(03-10-2018 12:42 PM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  Playing out the Miami and the Big East 3 to the ACC scenario a little further.

The 3 A-10 schools start playing football with the 7 Metro schools: S. Car, VT, Cincy, L'ville, Memphis, Tulane, and USM.

With the Metro intact the Sunbelt doesn't experience the mass exodus in 1991. UAB, USF, VCU, Charlotte, USA, WKU, ODU, and Jacksonville stays together in the Sunbelt and there's no need to merge with the American South Conference. If and when UAB and USF want to start D1-A football they could bring UCF, ULL, LA Tech, and Ark St. into the fold in the 90's. When USA, WKU, ODU, and Charlotte decided to play FBS they all would have had a conference home, especially I'd the Sunbelt and not the American South became the football home. Perhaps MTSU, Troy, FAU, and FIU as well.