Yeah, I don't know where the leader/catalyst would come from. Temple obviously can't be the leader, because they're walking a knife's edge with the MAC and can't afford to start talking mutiny with no safe place to land. Buffalo is somewhat in the same situation and has a bit of a public relations problem given how disastrous the start of their FBS program was. Their judgment would be questioned. Charlotte is still fighting to get a FCS team, and figures worst case scenario, they can buy their way back into CUSA. Really only UMass could drive this boat, and traditionally we've been followers, not leaders. I think our AD McCutcheon is doing an outstanding job, but he's definitely a realist. That's part of why he's doing well here, because he's figured out how to work within the limits of UMass's athletic program. I don't know that he's ambitious enough to bring about a revolution like a new conference. I read the minutes of our Athletic Committee meetings, and it's always "maybe the Big East would help us, maybe the Kraft family [owners of the New England Patriots] would help us, maybe the state government would help us." It's never "let's make this happen." Plus there's a high rate of turnover on the governing committee, and some members seem underqualified and haven't even read the previous football study from 2003. There's a lot of spinning of wheels. One possible source of hope: UMass just got a new chancellor from the University of Tennessee, and he's supposedly a sports fan. Maybe he's the catalyst. Whatever it is, we're going to have to get this done ourselves. Nobody is going to do it for us. We have to force the issue.