Last Edited: 7/23/2013 12:23:57 AM by First Street Forever

My theory is this: Ohio being relegated to a different/lower conference is a bad thing only in our minds and in our minds only, it really doesn't change reality.  Hang in there with me on this.

What does this division reclassification really mean for Ohio?  How does this change things?  I think it doesn't, except in our own perception.  Our schedule mainly consists of MAC competition now anyway and that won't change.  We will still get to play one big AQ team a year-like another poster said, the AQs have to schedule us non-AQs occasionally just to complete their schedule.  So I see our schedule still basically staying the same.  Our bowl possibilities will probably stay the same.  There was a quote in today's Cleveland Plain Dealer that there could be upwards of 40 bowls in 2014 and afterwards!  We still should be able to have the bowl experiences afforded by Mobile, ALA, Shreveport, LA, New Orleans, etc.

I see what Mike's saying but I posit this: once we get over the shock of not being in the elitist of elistist football divisions we will find out that our football experience won't change a bit, at least not for the negative. 

That being said, I could be very wrong.  It's all semantics anyway-football as we know it won't exist within the next 30 years given what we're finding out about the damage concussions caused by football does to the players that play it.

A few common sense points:

1) You'd have to imagine this 60 team island  (D-4 or whatever) will play the same number of home games. If not LOL.

1-A)  Assuming they play the same number of home game: 40 teams will be signing up to never compete for a national championship, and 20 will be signing up to be the butt of jokes that the sheep line up to watch. If you think Indiana's lowkey now, wait til they're perceived as Akron by the masses. (Yeah I get that UNC was never going to win a National Championship under the current structure, but tell their fans that. The same ones that want to cast-away.)

1-B) When they do play the same number of home games, let's face it. Ohio A&M loses that extra game, Alabama loses that extra game, and so on down the line. They're not as tough as they think. The road takes it's toll on everyone. Even the ordained.

2) Don't play them in anything. If they don't want to play us (the D-1 fallen angels)  in football. First off, don't play them in football. But also don't play them in soccer, basketball, lacrosse, archery, skeet shooting, chess. Don't play them in anything. Watch their bills pile up as they have to fly across the Nation just to fulfill the promise of their non-revenue sports. 

3) Sue the NCAA. Each and every fallen angel sue the NCAA. Don't allow the organization that you support be your downfall. The NCAA works for all of us. Not them. If the Big Goon Squad wants to separate. Bring down the NCAA with it. 

I can't do everyone's job for them.