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Re: App Transfer Portal 2025 - IN

Unread post by 311neers » Tue Jan 21, 2025 12:36 pm

AppSt94 wrote:
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Best team money can buy .
They spent their money wisely. 10 of the 11 starters were homegrown with Caleb Downs the only portal acquisition from Alabama. They spent their money largely on retention of current players. Obviously that’s not going to happen at App but it’s the right model if you want consistency.
Howard and Judkins were transfers. I agree they do recruit well, usually just can’t get over the hump but some of those transfers helped.

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Unread post by BambooRdApp » Tue Jan 21, 2025 12:44 pm

Seattleapp wrote:
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MrCraig wrote:
Tue Jan 21, 2025 11:36 am
BambooRdApp wrote:
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Seattleapp wrote:
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EXACTLY!!!! The transfer portal has created more pairity across CFB than ever. The best players go to where the best money is, the good players go to where they can play and the bad players washout.

I do think the next evoloution is contract terms/limits...This will alow for programs to "build" via grass roots as before but also give the freedom we have now. Likely 2 year contracts for incoming freshman where they are compenstated based on playing time. Once the 2 years is up players/schools can resign or hit the portal. JRs & SRs get 1 year deals with compensation based on playing time. I also see a cap on free transfers and a term limit on eligiblity but I'm not sure how the leagality of that will work.
Boy that’s not true at all. Ohio state more than proved that tonight
Not sure one game is a testament to parity of CFB this season. It seems that we had quite a bit of parity during the regular season. I did not see one team that was overly dominant all year. OSU lost to Michigan during the regular season. Something clicked for them after that loss.
100% this. Look at the final top 25 of the season. SMU, Arizona State, Colorado, Ole Miss, Indiana, Illinois, UNLV are all teams that have been pretty terrible the last 10-20 years but have risen to prominence thanks to NIL and the transfer portal.
I agree with your examples. I’ll be interested moving forward to see if any schools like the ones you mentioned can make the title game, much less win it. There is still a huge chasm between those schools and the usual suspects with endless money.
Yes, agree to certain extent...but we seemed to have the same schools periodically in the final four. Bana, Gawgia, LSU, Ohio State....then periodically ND, Kansas st, some others.
However, it seemed the mainstays are always there in some form or fashion.

Not sure how it will play out in the future. One would think money would win. So, now Texas gets is in the group with OSU, etc. Maybe lsu falls out of no deep pockets. So, long term maybe it will play out. But the idea of having the next SMU, boise st, or whomever... getting a chance in the playoffs ..is pretty cool in my book .even if they lose. With old sue system, no g5 team is getting in period unless they beat a good P5 team (Cincy over ND). Although I believe the group team should have to play a difficult nonconference schedule to be considered, at least we getting a shot. Before, very rarely.
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Re: App Transfer Portal 2025 - IN

Unread post by AppSt94 » Tue Jan 21, 2025 12:46 pm

311neers wrote:
Tue Jan 21, 2025 12:36 pm
AppSt94 wrote:
Tue Jan 21, 2025 8:04 am
Stonewall wrote:
Tue Jan 21, 2025 8:00 am
Best team money can buy .
They spent their money wisely. 10 of the 11 starters were homegrown with Caleb Downs the only portal acquisition from Alabama. They spent their money largely on retention of current players. Obviously that’s not going to happen at App but it’s the right model if you want consistency.
Howard and Judkins were transfers. I agree they do recruit well, usually just can’t get over the hump but some of those transfers helped.
I was referencing the defense and my point being that they spent their money in retention and not buying a roster.

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Re: App Transfer Portal 2025 - IN

Unread post by Seattleapp » Tue Jan 21, 2025 12:51 pm

BambooRdApp wrote:
Tue Jan 21, 2025 12:44 pm
Seattleapp wrote:
Tue Jan 21, 2025 12:00 pm
MrCraig wrote:
Tue Jan 21, 2025 11:36 am
BambooRdApp wrote:
Tue Jan 21, 2025 7:46 am
Seattleapp wrote:
Tue Jan 21, 2025 12:01 am


Boy that’s not true at all. Ohio state more than proved that tonight
Not sure one game is a testament to parity of CFB this season. It seems that we had quite a bit of parity during the regular season. I did not see one team that was overly dominant all year. OSU lost to Michigan during the regular season. Something clicked for them after that loss.
100% this. Look at the final top 25 of the season. SMU, Arizona State, Colorado, Ole Miss, Indiana, Illinois, UNLV are all teams that have been pretty terrible the last 10-20 years but have risen to prominence thanks to NIL and the transfer portal.
I agree with your examples. I’ll be interested moving forward to see if any schools like the ones you mentioned can make the title game, much less win it. There is still a huge chasm between those schools and the usual suspects with endless money.
Yes, agree to certain extent...but we seemed to have the same schools periodically in the final four. Bana, Gawgia, LSU, Ohio State....then periodically ND, Kansas st, some others.
However, it seemed the mainstays are always there in some form or fashion.

