The question is do you form an aspirational conference that wants higher profile, or is the aim just to cut costs.

If it's just to cut costs, then why bother? The SBC is already about as compact as you get at FBS level. C-USA has already adopted a division heavy scheduling model to reduce travel. Any shuffling would result in rather minimal improvements on that front. That's a lot of headache for not much.

If it's aspirational, then it's the highest resource plus the most successful programs breaking from the lower resource and less successful programs. This implies both strong leadership and media sponsorship. There is no clear strong man in C-USA (no Texas or North Carolina or Ohio State), and there is no media sponsorship. What there is are some ADs who want better, and a 100 different ideas of shuffling, but no clear direction to improve the profile of such a shuffled group to justify a bigger media package.

What's an aspirational group from this lot anyway? ODU, Marshall, UAB, North Texas and uh, Liberty? That's not a media package core of any value.