(05-10-2022 12:13 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(05-10-2022 12:08 PM)solohawks Wrote:  There are too many schools in the south and east that want to be FBS for the Sunbelt to die.

The only reason the WAC died was because the pool of upgrades in the west was limited to Big Sky schools and they all said no thanks.

That's a problem the SunBelt or CUSA would not face.

As I said in the following post, you can't just move up a bunch of FCS schools and call it an FBS conference. It is simply an FCS conference with 1 to 3 FBS schools in it and they may cease to meet FBS requirements.

The WAC and Sun Belt spanned across the continent for a time. If it was that easy, the WAC could have survived with NMSU and a bunch of southern indies, some of them affiliates. But it didn't.

The full sports membership requirement was the kicker.

An ASun, Caa, SoCon, Big South, etc school would gladly move all sports to the SunBelt if that allowed them to accomplish their goal of FBS

Contrarily, they would not do the same thing to the WAC. The cost was just too great.

The WAC couldn't have survived with a bunch of southern indys because they wouldn't have met the all sports requirements and most FCS conferences wouldn't allow you to withdraw for football and still play Olympic sports in the same conference.