(04-21-2013 09:14 AM)Usajags Wrote: We will never be done adding during this time of realignment.
So many people say this and its not true. Realignment is not an endless conveyor belt. The SEC, Big 10, Big 12, Pac 12 are not going to keep adding until they get to a 100. The number of possible slots are VERY limited.
The slots in every FBS conference are going to be completely full up at some point and the conveyor belt will lock up and movement will stop.
Some school who dreams of the SEC is going to be left just outside the door....pretty much forever. Some FCS school who dreams of an FBS move-up will be left outside the door....possibly for a generation.
You have a limited number of FBS conferences with a limited number of slots each. You might have some minimal jockeying around at the lower levels like you did when Temple got kicked. But they will be extraordinary cases.
I don't see any of the majors dissolving in the future. I think it is highly unlikely that any of the majors drop teams in the future no matter how much regret they might have. Wake Forest, Vandy, Miss State, Indiana, Oregon State, and Baylor are most likely not going anywhere. Once those slots at the upper levels are filled they tend to stick for a very long time.
Even if mighty FIU starts selling out every game, builds a state of the art stadium that rivals everything in FBS, wins National Championships, and gets on tv every week and rakes in the money they will not move because there will be no slots available to move to without kicking a Vandy or Indiana out. Won't happen.
The bottom line is that you will find yourself in a conference at some point that will probably be your home for a long time. The "pecking order" won't mean nearly as much. At that point it will be time to stop wishing, hoping, begging, and griping and focus on unity and a long-term strategy for moving up the conference rankings instead.
In the words of The Eagles "There is no more new frontier, we have got to make it here."
We MIGHT be at that point right now and just don't know it. I won't be surprised if there are a few more moves and I won't be surprised if there aren't any at all.