As a fan of a Denver men's athletic program that finished #5 in the Capital One Cup last year, won the NCAA Hockey title and also went to the final four in lacrosse and soccer and has won the Learfield D-I AAA Director's Cup for eight of the last nine years as the best non-football athletic department in the country, the FBS breakaway scenario is a chilling one.

Denver has proven that non-football athletic departments can compete effectively with much larger and richer D-I schools by investing in niche sports like ice hockey, lacrosse, soccer. Does success in these sports matter? There were 20,000 people filling the United Center in Chicago for the hockey final. There were 30,000 people in the stands at the lacrosse final four this year in Foxboro, Mass. These events may not produce huge revenues or TV ratings that football and basketball do, but there is a niche market for these sports and for those schools who choose to play them. It would be a shame for schools that have invested enough to compete well at the D-I level to have that taken away by greed...

The breakaway has already happened
You have the 5 playoff conferences and you have the 5 non playoff conferences
When gor's and tv contracts renew you might get some minor realignment
Correct if Iam wrong but I think what we see today is the split