Not sure how it will play out in the future. One would think money would win. So, now Texas gets is in the group with OSU, etc. Maybe lsu falls out of no deep pockets. So, long term maybe it will play out. But the idea of having the next SMU, boise st, or whomever... getting a chance in the playoffs ..is pretty cool in my book .even if they lose. With old sue system, no g5 team is getting in period unless they beat a good P5 team (Cincy over ND). Although I believe the group team should have to play a difficult nonconference schedule to be considered, at least we getting a shot. Before, very rarely.
Yeah it’s always gonna be the same 5 schools in the playoffs. And let’s be honest, they smu’s and Indiana’s while fun stories were kicked around in the playoff. I love having 12 teams, but I feel like at the end of the day unexpected teams will have great regular seasons then get crushed in the playoffs by the usual cast of characters. I don’t know how anyone can fix schools just out spending other schools

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Re: App Transfer Portal 2025 - IN

Unread post by BambooRdApp » Tue Jan 21, 2025 12:53 pm

Seattleapp wrote:
Tue Jan 21, 2025 12:51 pm
BambooRdApp wrote:
Tue Jan 21, 2025 12:44 pm
Seattleapp wrote:
Tue Jan 21, 2025 12:00 pm
MrCraig wrote:
Tue Jan 21, 2025 11:36 am
BambooRdApp wrote:
Tue Jan 21, 2025 7:46 am

Not sure one game is a testament to parity of CFB this season. It seems that we had quite a bit of parity during the regular season. I did not see one team that was overly dominant all year. OSU lost to Michigan during the regular season. Something clicked for them after that loss.
100% this. Look at the final top 25 of the season. SMU, Arizona State, Colorado, Ole Miss, Indiana, Illinois, UNLV are all teams that have been pretty terrible the last 10-20 years but have risen to prominence thanks to NIL and the transfer portal.
I agree with your examples. I’ll be interested moving forward to see if any schools like the ones you mentioned can make the title game, much less win it. There is still a huge chasm between those schools and the usual suspects with endless money.
Yes, agree to certain extent...but we seemed to have the same schools periodically in the final four. Bana, Gawgia, LSU, Ohio State....then periodically ND, Kansas st, some others.
However, it seemed the mainstays are always there in some form or fashion.

Not sure how it will play out in the future. One would think money would win. So, now Texas gets is in the group with OSU, etc. Maybe lsu falls out of no deep pockets. So, long term maybe it will play out. But the idea of having the next SMU, boise st, or whomever... getting a chance in the playoffs ..is pretty cool in my book .even if they lose. With old sue system, no g5 team is getting in period unless they beat a good P5 team (Cincy over ND). Although I believe the group team should have to play a difficult nonconference schedule to be considered, at least we getting a shot. Before, very rarely.
Yeah it’s always gonna be the same 5 schools in the playoffs. And let’s be honest, they smu’s and Indiana’s while fun stories were kicked around in the playoff. I love having 12 teams, but I feel like at the end of the day unexpected teams will have great regular seasons then get crushed in the playoffs by the usual cast of characters. I don’t know how anyone can fix schools just out spending other schools
Agreed. Need salary cap or some other structure in place. Now, wild, wild West
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Re: App Transfer Portal 2025 - IN

Unread post by AppSt94 » Tue Jan 21, 2025 1:06 pm

BambooRdApp wrote:
Tue Jan 21, 2025 12:53 pm
Seattleapp wrote:
Tue Jan 21, 2025 12:51 pm
BambooRdApp wrote:
Tue Jan 21, 2025 12:44 pm
Seattleapp wrote:
Tue Jan 21, 2025 12:00 pm
MrCraig wrote:
Tue Jan 21, 2025 11:36 am


100% this. Look at the final top 25 of the season. SMU, Arizona State, Colorado, Ole Miss, Indiana, Illinois, UNLV are all teams that have been pretty terrible the last 10-20 years but have risen to prominence thanks to NIL and the transfer portal.
I agree with your examples. I’ll be interested moving forward to see if any schools like the ones you mentioned can make the title game, much less win it. There is still a huge chasm between those schools and the usual suspects with endless money.
Yes, agree to certain extent...but we seemed to have the same schools periodically in the final four. Bana, Gawgia, LSU, Ohio State....then periodically ND, Kansas st, some others.
However, it seemed the mainstays are always there in some form or fashion.

