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If the NCAA decided to give everyone a shot then the talent over time would make it to the schools you are listing. Right now there is no shot of that. But if 4 star Billy Football chose to go to La. Lafayette, and 4-5 of his friends do to, then the next year 4-5 more, then the field becomes level. The way it is set up now doesn't even allow for that to happen either. Why have 15 1A conferences and play by separate rules.

 

 

Then how did USF go from no football program to being a 9 win team in the Big East in exactly 10 years?  They started off in IAA and worked their way to 9 win seasons in, at the time, was one of the major conferences.  A lack of opportunity isn't what is preventing the bottom feeder schools like Lafayette from ascending.  It's the lack of university commitment, lack of money, lack of wealthy alumni, lack of a fan base, etc, etc....  

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