The conferences involved will be Big West, WAC, A-Sun, Pioneer, CAA, Patriot, Summit, Southland, Horizon, AEC, NEC, SWAC, MVC and Gulf Star.

Lets look at the Gulf Star, and where schools fit. This would be for non-football schools that are or were D1.
Gulf Star
New Orleans
Texas A&M-CC
UTA
Little Rock
UTRGV
Trinity TX with football in pioneer
Centenary, LA.
Oklahoma City U.
Hardin-Simmons with football in Pioneer
Birmingham-Southern Pioneer football
Loyola-New Orleans

Future could be Christian Brothers, Auburn-Montgomery or UAFS.
Birmingham-Southern could be in A-Sun as well.

CSU-L.A. would still be in the Big West. Cal. Poly might be blocked and stayed in the Great West until WAC invites. When UC-San Diego got invited to the Big West, Cal. Poly would get invited over CSU-Bakersfield.

Augusta State now Augusta, stayed in D1? They would be in the ASUN.
A-SUN possible schools.
Augusta
Birmingham Southern
Savannah State
Winston-Salem
Tampa
Armstrong State

1 or 2 could go to the Big South instead. These schools makes the footprint tighter.

WAC
CSU-Bakersfield
Regis
US International
West Texas A&M
Tarleton State goes to Southland.

Oklahoma City U. could be a Summit school.

Other schools.

U. of Baltimore CAA or Patriot
Catholic U. Patriot
West Chester CAA
Northeast Illinois Horizon
Gettysburg NEC or AEC with football in Pioneer
Muhlenburg AEC or NEC with football in Pioneer
Brooklyn College CAA invite before Hofstra
Morri Brown SWAC
NYU CAA
Utica AEC or NEC
Washington MO. MVC or Horizon with football in the Pioneer.

Where would you place all these schools?

After reading through your first 3 "paragraphs" I still had no idea what this post is about, but I did catch your question at the end and I'd probably just keep those schools where they currently are. If these schools wanted to be in different conferences they would have started making moves long ago to do so and would probably be where they want to be.

Some of these schools (Armstrong State, now part of GA Southern and US International) no longer exist. Others dropped athletics entirely. Besides, what about the schools that didn't exist in 1960, like UCF or FGCU?

Just another W.A. fantasy D2, D3, and NAIA call-up to D1 post. UAFS was a JuCo until 2002.

Have fun.

(07-19-2020 01:38 PM)whittx Wrote:  Some of these schools (Armstrong State, now part of GA Southern and US International) no longer exist. Others dropped athletics entirely. Besides, what about the schools that didn't exist in 1960, like UCF or FGCU?

Would Armstrong State merged with Georgia Southern if they were still D1?
US International is now a for profit school under a new name.

What I am talking about if these schools stayed D1? Which school today that recently called up get an invite at all?

(07-19-2020 01:38 PM)whittx Wrote:  Some of these schools (Armstrong State, now part of GA Southern and US International) no longer exist. Others dropped athletics entirely. Besides, what about the schools that didn't exist in 1960, like UCF or FGCU?

It's a fantasy thread that leads to no end, so I guess we could put them into a fantasy league that also ultimately does not exist?

(07-19-2020 07:00 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  

(07-19-2020 01:38 PM)whittx Wrote:  Some of these schools (Armstrong State, now part of GA Southern and US International) no longer exist. Others dropped athletics entirely. Besides, what about the schools that didn't exist in 1960, like UCF or FGCU?

Would Armstrong State merged with Georgia Southern if they were still D1?
US International is now a for profit school under a new name.

What I am talking about if these schools stayed D1? Which school today that recently called up get an invite at all?

No. GA was still going to merge schools and weren't going to deal with the political nightmare of merging Armstrong and Savannah State instead of GS.

Utica College tried Div 1 basketball about 35-40 years ago.

They had little to moderate success as an Indy. They were coached by an old NBA players and coach named Larry Costello. The schedule was mostly low Div 1.

It was hard for them to get traction as an affiliate school of Syracuse University. In 2009 Syracuse allowed Utica College to go independent. They are a Div 3 school now and that is right for them. Enrollment is about 4-5000.

https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/sch...edule.html

(07-19-2020 07:00 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  

(07-19-2020 01:38 PM)whittx Wrote:  Some of these schools (Armstrong State, now part of GA Southern and US International) no longer exist. Others dropped athletics entirely. Besides, what about the schools that didn't exist in 1960, like UCF or FGCU?

Would Armstrong State merged with Georgia Southern if they were still D1?
US International is now a for profit school under a new name.

What I am talking about if these schools stayed D1? Which school today that recently called up get an invite at all?

The USG has been consolidating schools across Georgia for a while now with the goal of reducing overhead costs. It doesn't have anything to do with athletics.

(07-20-2020 08:37 AM)TexanMark Wrote:  Utica College tried Div 1 basketball about 35-40 years ago.

They had little to moderate success as an Indy. They were coached by an old NBA players and coach named Larry Costello. The schedule was mostly low Div 1.

It was hard for them to get traction as an affiliate school of Syracuse University. In 2009 Syracuse allowed Utica College to go independent. They are a Div 3 school now and that is right for them. Enrollment is about 4-5000.

https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/sch...edule.html

Saw them play at Barton Hall a couple of times back then. Thought it was odd to make the move.

If they do go 1A and 1AA for all sports, and 1AA have their own championship for basketball, baseball, softball and other sports which could give some of these schools a chance at a championship. We do might see some D2 schools do make the move like Central Oklahoma to do the 1AA championship, and do get to play Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Tulsa and Oral Roberts in all sports. Only Augusta is the only school on this list that was openly looking to rejoin D1.

(07-20-2020 09:49 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  If they do go 1A and 1AA for all sports, and 1AA have their own championship for basketball, baseball, softball and other sports which could give some of these schools a chance at a championship. We do might see some D2 schools do make the move like Central Oklahoma to do the 1AA championship, and do get to play Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Tulsa and Oral Roberts in all sports. Only Augusta is the only school on this list that was openly looking to rejoin D1.

Reading this can give a person a dizzying headache. Is someone available to translate whatever nonsense this is.