(04-17-2014 09:25 AM)FIUFan Wrote:  

(04-17-2014 09:09 AM)MWC Tex Wrote:  I don't think that they are not interested in FBS football but that the landscape is still uncertain. Until the P5 get their automony or a new division created with new rules, why put the effort to move up only see yourselves end back where you were. There are some big changes coming.
Athletes as employees to full cost of attendance and stipends....that'll still needs to be settled but it will affect a whole lot of G5 schools and perhasp some G5 schools don't participate in that because it will be to costly stay remotely competitve.
I change my mind think that the Sunbelt is the last spot for FBS. There is going to be some movement when all the changes coming down the road here by August to see what a school decides where they want to play.

What you're doing is proffering excuses as possible scenarios; there are a million 'what if's' out there. There is a theory in Economics (and other disciplines) called Random Walk. That theory states that the future can not be predicted; so to try to guess what might happen is a fools errand. All we have to answer our questions are the variables as they currently present themselves. Adding future what-if's only muddies the waters.

In other words, they either want to go FBS or they don't and all the rest is just noise.

The theory may work if you are looking a years down the road. However, the evidence (the noise you referenced) is now coming out and it will be in a few months of the changes to FBS and it will cause the schools to re-think their place.