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Message: [QUOTE="HRE Otto IV, post: 4252226, member: 5685"] So if there is a FPS (Football Pro Subdivision), FBS, and FCS and only the Top 30ish programs are going to the FPS, I think I rather be in FBS. But if 60ish are going then I want SU to go too. With a 30 or so FPS, the ACC wouldn't go away. There still would be a decent TV contract too, It wouldn't be as much money but it would be more than enough to sustain a program. Something like what the B12 will get their next contract. These networks still need content. And we would have a chance to be competitively nationally. I would hope though that the FBS would cut out the bottom programs who don't belong. If they made the minimum requirement 50k attendance for FPS and 25k for FBS, that would give you about 50 or so FBS teams and cut out the bottom 40 or so. IMO 134 teams is too many in a sport dominated by funding. Let the top 25-30% go FPS, the bottom 25-30% go down to FCS, and let the middle 40-50% be FBS. Likely FBS ACC IMO: BC, SU, Pitt, Notre Dame, Wake, NC State, UNC, Duke, UVA, GA Tech Not a bad 10 team league. The question here is what does the B1G do? Does it keep an FBS league for the schools like Minnesota, Illinois, Northwestern, Indiana, Purdue, Maryland, Rutgers? Then they would need to add 3 more schools to get to Ten. Which would likely come from Kansas, Notre Dame, Pitt, SU, BC, UVA, UNC, Duke, or Vandy. So the ACC might have to back fill from Vandy, UConn, Temple, Cincy, UCF, or USF. I could see FPS being a 5 team ACC, a 5 team B12, a 5 team P12, a 10 team B1G (2 divisions), and a 15 team SEC (3 divisions). That gives you 40 teams. Then you can have an FBS made up of a 10 team ACC, B12, P12, B1G, and AAC. That gives you 50 teams. The remaining 44 schools go down to FCS, or even create a 4th division and pull up the best FCS schools. So an FCS-A and an FCS-AA. Maybe 8 conferences of 10 in FCS-A (80 teams), and in FCS-AA 10 conferences of 10 (100 teams). Which means 2 schools need to drop down to D2. It would be nice for this all to finally end. Just make a decision already with what makes up D1 football, and let the conferences make up their mind already about the makeup. Can't wait for conference expansion to be done. [/QUOTE]

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