Quote Originally Posted by walliver View Post
I think it is time for schools to think about separating their football and basketball teams' conference affiliations from non-revenue sports. Consolidate non-revenue sports into geographic conferences to minimize travel expenses. It may make sense to fly the football team and men's basketball team to well-attended events, and at some schools this could include hockey, baseball or lacrosse (Women's basketball would be exempt because of public outcry). It is not cost-effective flying the volleyball and softball teams around the country. It would make more sense for UNC to play olympic sports with more local FBS and D2 schools. The Big Sky has a P5 footprint without the P5 revenue.

I doubt the P5 would like the idea, unfortunately, but it would save everybody a lot of money, especially out west.
Because this won't work across the board. There are other schools willing to pipe money into Women's BBall and fly them around, or Baseball, or Lacrosse. The P5 won't do this. Are there enough exceptions like Charleston in Baseball, Hopkins in Lacrosse that make a difference?

And a bigger question is, are we at a point where D-II even makes sense anymore? Should you collapse DI/DII together and let the schools/conferences decide scholarship levels and give schools out on an island more opportunity to find local teams to play?