(04-16-2017 04:58 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  

(04-16-2017 02:43 PM)billybobby777 Wrote:  

(04-16-2017 01:16 PM)Curtisc83 Wrote:  

(04-16-2017 01:07 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  

(04-16-2017 12:42 PM)rokamortis Wrote:  Great find.

So do you expect things to have remained the same for the past 5 years? A lot of changes have happened so I wouldn't put any value on what may have been over 5 years ago.

Eastern Kentucky was on that list 5 years ago, and they were still considered before SBC settled on Coastal Carolina. Even James Madison is on that list, and SBC still wants them.

North Alabama announced they want to be in D1 back in 2011, and they finally got the invite.

You need to keep a list handy just in case if you get raided again. SBC still could get raided again in the future.

From the looks of it conferences have pretty much reached a saturation point and raiding a conference will be like one school leaving. With the CFP stuff in effect and the whole auto bid thing for BB applying to existing conference and not new ones I really don't see a new conference coming into existence. So where would all these raided schools go? There is no more room in the inn for large movement in realignment.

Nope. No one is moving up. Some will be moving down. Sorry DaveySt

I could see move up to take the place of some teams moving down, but there are teams that are wanted in FBS like James Madison and Missouri State. I could see at one point Stony Brook moving up.

Someone pointing out that credits for conferences? How many credits does now defunct conferences have that were D1 at one point? Great West did not have credits because they could not keep teams. Does Southwest Conference get reborn from C-USA and Sun Belt Conference west schools to form from minus La.-Monroe? I could see UTEP moving to the MWC.

Southwest Conference:
North Texas
Rice
UTSA
Texas State
New Mexico State
Arkansas State
Little Rock
La. Tech
La.-Lafayette
Missouri State
Lamar
UTRGV (adding football) move UTA back to the WAC.)

C-USA:
Middle Tennessee State
Western Kentucky
Southern Mississippi
Old Dominion
UAB
James Madison
UMass.
Georgia State
Delaware
Appalachian State
Stony Brook
Buffalo or Southern Alabama

SBC:
La.-Monroe or move back down to FCS's Southland
South Alabama or Jacksonville State
Troy
Georgia Southern
Coastal Carolina
Chattanooga
East Tennessee State
North Florida
FGCU
Kennesaw State
Eastern Kentucky
The Citadel (stadium size is FBS capacity)
Liberty?

Plus, we have to watch what the North Carolina politicians are going to do, and any expansions by the P5. AAC schools are targets to weaken AAC again away from being a power conference.

Musical chairs could be at it again, and none of the G5 conferences are safe.

FGCU will never be in The Belch. They are a Devry with a basketball program. More accurately, they are a Grand Canyon U without GCU's history. FGCU has been around less than Trump U. The Belch wouldn't touch that with a 10 ft poll. Liberty would cause certain Belch members to leave I've heard.