I'm not a fan of ESPN but this was an interesting article mostly due to the fact that Beamer supposedly voted for it. Definitely surprised me. Check it out.
http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/11320309/majority-power-f...
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They already kicked an entire conference out of "power" status. What more do they want?
I bet Mike London voted against it after what Oregon did to his team last year: 59-10.
Nope, even better. He's "undecided". Just like he's undecided about when to use a timeout, undecided about who should be quarterback, etc.
Was "YOU" an option?
i heard he wrote-in on his vote "i vote YES for 4 timeouts per half"
Mike London was undecided? What a shock. He's still trying to figure out if he should call time out against BYU.
London is still waiting for the call to come down to the field.
Aren't we currently required by the state legislature to play the small in-state schools every few years for their revenue purposes?
Currently, yes. But things change...
If this were to come to light, it would be a few years. I can almost see a 64 team "league", well, maybe division is a better word, of the upper football teams. The problem is the $$$$ the lower schools would lose by either not playing the bigger boys or the tv revenue. Imagine if Wake wasn't a part of this, how much they would stand to lose by not sharing tv and bowl revenue from the ACC, if they weren't part of the 64.
Beamer voted for it in hopes that we wouldn't have to play ECU anymore.
Maybe requiring at least one power 5 team as one of your OOC games.
I actually bet this isn't far off.
ECU is a good team but not in a power conference. These guys are never an auto win. It's a risk every year in that a win gains us nothing in polls but a loss would kill ranking.
ECU is too big a risk for the payoff.
I'm happy Beamer voted yes. It shows he really does still have that competitiveness and that despite what Jim Weaver thought, he does not like playing ECU. I also find it funny how ALL NC schools voted no
I don't know about this solution but I would definitely get behind all division 1 (or fbs or whatever they call it now) opponents, no more playing the little fish and getting 7 or 8 homegames a year. Looking at you SEC...
Man the formatting is painful. This is much easier to look at.
Big 12?
Woops, I guess Big 10 and Big 12 ran together on me. Not going to go back and fix it now.
Does Beamer know that ECU is not in a "Power Conference?"
Pretty sure that was all set up by the "great" Jim Weaver.
Passing the Autonomy Proposal is Step 1
This would be Step 2
The eventual goal is very, very clearly to have the Power 5 conferences break away from the rest and form their own closed door division. Have to admit, only 10 years later, we should be VERY glad Weaver got us in the ACC.
I think that credit goes to Mark Warner
The man behind the curtain: Bill Goodwin
Chip Kelly voted "No". Gee... I wonder why, since Notre Dame is not in a Power 5 conference. ESPN basically asked him if he wanted to go play with himself.
Edit: Oops, I meant Brain Kelly. I'm not fixing it since it would make Alum07's comment make less sense.
Damn, ESPN must not think the Philadelphia Eagles are going to be very good if they're asking the coach which level of collegiate quality he'd rather play.
(boy I really bungled the grammar on this one...)
"yea the NFC is strong this year, but do they have SEC Speed?"
This isn't going to help all that talk about Chip running a "college offense"
More like forcing their hand to join the ACC in football as they are in all other sports.
He didn't want to kill the ND Navy game. If Navy was in a power conference, his vote might change.
If this passes every AD. in the country will be on the phone trying to schedule Loluva.
A lot of the teams that voted "yes" currently have FCS teams on their schedule, if you really want to play all FBS power 5 teams, then why not schedule only FBS power 5 teams... maybe I'm missing something
Many schedules are set YEARS in advance.
See the ECU series with us, as well as the in-state play around of JMU, W&M, etc.
I realize the schedules are made in advance, and there are probably a handful of Big East teams that were in a power conference at once point but are no longer in a power conference, and a few teams (Louisville for ex) that got into a power conference that weren't prior... but outside those possible few teams, the power conference teams have been pretty set for quite a while.. if those are the teams you wanna play, you don't have to wait until a vote to schedule them
This dance requires two willing partners.....not all P5 teams want a full schedule of P5 teams, so scheduling becomes tricky.
CPJ and NC State voted no, color me surprised. I think it is a rare year when GT and NC State don't have 2 FCS schools on the schedule.