Not sure how it will play out in the future. One would think money would win. So, now Texas gets is in the group with OSU, etc. Maybe lsu falls out of no deep pockets. So, long term maybe it will play out. But the idea of having the next SMU, boise st, or whomever... getting a chance in the playoffs ..is pretty cool in my book .even if they lose. With old sue system, no g5 team is getting in period unless they beat a good P5 team (Cincy over ND). Although I believe the group team should have to play a difficult nonconference schedule to be considered, at least we getting a shot. Before, very rarely.
Yeah it’s always gonna be the same 5 schools in the playoffs. And let’s be honest, they smu’s and Indiana’s while fun stories were kicked around in the playoff. I love having 12 teams, but I feel like at the end of the day unexpected teams will have great regular seasons then get crushed in the playoffs by the usual cast of characters. I don’t know how anyone can fix schools just out spending other schools
Agreed. Need salary cap or some other structure in place. Now, wild, wild West
Hopefully Title IX levels some of the field.

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Re: App Transfer Portal 2025 - IN

Unread post by AppWyo » Tue Jan 21, 2025 4:08 pm

BambooRdApp wrote:
Tue Jan 21, 2025 12:53 pm
Seattleapp wrote:
Tue Jan 21, 2025 12:51 pm
BambooRdApp wrote:
Tue Jan 21, 2025 12:44 pm
Seattleapp wrote:
Tue Jan 21, 2025 12:00 pm
MrCraig wrote:
Tue Jan 21, 2025 11:36 am


100% this. Look at the final top 25 of the season. SMU, Arizona State, Colorado, Ole Miss, Indiana, Illinois, UNLV are all teams that have been pretty terrible the last 10-20 years but have risen to prominence thanks to NIL and the transfer portal.
I agree with your examples. I’ll be interested moving forward to see if any schools like the ones you mentioned can make the title game, much less win it. There is still a huge chasm between those schools and the usual suspects with endless money.
Yes, agree to certain extent...but we seemed to have the same schools periodically in the final four. Bana, Gawgia, LSU, Ohio State....then periodically ND, Kansas st, some others.
However, it seemed the mainstays are always there in some form or fashion.

Not sure how it will play out in the future. One would think money would win. So, now Texas gets is in the group with OSU, etc. Maybe lsu falls out of no deep pockets. So, long term maybe it will play out. But the idea of having the next SMU, boise st, or whomever... getting a chance in the playoffs ..is pretty cool in my book .even if they lose. With old sue system, no g5 team is getting in period unless they beat a good P5 team (Cincy over ND). Although I believe the group team should have to play a difficult nonconference schedule to be considered, at least we getting a shot. Before, very rarely.
Yeah it’s always gonna be the same 5 schools in the playoffs. And let’s be honest, they smu’s and Indiana’s while fun stories were kicked around in the playoff. I love having 12 teams, but I feel like at the end of the day unexpected teams will have great regular seasons then get crushed in the playoffs by the usual cast of characters. I don’t know how anyone can fix schools just out spending other schools
Agreed. Need salary cap or some other structure in place. Now, wild, wild West
Why do they need a salary cap? The more they spend on a few players the less they have to spend on everyone else.

SMU and Indiana were not kicked around as much as some of the schools that made the playoffs were.

Schools like Notre Dame and SMU have unlimited budgets.

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Re: App Transfer Portal 2025 - IN

Unread post by spacemonkey » Tue Jan 21, 2025 4:23 pm

I wish the g5 would start a NIT with a bye for the g5 CFP rep in the first two rounds. 20 team NIT 8 play the first two weekends. Conference champions get bye to the second weekend. If CFP rep gets beat in first round they move into the NIT. I would like playoff football again at App.

Something like this.

