(10-13-2021 01:29 PM)b0ndsj0ns Wrote: There is no such thing as stability at the G5 level. G5 conferences are as stable as the P5 conferences are. The AAC is unstable because it has members that are the most obvious choices to be called upon if holes are needed to be filled. However, if the AAC dissolved and the best members decided screw it lets all go to the Sun-Belt that wouldn't end G5 instability, it would just change the inflection point of the instability.
I bed to differ. The MAC, MWC and the SBC all seem to be stable. The instability amongst the G5 programs are from private universities and tweener programs. The G5 programs that are caught between the P5 and the rest (budgets/fan support/facilities) those programs aren’t stable. They are trying to join the haves.
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Stability can be a good thing but doesn't automatically mean it's because a conference is good.
The MAC is stable because no one wants their teams. Low support, low budgets, declining rust belt cities.
The MWC lost their best teams in BYU, TCU, and Utah last time around. Boise was in talks with the Big 12 but didn't get picked. 4 of the teams were in talks but didn't bite on an AAC move. The MWC is only becoming somewhat stable due to running low on teams that others want to take and being in the wrong half of the country for college football.
The SBC and CUSA both had lots of turnover last go around too. The SBC's recent stability is a combination of now being just as good if not better than CUSA, it's normal predator, and not really having schools that fit the institutional profile of the AAC (other than maybe Georgia State).
But to the other posters point, if the SBC does become the best G5 in the Southeast with growing tweener programs, it will always have some looming threat of instability just like the AAC did.