seems like we all can't win on some of these issues of late. As seble was preparing to change the engine 2 years ago, some vet who often does not post and I can't recall his name, posted something like changing the engine is like pushing a balloon, push one side and the balloon changes shape somewhere else. I think the rise of the power BCS conference(s) is one such issue, an unintended consequence of the lebron james recruit generation era.
Many have brought up prestige here, my 2 cents, base prestige used to be much unfairer when I started, we could not even see prestige then & best I can remember, did not change much at all - so in that regard, I am glad it is how it is now. Still, anytime the computer gets a say in the long term health of a program, I am not in favor, so I would prefer base prestige to be even less a factor.
There of course are limits to any of these issues, and taken to extreme, any idea in this game will go haywire, I think the notion of the balloon tells us all, that when CS decides to make a change, when they finish, they should halve the amount of the change 'factor', and that would be just about right.
8/8/2011 7:27 PM (edited)