"What do the G5 Conferences do?" My brutally honest opinion: The G5 should just break away from the P5 first and crown their own National Champion with their own tournament. Corporations and TV stations are dictating which colleges should be National Champion caliber. If ESPN and FOX are so determined to have their Georgia/Alabama/Ohio State/Michigan, etc. type of Corporate National Champion, then the G5 should be able to crown their own People's National Champion. (In other words, let there be 2 different championship belts, so to speak. Let one side acknowledge one champion, and let the other side acknowledge the other champion.)
Ardent UTSA supporter here. If you look at last few years, this is the same story. Traylor was offered Texas Tech job but leveraged it into a substantial raise and more money for assistants. I think he doing the same thing to ensure that facility projects relevant to football are prioritized and continued investment in staff salary. UTSA lost back to back OCs (Barry Lynne’s Jr to Illinois, Will Stein to Oregon) and he has been adamant in his stance to retain coaching. Behind the scenes this seems like this is the push from UTSA administration to keep Traylor happy. Everything thing I have heard sounds like Traylor is not motivated by money or fame. His wife and him love San Antonio and it’s not hard to believe that he wants to stay. As a fan, I don’t want him to leave but there is still a possibility that the administration and booster promises will not be enough and he leaves for team like A&M and/or Baylor. If he does leave, the buyout and attractiveness of a job like UTSA still has my hopes high for this program.
The AAC needs to fortify themselves the be the top G5. Add Liberty, James Madison, Appalachian State and Georgia State. Be the G5 Superconference to be on par or above the PAC/MWC
I hate it all. There has been a slow erosion of college football that started with Title IX which put pressure on university athletic directors to fund different sports that drew no interest from the alumni. Why do people even watch college football anyhow? There are two main categories of consumers - the alumni who support their school through patronage of college sports as a way of reconnecting with a different time in their life. These are the tradition consumers. Then there are those who have no connection to the school and are strictly into consuming college sports for entertainment and identity. The alumni drove college football/sports for well over a century, but now the entertainment viewer is supplanting the traditionalist. College ADs were driven to court the entertainment viewer to satisfy Title IX and now in a Bud Light moment, they will lose their base market of traditionalists to gain more entertainment viewers. I'm a traditonalist viewer from the PAC-12, which no longer exists; this is the last season I am watching CFB. After this season I'm done because my reason to watch college football no longer exists.
I am unfamiliar with the particular litigation that you and Altimore discussed. Perhaps, that might be resolved by an insurance policy, or some sort contribution or indemnity agreement, but it's really too complex to discuss intelligently without a more precise statement of facts. Hopefully all schools are advised of the situation and the possibilities going forward.
House vs NCAA Here’s the article link I referenced (I just realized I didn’t put it in the description) sports.yahoo.com/is-college-athletics-headed-for-the-great-split-we-need-to-recreate-or-relaunch-the-ncaa-160523061.html
It’s almost certainly the case that Traylor was turned down for the A&M job, not that he turned down the A&M job. That’s why he’s doing that win win stuff. Otherwise he would Dan Lanning this and come out and strongly deny from the jump if he turned them down. And eventually he will be hired away, probably by Arkansas, because he fits the profile of that program and he knows the territory and the ceiling he could reach there is way higher than Texas tech. He hasn’t had any moment that ever says: I will not leave ever. But him leaving utsa could help them even more, look what Sonny dykes leaving did for smu!
@@MA-jh8we Arkansas is a way higher tier job than Texas tech. They can pay you more. You’re in the SEC. And they’ll give you the time to build because they’re an under resourced program in the conference.
@@MA-jh8we I don’t think you understand. Texas tech, Baylor, Houston..these are the bottom of the middle of the power five. Arkansas(especially), Mississippi, Kentucky, Mississippi state, these are jobs at the top of the middle of the P5. There’s a chasm between the ceilings at those places if you’re a qualified coach and what can be done at Texas tech. It’s not the same. Also, they were pretty competitive under Nutt and Petrino lol
I feel like the P5 conferences splitting off are basically semi-pro at this point. All of the schools that aren't included are now the face of "college football." I would hope that all the remaining schools that aren't included in the P5 split refuses to schedule the schools that break off from the NCAA. It would actually be fun (to me) to see some of the G5 schools become powerhouses in the new college football, lol.
The context of the interview was a win win meaning if there is fear of him leaving it gets the boosters butts in gear raising money. He also mentioned that if you really know him you know he has stayed at a school for a very long time and building a powerful program with top facilities. He said his record should speak for itself. He loves San Antonio and wants to continue to coach in San Antonio. He truly wants to build a CFP championship level program at UTSA.
