re: Florida wins the UAB lottery. Gators setting up a super tough schedule in '17

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So, like every other school in Conference USA?

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Yes. And we subsidize those clowns by scheduling them for an easy win. Schools like Alabama and Auburn get nothing out of playing those schools. It doesn't help our ranking, our pedigree, nor does it bring in a large surplus of cash. A lot of these SEC stadiums are 25% empty when schools like UAB come to town. We all lose money, plus we pay out $500,00 to the school just so they can come in and lose 45-7.

It's also risky because these games are where you tend to lose role players to long-term injury.

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UAB will never be a power 5, but with appropriate benchmarks they could be a good C-USA team.

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And who cares if they're a good C-USA team? The landscape of football is changing. Sooner or later the 64+ teams in the P5 are going to break off from the NCAA and form their own division with their own rules and regulations. I doubt we will be seeing too much of the UABs of the world on our schedules when that finally happens.

That means all of these C-USA teams are going to shrivel up and die if they don't adapt and try to become more than just a C-USA team.