They might be lowering the number of sports to offer in FBS and FCS and at D1 for example. Look at how many sports that the P5 schools dropped during the past few years? Now, all sports have to have a NIL. FCOA and all that. That means they need to find ways to balance the books to take care of all the athletes and not just all the money sports. It might be easier to to have FCS conferences with the new creation of MVFC as an all sports FBS conference. Now, I could see conferences like the PSAC, RMAC, GSC, Lone Star Conference, MIAA, and all the large D2 schools move up to be FCS/D1. Then you split all sports into 1A/1AA. This would also give more teams at D1 in sports that needs more members like men's wrestling, beach volleyball, men's volleyball, women's wrestling, baseball, softball, rowing, etc. I could see Central Oklahoma be an affiliate to the Big 12 with rowing. The smaller schools may not be able to get into D1 unless they can show that they can grow their student body up and if they can afford D1.