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Unread post by spacemonkey » Tue Jan 21, 2025 4:26 pm

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I wish the g5 would start a NIT with a bye for the g5 CFP rep in the first two rounds. 20 team NIT 8 play the first two weekends. Conference champions get bye to the second weekend. If CFP rep gets beat in first round they move into the NIT. I would like playoff football again at App.

Something like this. This should be NIT for all FBS teams that want to participate. Higher seed hosts like FCS

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Unread post by t4pizza » Tue Jan 21, 2025 4:50 pm

spacemonkey wrote:
Tue Jan 21, 2025 4:23 pm
I wish the g5 would start a NIT with a bye for the g5 CFP rep in the first two rounds. 20 team NIT 8 play the first two weekends. Conference champions get bye to the second weekend. If CFP rep gets beat in first round they move into the NIT. I would like playoff football again at App.

Something like this.
This would essentially put 5 FBS conferences back to FCS obscurity. It may be on the horizon but I am in no hurry to get there. Once there is a shift away from the power conferences, the rest will just become relative unknowns again. I am not saying that the fans can't still enjoy the product, lord knows most of us enjoyed 1-AA/FCS, I am saying that all the coverage that we have become accustomed to will disappear rather quickly. There will be little to no interest in a G5 playoff outside of the fan bases, just like FCS, DII, DII, etc.

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Re: App Transfer Portal 2025 - IN

Unread post by AppWyo » Tue Jan 21, 2025 5:31 pm

t4pizza wrote:
Tue Jan 21, 2025 4:50 pm
spacemonkey wrote:
Tue Jan 21, 2025 4:23 pm
I wish the g5 would start a NIT with a bye for the g5 CFP rep in the first two rounds. 20 team NIT 8 play the first two weekends. Conference champions get bye to the second weekend. If CFP rep gets beat in first round they move into the NIT. I would like playoff football again at App.

Something like this.
This would essentially put 5 FBS conferences back to FCS obscurity. It may be on the horizon but I am in no hurry to get there. Once there is a shift away from the power conferences, the rest will just become relative unknowns again. I am not saying that the fans can't still enjoy the product, lord knows most of us enjoyed 1-AA/FCS, I am saying that all the coverage that we have become accustomed to will disappear rather quickly. There will be little to no interest in a G5 playoff outside of the fan bases, just like FCS, DII, DII, etc.
This is the honest truth...

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Re: App Transfer Portal 2025 - IN

Unread post by MrCraig » Tue Jan 21, 2025 6:23 pm

Seattleapp wrote:
Tue Jan 21, 2025 12:51 pm
BambooRdApp wrote:
Tue Jan 21, 2025 12:44 pm
Seattleapp wrote:
Tue Jan 21, 2025 12:00 pm
MrCraig wrote:
Tue Jan 21, 2025 11:36 am
BambooRdApp wrote:
Tue Jan 21, 2025 7:46 am

Not sure one game is a testament to parity of CFB this season. It seems that we had quite a bit of parity during the regular season. I did not see one team that was overly dominant all year. OSU lost to Michigan during the regular season. Something clicked for them after that loss.
100% this. Look at the final top 25 of the season. SMU, Arizona State, Colorado, Ole Miss, Indiana, Illinois, UNLV are all teams that have been pretty terrible the last 10-20 years but have risen to prominence thanks to NIL and the transfer portal.
I agree with your examples. I’ll be interested moving forward to see if any schools like the ones you mentioned can make the title game, much less win it. There is still a huge chasm between those schools and the usual suspects with endless money.
Yes, agree to certain extent...but we seemed to have the same schools periodically in the final four. Bana, Gawgia, LSU, Ohio State....then periodically ND, Kansas st, some others.
However, it seemed the mainstays are always there in some form or fashion.

