That's why in the realignment pipe dream that I put forth had LaTech in with the Texas schools and east coast basketball schools. From what I gather from just reading their fans online, they focus their recruiting in multiple sports to the west of their school. So keeping them with schools like Rice, UNT, UTSA makes sense. That conference would be minimally less good in football but definitely could rob the A10 of one of their at-large bids in Bball with teams like GaState, UNCC, WKU, UAB, MTSU, UTEP, and ODU. That conference has the possibilities for several rivalries: GaSt/UNCC, GaSt/UAB, GaSt/MTSU and then TXST and all the Texas schools. The East division would be VA-NC-TN-GA-AL and West division would be LA-TX. That conference could even get UTA and ULR if it wanted for more BBall history.