(06-26-2020 03:14 AM)Nerdlinger Wrote: No. No one in a stable DI conference is going to move to the MEAC right now. The only potential taker might be Chicago State, and even that seems unlikely.
Yeah, the problem with Chicago State is they only help if the MEAC is down to six members, and Chicago State is added to bring them up to seven for basketball.
First, to be a multi-sport conference in context that would surely entail not having six full members with football, they'd have to add baseball to the schools that don't have it and find a third men's team sport, like men's volleyball, perhaps with support from the Volleyball association (like the six SIAC schools that started men's volleyball programs).
That's a real long-odds scenario ... a four bumper bank shot with English ... but otherwise, Chicago State doesn't offer anything that the MEAC needs. What they REALLY need if no in region Division 2 HBCU is going to move up is a PBI that plays FCS football that's somewhere in reasonable travel distance, who is looking for a comfortable home for their football ...
... but as far as I know, that institution does not exist, and as far as a of David State-esque kind notion of getting a PBI to start football to get a ticket into the world of HBCU Football Classics, this would be the
wrong time to ask a college to consider that kind of financially costly move.