It would be far from ideal, but Wichita State could be insurance if Navy goes back to being independent in football again.

It would behoove Missouri State to stay behind a few years in the MVC to collect the balance of Wichita State's exit fees.

The alternative would be to organize a mass defection to trigger the tournament credit distribution to the individual schools, but that really only works if they follow Wichita State to the same conference. Six schools in the MVC should have pulled that with the WAC, even if meant Creighton was one of the six for a couple of years.

WAC 2012-13 (basketball):

Pacific - Seattle, Idaho, San Jose State, Utah State
West - Denver, New Mexico State, Creighton, Wichita State
Central - Missouri State, Northern Iowa, Illinois State, Southern Illinois
South - Texas-Arlington, UTSA, Texas State, Louisiana Tech

The following season 5 FBS schools and Creighton leave. Denver and UTA likely stay put since there is no need to invite Grand Canyon or Chicago State, but the WAC likely works on two more football schools for FBS.


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