(04-27-2014 02:05 PM)TheRevSWT Wrote:  

(04-27-2014 07:58 AM)GE and MTS Wrote:  

(04-27-2014 06:06 AM)OsageJ Wrote:  I guess one argument could be the western teams would vote in UMASS if the east brings in the rest of the Aggies sports.

If the west schools hold the east schools hostage like that, then I don't know how long the east schools would wait before having enough and breaking off. Sounds potentially very combustible.

How would the east schools break off? Where would they go?

And you are forgetting that last season, the east (with apparently WKU as the lead) blocked NMSU all sports. So in essence, they were holding the west hostage.

It happens all the time. Schools want what is best for them, not necessarily what is best for the conference. Remember, there can be schools that aren't detrimental to the conference, but aren't the best option.

There are plenty of opinions that think the G5 schools will realign and make better geographical conferences. That's where the eastern schools would go; to team up with other regional schools to make travel easier and hopefully have a tighter knit conference.

I have no doubts that there is compromise that happens between the schools. But other conferences have gotten things done and have done the expanding while the Sun Belt stays divided or gets shot down. The division in schools looks like a pretty obvious divide that in ten years time if they split we'd look back and say, "We should have seen this coming." We'll see if the Sun Belt can pull together and work as a conference and get an invite going or just flex their muscles at each other to try to outlast the other opinion.