(01-23-2020 11:51 AM)CenterSquarEd Wrote:  What makes you guys think this is an FBS conference? The ASUN is mostly a non-football conference, but they've got an agreement with the Big South to let their schools play FCS football there, and they've got one member doing their own thing in FBS. Most ASUN adds have been from Division II, without much regard to football or non-football status. If their footprint is everything from the Mississippi to the Hudson, which 10 schools from the right-ish side of this map are going to be looking for more exposure?: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/e.../Cbdii.PNG

There are talks that a bunch of D2 schools could downgrade to join the NAIA.
Tuskegee might be the only HBCU in Alabama not in trouble at the D2 level and could be looking to join D1.
Kentucky Wesleyan and Kentucky State both could go to NAIA which would leave no schools at the D2 level in the state.
Albany State and Clark Atlanta maybe the only other schools from the SIAC with Tuskegee to survive.
Several Gulf South schools may go back to NAIA. Lee, Shorter, Montevallo, are the likely ones.
You have to look at the bigger names that would have the money and resources. Too many small privates in the area.