You've made a LOT of terrible posts over the years, but this one is in a league of it's own.
$2000 - $3000/month is a lot more discretionary income than around 80% of Americans. These kids are living "large", which is going to distract them even more from preparing for life after football. Now that money is involved, kicking these kids to the curb after they've served their useful purpose won't feel so bad.
o line & qb a few in the secondary and d line and a steady foot on special teams. decent lbs, rbs, wrs and tes are relatively a dime a dozen when it comes to appropriating limited nil funds
these funds would have already existed to some extent had we beat usa, illinois and gata in 2014 and donors had some sort of floor for the program moving forward but that never happened
Not sure I agree with or even understand all of what you just said, but it no longer matters what happened or didn’t happen in 2014. We can’t change the past. All that matters now is whether Texas State can attract the necessary resources going forward to be relevant in the new major college football world — at least at the level Coastal and Louisiana have been the last couple of years. Under the new system, that’s inconceivable to me. But I would love to be able to say in five years that I was dead wrong. Meanwhile, I’ll just hope we can find a way to be competitive in what will be the new second tier — a tier even further behind than the G5 is compared to the P5 today. FBS seems to be racing toward something like the split between DI and DI-AA in the late ‘70s, formally or informally.
I don’t think G5 will fall further behind and my reason is that there aren’t more schools and the amount of players is a about the same. There are guys who will want to play FBS ball without NIL because it’s the best shot they got at a possible NFL career and they just don’t have offers at a P5.
I really hope you’re right. But I’m not optimistic. I think G5 players who do well will get poached by a school with a good payroll. G5 could become just entry level for players who didn’t initially get an offer from a high-paying school. We likely won’t see a Cincinnati breakthrough season again. And I doubt a Coastal or Louisiana will sniff a Top 25 spot again in 5-10 years. The talent separation will be too big.
On the plus side, the Sun Belt has a very bright future within the G5 subdivision. Any decision about moving up or down within different platforms will more than likely be done at the conference level. The SBC-East is already as strong as anything in the G5, the SBC-West needs a few years to catch up but once they do the Sun Belt champion will be competing for one of the NY6 bowls. I just hope that TXST becomes a net positive help for the conference. I would hate for us to be in the bottom riding everyone's coat tails.
I think you’re mostly right that the Sun Belt has a bright future in the G5 subdivision. But once the talent separation grows to a certain point, schools in the G5 subdivision will never be in a NY6 bowl. Those bowls will be reserved for the power division. After all, a big reason for all this change is that the elite schools think they’ve been carrying everyone else financially (because they’re the big draw). They don’t want to share anymore. They will monopolize the major bowls. In fact, those bowls will probably be their expanded playoff. What’s happening now isn’t just a minor reshuffling. The disruption will be total before this is over.
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