I found a quite a number of interesting quotes in this article:

Quote:The elephant in the room in is a potential further division of the FBS. Which schools are going to make the cut, and which will be relegated to what has long been referred to as "Division IV"? While a splitting of FBS is not a certainty, it is more likely now than at any time since that last big division in 1978.

Quote:"It's not on the table yet, but that's the first thing that's going to have to asked," said West Virginia AD Shane Lyons, a member of the Transformation Committee. "With those Transformation Committee members, what are we looking for? Is it membership requirements? There is the differential between schools that make $175 million and those that make $4 million.

Quote:The Transformation Committee is co-chaired by SEC commissioner Greg Sankey and Ohio AD Julie Cromer. By its mere composition, the committee foreshadows a separation. Sankey is head of the nation's most powerful football conference. Cromer is AD of a MAC school, which plays some of its games on weeknights to maximize exposure.

Quote:"Anything that has Sankey in it would give me an indication that the divide will get greater," said a college sports consultant who spoke anonymously because of the sensitivity of the situation. "Julie being at Ohio, I really like Julie. She's smart as hell. I would see her and Sankey clashing big time. I suspect that's the case, but Greg's going to win every time because he can. He's got the power."

Quote:There are current minimum standards for FBS membership, including (just to name a few): sports sponsorship (16), minimum scheduling requirements (60% of games vs. FBS, 5+ home games) and average attendance (15,000). Raising the attendance minimum to 30,000 would alone theoretically cause 56 schools (43%) to lose FBS membership based on 2019 averages.

Quote:MAC commissioner Jon Steinbrecher, whose conference might be one of those impacted by a higher cost of doing business, is not deterred.

"I'm comfortable based on conversations I've had among the FBS commissioners and with Greg Sankey," he said. "I don't think people should overreact or underreact to anything. Whatever the outcome, we're well positioned. Deregulation is really interesting to talk about in the abstract but is wicked hard to do in reality."

https://www.cbssports.com/college-footba...ivide-fbs/

MAC well positioned with midweek games? Its pushing 50 years since the Division 1A/1AA split of 1978 a period with an unprecedented influx of money into college athletics.

I would have to think if its going to be a massive increase in scholarships and coaches allotted across all sports the MAC would prefer to stop playing the game and move down to FCS. What would be the point in helping to shape new standards if the MAC couldn't take advantage of them?