(12-04-2017 07:47 PM)bullet Wrote:  Or a celebration of the failings of realignment? Same teams keep playing each other? Schools leave and bring up new competitors, increasing the gap between the G5 and P5 as the remaining talent is spread thinner?

One thing I've observed with realignment is the same groups of schools tend to keep ending up with each other. For example Memphis and Cincinnati have been Missouri Valley, CUSA, and AAC in football. Colorado ditched the Mountain States and eventually ended up with Utah in the Pac-12

Wyoming ditched the league to join the WAC and ended back up with Utah State in MWC.

You end up with a few lower rung schools giving up and dropping out and few others rising up but over time the same basic groups keep ending up together.