ivy, etc.) are like this.

My problem is there are already over 120 FCS teams. If the MAC and other non-P5 conferences join, it will be way too big (it's already too big).

I think a new division needs created of non-P5 conferences and pull up a few FCS conferences so both we create 3 divisions all with around 75 teams. I'd consider breaking up D2 (164 teams) & D3 (250 teams) as well based loosely on region. End up with about 8 divisions of a similar size. In a sport like footnall where you can only play about a dozen games a year, it is really dumb to have hundreds of teams in a single division.

8 NCAA divisions huh? Why don’t we give them all a trophy 🏆

so true.

and not from fans in seats, but culture on campus perspective, baseball is more passionate than football.

I was talking about the SEC footprint minus UK. The interesting thing too is that come "bowl season" they root for each others teams unlike some big 10 teams.

Conor Morris to something called Report for America.

If he's working for the Cle.com sweatshop, he'll be living poverty in Cleveland. A horrible organization.

So, FBs football plays exactly 10% of the DI membership. DI basketball plays less, but to you that’s ok? Oh the irony here.