Quote Originally Posted by NY Crusader 2010 View Post
What your describing is essentially the entire SWAC moving trivially up to FBS. Sure the whole league could move up together (if TPTB allowed that) and majority of schools would meet or come close to the ferkakta "attendance requirements". But I don't see the league as a whole being able to raise its level of play on the field to becoming equal with the current G5. As far as level of play is concerned, the HBCU leagues are MUCH closer to DII than they are to FBS. Sure, they'll get better recruits on average than they get now, because they're FBS, but that doesn't mean they'll be competitive at that level. The MEAC and SWAC are FCS now and they're top teams are nowhere near the top of our division. See FCS playoff results since 1999 if you need a measuring stick.
What's the G5 got to do with anything? The SWAC's pretty full. They play a very limited OOC schedule. For them, moving up is really a no brainer. The ONLY thing that really changes is that they can recruit more kids. Again, for them it would be business as usual, with the caveat that the move would allow them to more fully fill their original mission by recruiting more athletes across the board. HBCU's aren't going to abandon classic games, nor should they. The only thing that might change is that - in theory - they could qualify for additional bowl games if they're not in a post season classic.

The SWAC's currently an FCS conference in name only.