Article on the future of college athletics- who's getting $$

[ChelseaFriar]

One great point that the article makes is that conferences constructed around football force non-revenue athletes to fly all over the country to compete even when there are plenty of schools a bus ride away with whom they can compete.

Rules should be changed so that a conference can be developed just for football and/or basketball, bit there can be a different conference for non-revenue sports.

I agree, they should allow conferences to be FB/BBall and then allow the schools to compete in more regional conferences for non-rev sports. In that regards I could see the Big East break into two sub-conferences for those sports. An eastern and western branch that has the five current members plus a few associate members.

East:
SJU
SH
PC
Nova
GTown
Temple
Rutgers
Army
Navy
UConn

West:
X
Butler
Marq
DePaul
CU
Dayton
SLU
Notre Dame
Northwestern
Air Force

That would work, but not sure a school like ND would go for it. They want to compete with the very best in non-revenue sports for both men and women in soccer, lacrosse, etc. The majority of their sports are Top 20 programs.

[SCS]

Your conference isn't really that regional. There are closer schools to Providence then schools in D.C.