Not sure how it will play out in the future. One would think money would win. So, now Texas gets is in the group with OSU, etc. Maybe lsu falls out of no deep pockets. So, long term maybe it will play out. But the idea of having the next SMU, boise st, or whomever... getting a chance in the playoffs ..is pretty cool in my book .even if they lose. With old sue system, no g5 team is getting in period unless they beat a good P5 team (Cincy over ND). Although I believe the group team should have to play a difficult nonconference schedule to be considered, at least we getting a shot. Before, very rarely.
Yeah it’s always gonna be the same 5 schools in the playoffs. And let’s be honest, they smu’s and Indiana’s while fun stories were kicked around in the playoff. I love having 12 teams, but I feel like at the end of the day unexpected teams will have great regular seasons then get crushed in the playoffs by the usual cast of characters. I don’t know how anyone can fix schools just out spending other schools
But this is how it is in pretty much every sport. Look at March Madness. Every year it's Duke, Kansas, Carolina, Michigan State, UConn, Kentucky dominating and usually filling out the Elite Eight/Final Four. A lot of those teams have blow out wins in the first couple rounds. But we watch for the upsets in the early rounds, and every few years there's a legit Cinderella who comes along and really makes some noise. That will happen in football too as long as the SEC/Big 10 don't make it so 8 of the 12 teams are from their conference and lock out everyone else.

Shoot. Look at this year's NFL playoffs. Most of the first two rounds were blowouts, and we've had the same few teams (Buffalo, KC, Baltimore, LA Rams) in the conference championships for the last 5 years.

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Unread post by spacemonkey » Tue Jan 21, 2025 8:29 pm

t4pizza wrote:
Tue Jan 21, 2025 4:50 pm
spacemonkey wrote:
Tue Jan 21, 2025 4:23 pm
I wish the g5 would start a NIT with a bye for the g5 CFP rep in the first two rounds. 20 team NIT 8 play the first two weekends. Conference champions get bye to the second weekend. If CFP rep gets beat in first round they move into the NIT. I would like playoff football again at App.

Something like this.
This would essentially put 5 FBS conferences back to FCS obscurity. It may be on the horizon but I am in no hurry to get there. Once there is a shift away from the power conferences, the rest will just become relative unknowns again. I am not saying that the fans can't still enjoy the product, lord knows most of us enjoyed 1-AA/FCS, I am saying that all the coverage that we have become accustomed to will disappear rather quickly. There will be little to no interest in a G5 playoff outside of the fan bases, just like FCS, DII, DII, etc.
No, the NIT would be for any fbs team that wanted to participate. Alright, just so you boys don't get your panties in a wad, we can make it an automatic bid for every conference champion that did not make the CFP get an automatic bid. I will leave out the G5 moniker. The G5 leagues need to make it part of the CFP agreement that all the other teams will participate in the NIT tournament and all proceeds of the NIT tournament are divided equally by the teams playing in the NIT.

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Unread post by Mjohn1988 » Wed Jan 22, 2025 11:19 am

spacemonkey wrote:
Tue Jan 21, 2025 8:29 pm
t4pizza wrote:
Tue Jan 21, 2025 4:50 pm
spacemonkey wrote:
Tue Jan 21, 2025 4:23 pm
I wish the g5 would start a NIT with a bye for the g5 CFP rep in the first two rounds. 20 team NIT 8 play the first two weekends. Conference champions get bye to the second weekend. If CFP rep gets beat in first round they move into the NIT. I would like playoff football again at App.

Something like this.
This would essentially put 5 FBS conferences back to FCS obscurity. It may be on the horizon but I am in no hurry to get there. Once there is a shift away from the power conferences, the rest will just become relative unknowns again. I am not saying that the fans can't still enjoy the product, lord knows most of us enjoyed 1-AA/FCS, I am saying that all the coverage that we have become accustomed to will disappear rather quickly. There will be little to no interest in a G5 playoff outside of the fan bases, just like FCS, DII, DII, etc.
No, the NIT would be for any fbs team that wanted to participate. Alright, just so you boys don't get your panties in a wad, we can make it an automatic bid for every conference champion that did not make the CFP get an automatic bid. I will leave out the G5 moniker. The G5 leagues need to make it part of the CFP agreement that all the other teams will participate in the NIT tournament and all proceeds of the NIT tournament are divided equally by the teams playing in the NIT.
I really don’t think I would mind going to G5 playoff but I gotta ask, how many people watch the NIT? Now my G5 playoff would be for the G5 only and would not allow the top G5 to be in the CFP.

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Re: App Transfer Portal 2025 - IN

Unread post by bcoach » Wed Jan 22, 2025 11:49 am

Mjohn1988 wrote:
Wed Jan 22, 2025 11:19 am
spacemonkey wrote:
Tue Jan 21, 2025 8:29 pm
t4pizza wrote:
Tue Jan 21, 2025 4:50 pm
spacemonkey wrote:
Tue Jan 21, 2025 4:23 pm
I wish the g5 would start a NIT with a bye for the g5 CFP rep in the first two rounds. 20 team NIT 8 play the first two weekends. Conference champions get bye to the second weekend. If CFP rep gets beat in first round they move into the NIT. I would like playoff football again at App.

