(01-28-2018 08:36 AM)miko33 Wrote:  There was another meeting at Davos that went unnoticed by the sports entertainment media. A group of P5/G5 conference commissioners and select university presidents got together to discuss realignment. They decided that they want the status quo as of now due to the fact that any further movement can (will) destabilize the entire college athletics product - and the markets for this type of entertainment.

Take a look to your left and then to your right. The schools that you are rubbing elbows with will be your running buddies from now on until the next 100 years or so - give or take. If you like your conference, you get to keep your conference...unless your school chooses to quit the conference. However, even quitting may not be in the cards - contracts and all that...

I know this is satire, but he's kind of right in one respect.

The poaching is pretty much done until the new CFP and TV deals come out. You might see a team drop out or down, but you're not going to see mass movement till then.

There probably won't be any G5 teams getting called up to a P5 league in the next couple of years.

Basically, the MWC is full (and has NMSU in a pinch if Hawaii decides to drop down), CUSA is beyond full (and might just do nothing if an open slot develops), the MAC is full and stable, and even the Belt is pretty much stable at this point. There are currently 5 G5 independents, and they aren't forming a conference anytime soon.

Perhaps if JMU wanted to move up, the Belt *might* take them and NMSU. But I just don't see it happening.

There are plenty of unhappy teams in FBS, but conference rules and agreements pretty much make a divide up all the teams in SBC and CUSA into some other arrangement really difficult.

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Part of this is money driven. So long as the P5 isn't expanding, the AAC won't be expanding. And no other move within the G5 really is going to much besides cost you an exit fee.