Campbell has once again put together a bewildering recruiting class, sitting in the Top 100 of ALL college football.
Really want to learn what the sell is. Don’t have much on the way of draft odds, prior program (or coaching) success, or even a clear positive trajectory to sell.
The Ivy League had a combined endowment of nearly $200 Billion.
The only logical realignment move is for the Ivy to drop their postseason football ban, offer Stanford, Northwestern, Duke, Vanderbilt, and Rice to join, then dominate the landscape by buying their way to success.
Some key things to watch for in the MSU @ SDSU semifinal today (3pm CT on ESPN2):
- Can SDSU contain the designed QB runs?
- Likewise, can MSU stay strong up the middle?
- Can MSU secondary become a no fly zone?
- Can SDSU stay clean on special teams?
18 years on, and ESPN *still* feels the need to list the FCS as I-AA for folks.
So good luck getting people on this bird app to stop calling it Twitter, lol.
It's back baby! Presenting the 2023 preseason starting positions for the FCS Imperialism Map!
And as as always, go follow
@dyland95
and thank him for running this again this year!
Bad news friends.
Due to events beyond our circumstances, moving forward we will not longer be tweeting, retweeting, or quote-tweeting any FCS content.
It's been fun, but that time has come and gone.
But good news friends!
We will continue to post, repost, and quote-post all our same nonsense FCS takes on this here x dot com app.
It's a good thing there's no brand equity wrapped up in "tweeting" and "twitter" that could've caused any confusion with our post above.
It's the 2022 FCS Playoff Map! The entire country is up for grabs as 24 teams battle it out.
Many thanks as always to
@dyland95
for putting this (and the season long imperialism map) together.
For our FBS friends trying to understand the FCS, a conference comparison! Important note! The MEAC and SWAC are not listed purposefully because the FBS doesn't have HBCU conferences and it feels unfair to them to try and shove their cultural influence into the FBS structure.
What if you're an FCS fan that watched a middling Liberty spend obscene money to appear big time as a "school" that spends 50x more on athletics than they bring in on research?
And what if that got them a football team worse than the 2 about to compete for the FCS Championship?
If you are rooting against Liberty in the Fiesta bowl and your team is in the Group of Five, you are at the same time hindering your school's future chance at making the expanded playoff. We must all band together in this game! We must Unite!
Delaware is “leveling up” to the C-USA.
The equivalent of having a nice house in Minneapolis only to move to a condo in Jacksonville and claiming it’s an upgrade because it’s warmer.
Can we take a second to discuss how wild this recruitment graphic from UCA is? It's got everything!
- Football as a phone pantomime
- Perplexing hashtag
- Lens flair, because why not?
- Tiny bear photoshopped on the field
- Unexplained stock silhouette of a flock of random birds
One of the great things about the FCS’s *actual* playoff:
Selection Sunday happens early enough that players don’t have to worry about being passed up because their coach has accepted a new job.
There is currently a game being played involving FCS football players, but as far as we know there’s no way to watch it right now unless someone is in the stands periscoping it or something.
C’mon
@IvyLeague
, you know we’d be live commenting if it was available to watch!
No, no, no, no, no. It’s Christmastime. There’s always a lot of title hopes around the holidays. So we’re just in the neighborhood to see if everyone’s taking the proper precautions. That’s all.
Fun fact: despite what you probably think, the C-USA is not just some “random D2 conference.”
And frankly, that’s pretty insulting.
They’re just as valid a D1 conference as the Southland, NEC, or Pioneer.
So show some respect 😤
Guess what? There’s a conference in Division I that has:
1. been exactly the same for (a very nice) 69 years.
2. the two teams in all of college football with the most national championships.
3. two of the top five most played rivalries in CFB.
4. literally created the sport.
These are dark days. A handful of administrators and executives are destroying decades of tradition so that a few rich schools can get richer.
Fans don’t benefit from what’s happening here. They’re destroying what makes college football special.
Hey, remember how we said there was going to be a playoff specific imperialism map?
@dyland95
created one and we forgot to put it up. So here's how things started:
It’s unfortunate that only like 2000 people not in the stands are watching this because of how late it was scheduled.
Never mind relegated to ESPN+ because of all the incredibly interesting content that’s been airing on ESPN and ESPN2 the last few hours…
The bubble teams that missed the playoffs:
* UC Davis (7-4, same record as Sac State who they beat well just yesterday)
* EIU (8-3)
* Holy Cross (7-4)
* UIW (8-1)
* UT Martin (8-3)
* Western Carolina (7-4)
We’re all enjoying how Jackson State is out here clowning on the FBS, but can we also talk about how
@GoCamelsFB
has gone and pulled at least EIGHT 3* recruits?!?
It's the 2022 FCS Playoff Map after the Second Round!
Many thanks as always to
@dyland95
for putting this (and the season long imperialism map) together.
Two FCS programs (
@GoJSUTigersFB
and
@GoCamelsFB
) ended the recruiting cycle with better classes than at least one P5 team.
Maybe even more incredible, the Camels pulled it off threefold, and end with a top 80 class. They sit above than all but 12 post-realignment G5 teams!
If the universe has any sense of humor at all, we’ll get James Madison playing Jacksonville State in Frisco for absolutely zero purpose besides bragging rights of winning their first bowl game.