It seems Central Florida, Houston, and Cincinnati are front runners to the Big 12 and may all get invited. If so, would the remaining American be a conference we'd be interested in joining?

West:
SMU
Memphis
Tulane
Tulsa
Navy (football-only)

East:
South Florida
East Carolina
Temple

Non-football:
Wichita State

I don't expect them to pursue us but would you give up independence and the ASUN for this? Personally, I'd give up the ASUN but independence would be hard. The AAC clearly won't be a P6 anymore with UH, UC, and UCF leaving so I think independence is the best we could do to improve our stature. Memphis looks the the top dog who is left behind and they would be fun to play. South Florida and East Carolina would good schools to play often, and Temple isn't so bad now that they've shown a pulse lately. SMU would be decent too. Obviously Navy would be awesome. But the remaining half doesn't do much for me and I don't expect the other schools that would be invited with us to move the needle all that much (as I'm sure we wouldn't move the needle for them).

I think the American should add two full members and maybe one non-football to get a good balance. Get the two full members so that they can host a conference championship game for football and then wait for the dust to settle and people are comfortable with the new members. Then reevaluate to see if more football members would benefit the conference. I have no idea who those two should be.