Native Georgian Wrote:Charger, do you have any sort of estimated time-frame on when all that would happen? I'm guessing somewhere between 40 years from now and never.

Probably 2017-2025. The key points will be:

1) Temple not joining the MAC or Big East, who the A-10 would need for their own football league and compliance with the 6/5 rule.
2) Getting FBS commitments from the existing FCS powers.
3) Conference USA and/or the Sun Belt not getting raided and decimating the pool of upgrade candidates-especially by taking Charlotte (see remarks on Temple).
4) No major changes in the NCAA's structure.

Survivor, the reason I moved St. Joe's was so that Temple would be the only A-10 team in the Philadelphia market. If I didn't move Ricmond and UNC-Wilmington, the CAA and/or A-10 would be larger than their present sizes. I moved Rhode Island to the CAA simply because it would be much harder for them to upgrade to FBS-not to say it can't be done, because they are a similar size to some FBS schools, but it would be unlikely for them to make such a move. Rhode Island also plays football in the CAA now, so it does help them move towards an all-sports conference.

You could also have the CAA take in Maine, New Hampshire, and Stony Brook themselves for all sports, and have three of the displaced Atlantic 10 members (say St. Bonaventure, La Salle, and Duquesne) replace them in America East. America East would finally get some members located Between UMBC and Binghamton.

Obviously, if Xavier and Dayton go, there is less movement required from everyone else. If the Big East splits sometime next decade, Xavier and Dayton will probably be the first to go.