Something like this.
This would essentially put 5 FBS conferences back to FCS obscurity. It may be on the horizon but I am in no hurry to get there. Once there is a shift away from the power conferences, the rest will just become relative unknowns again. I am not saying that the fans can't still enjoy the product, lord knows most of us enjoyed 1-AA/FCS, I am saying that all the coverage that we have become accustomed to will disappear rather quickly. There will be little to no interest in a G5 playoff outside of the fan bases, just like FCS, DII, DII, etc.
No, the NIT would be for any fbs team that wanted to participate. Alright, just so you boys don't get your panties in a wad, we can make it an automatic bid for every conference champion that did not make the CFP get an automatic bid. I will leave out the G5 moniker. The G5 leagues need to make it part of the CFP agreement that all the other teams will participate in the NIT tournament and all proceeds of the NIT tournament are divided equally by the teams playing in the NIT.
I really don’t think I would mind going to G5 playoff but I gotta ask, how many people watch the NIT? Now my G5 playoff would be for the G5 only and would not allow the top G5 to be in the CFP.
I have never cared how many people watched the NIT or the FCS playoffs. I went for the pleasure of watching. Second if you have a G5 playoff and the top team is not there you don't really end up with a legit champion do you.

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Re: App Transfer Portal 2025 - IN

Unread post by NattyBumppo'sRevenge » Wed Jan 22, 2025 12:55 pm

Playoffs??!!! We’re talking about playoffs??!!! Until the transfer portal and NIL stuff gets worked out, a second level of playoffs shouldn’t happen. Marshall would have been an automatic qualifier but half their team left. The validity of that 2nd level playoff will be affected with players of those teams selected leaving and fielding a team that has no business being in the playoffs. Majority of the teams in the FBS playoffs don’t have the excessive exodus so not as much of an issue there.

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Unread post by Mjohn1988 » Wed Jan 22, 2025 3:33 pm

bcoach wrote:
Wed Jan 22, 2025 11:49 am
Mjohn1988 wrote:
Wed Jan 22, 2025 11:19 am
spacemonkey wrote:
Tue Jan 21, 2025 8:29 pm
t4pizza wrote:
Tue Jan 21, 2025 4:50 pm
spacemonkey wrote:
Tue Jan 21, 2025 4:23 pm
I wish the g5 would start a NIT with a bye for the g5 CFP rep in the first two rounds. 20 team NIT 8 play the first two weekends. Conference champions get bye to the second weekend. If CFP rep gets beat in first round they move into the NIT. I would like playoff football again at App.

Something like this.
This would essentially put 5 FBS conferences back to FCS obscurity. It may be on the horizon but I am in no hurry to get there. Once there is a shift away from the power conferences, the rest will just become relative unknowns again. I am not saying that the fans can't still enjoy the product, lord knows most of us enjoyed 1-AA/FCS, I am saying that all the coverage that we have become accustomed to will disappear rather quickly. There will be little to no interest in a G5 playoff outside of the fan bases, just like FCS, DII, DII, etc.
No, the NIT would be for any fbs team that wanted to participate. Alright, just so you boys don't get your panties in a wad, we can make it an automatic bid for every conference champion that did not make the CFP get an automatic bid. I will leave out the G5 moniker. The G5 leagues need to make it part of the CFP agreement that all the other teams will participate in the NIT tournament and all proceeds of the NIT tournament are divided equally by the teams playing in the NIT.
I really don’t think I would mind going to G5 playoff but I gotta ask, how many people watch the NIT? Now my G5 playoff would be for the G5 only and would not allow the top G5 to be in the CFP.
I have never cared how many people watched the NIT or the FCS playoffs. I went for the pleasure of watching. Second if you have a G5 playoff and the top team is not there you don't really end up with a legit champion do you.
I agree, don’t really care how many people watch just acknowledging it becomes a tier 2 event. And yes, no point doing it if the highest ranked G5 team goes to the CFP.

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Re: App Transfer Portal 2025 - IN

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biggie wrote:
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About the transfers:
https://appstatesports.com/news/2025/1/ ... 5p3xALNiaQ
Well Hell looks like we raided the P4, not the other way around.

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