Quote: The A-10 or SoCon would kill ECU athletics.

Of course, I disagree with you, C-Daddy...

Put ECU in the A-10, and you have no less than 2 40,000+ attendance games in Dowdy-Ficklen every other season -- William & Mary and James Madison. Sure, you can (try and) prove otherwise, but as long as I can point to that 40,000+ attended game with ECU and W&M back in 2001, I have at least 1 leg to stand on.

ECU athletics -- sans baseball -- is dead already thanks to its membership in C-USA. The AD budget is in 'da RED, football has slipped pretty much off the Atlantic Ocean and is only able to draw around 60-65% capacity in Dowdy-Ficklen. Basketball has been dead in Greenville ever since, well, forever.

At least with A-10 football, you get schools like Delaware, James Maddy, William & Mary, schools all within reasonable driving distance to East Carolina, and since most non-NC ECU alums are from the Northeast (so "they" say), the A-10 would be a great fit.

Yes, I'm backing off my SoCon stance a bit... gotta ride the hot conference (A-10), yanno?

The point is, ECU athletics is dead NOW as long as they insist on playing in a transregional non-BCS conference (re: C-USA). And we both know that ECU isn't likely to land a spot in any reorganization of the Big East. At least, I know that...