Over the last several years, the NY6 G5 school had at least 2 P5/Top20 wins. Most years, the number was 3 or higher.
Going forward, if you can't get in-conference Top20 wins, you better have at least 2 P5 games scheduled, or you aren't getting anyway near the playoffs.
The obvious move to make here is to convert 1 of the slots for the non-conference G5 games to a P5 game.
Like I've said before, you keep your P5 payday slot and use the other P5 slot to work P5 home games every 4th year or so.
A serious football program would do this.
I agree with your assessment. The one area that needs improvement is in playing the Top of the G5. The question is as you stated, are they willing to do a 1-for-1? I'm not against agreeing to 2-for-1 deals for a P5 program to come to Lafayette if the deal is break even at worst. The problem I've heard is that in conversations held with P5 programs, the payout for our two trips were reduced significantly enough that is wasn't worth further discussion. I don't know which programs were involved in those discussions.
Ok, but if we do a 3 for 1 with a P5 it means one of two things will happen:
1. We’ll lose a home game 3 out of every 4 years.
2. We replace a G5 game for another FCS game every 3 years to keep 6 home games.
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To put it another way:
-6 home games/yr
-2 G5 games/yr (instead of 2 FCS)
-A series with a P5.
Pick 2 of the above. We can’t have all 3.
Wow, we agree on something, lol???
I don’t doubt it. 2-1 deals on the P5 side were mostly about saving money. But today these schools are making so much money they just don’t need to schedule them. Why take away a home game when you don’t have to? Why put your team reputation at risk by playing a G5 on their home turf where they have the advantage?
I really liked the home/Superdome deal Farmer made with Miss. State. I know it didn’t work out financially for us (only because us fans didn’t do our part,) but it gave us a national TV game in a marquee stadium against a winnable P5 school. I feel like there could be more room for creativity like this in the future.
That deal was garbage. Should have been 2 games in Starkville, 1 game in Lafayette and 1 game in the dome. Mississippi St only paid us 500k for the first game and then the superdome game they got 43 percent of the ticket revenue. On top of that UL was responsible for game day costs since it was a “home” game. It was a terrible deal.
We gave up too soon on opening the season in the Dome. You want a better OOC opponent, open the season in the dome and learn from past mistakes.
Not a bad idea in theory. But you could not guarantee 6 home games this way. This would almost mean every other year you would only play 5 home games. The P5’s even if agreed to would at best come here for a 2 for 1 probably a 3 for 1 and the AAC game would be every other year. We can’t play 7 road games at best every other year and that is what this would add up to.
5 home games (every year) in that scenario, would be awesome.
jmo
If we didn’t need the money then there would be no reason to play a P5 program.
The goal of the SBC should be to be the 5th or 6th best league to get an auto qualifier. You do that by beating the leagues, in every head to head matchups, that are traditionally +/-1 ranking ahead of you.
Get H&H with the MWC and the AAC. Play the ACC or PAC12 if you want a P5 game.
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