And if you’re going to have good high school programs, you’ve got to have kids getting opportunities to play at all levels,” Smart said. “Look, high schools are our feeder programs, just like we are for the NFL. Kirby Smart, whose coaching career began at Division II Valdosta State (under current Samford head coach Chris Hatcher), has also offered up an altruistic reason: The money paid to the small programs, usually around $500,000 per game, helps them survive. And for some fans who don’t want to pay for season tickets or some of the bigger games, an FCS (or Group of 5) game is an opportunity to attend a game at a much lower cost.Coaches, whether they acknowledge it or not, like the chance to rest their key players (at least after halftime) and give playing time to younger and less experienced players.FCS opponents are about a quarter of the cost of paying Group of 5 teams, which are routinely getting around $2 million per game.
#Fantasy feeder series#
Scheduling home-and-home series with other Power 5 teams means giving up a home game one of those years.
Georgia is not scheduling Samford or other FCS teams just to get an automatic win. And let’s try to get rid of some misconceptions, on both sides. More often, you get Miami beating Bethune-Cookman by 57 points, Baylor beating Albany by 59 points or whatever Georgia is about to do to Samford. Sometimes you get South Dakota State scaring Iowa. Sometimes you get monumental upsets like Appalachian State (before it moved up) beating Michigan. There are 54 matchups this season between Power 5 teams and FCS teams. But there are compelling arguments for why they should not. Which leads to the next argumentative question: If and when the SEC goes to nine conference games, how could these pitiful mismatches not go away? When it comes to argumentative questions, it’s the easiest in college football: Why is Georgia playing Samford this week? Why are the defending national champion Bulldogs, who are lousy with five-star prospects and future pros and just made Oregon look like an FCS team, about to play an actual FCS team?
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