This looks to me like a move worth trying. It's definitely an out-of-the-box move. With the critical mass of schools, there will be a little bit of something for everyone. 9 football schools, 10 non-football schools (counting Texas Woman's-women's sports only). 5 private schools, 14 public schools. If this works, more power to them. It'll cut down on travel in a lot of sports, but it's still a long way to Western New Mexico and Texas A&M International. If rumors of desires of some of these and other schools are true, there may not be 19 schools in the LSC for very long. That will depend on moves made further up the food chain.

This also bodes interestingly for the GAC and a rumored revival of the Oklahoma Intercollegiate Conference:
1) With the dissolution of the Heartland Conference, a spot opens up for a new Division II conference. A new OIC could slide into this spot.
2) But, a new Oklahoma-based DII conference would only have six members, unless they added Cameron, Oklahoma Christian, and Rogers State (all non-football members). Perhaps there was not enough support among the OK schools to form their own conference? If there was, OC and RSU would have held off on accepting an invite to the LSC and instead maneuvered to an OIC 2.0. It looks to me like the Oklahoma schools aren't going to blow up the GAC.

Based on this move, from this vantage point, the GAC is here to stay. 12 football-playing schools, 6 in AR, 6 in OK, 8 public, 4 private. I have no problem with that.