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[QUOTE="Bryanw1995, post: 4686553, member: 9107"]
I'm surprised that this doesn't get more discussion time in Realignment circles.  I, for one, think that it's best for football to keep FBS, or a theoretical "breakaway", as large as possible.  Certainly all of the current P5, but also much of the current g5.  Put a requirement for membership and actually stick to that, then allow any left out of the original group to join if they meet the requirements.

I'm just spitballing here, but you include every single P5, then for g5s you could include one or several of the following:

30k seat on campus stadium, or nearby NFL stadium for home games
minimum 100 scholarship players
each scholarship player gets full room/board tuition plus 36k a year salary when/if pay for play comes to pass
every current member of the P5 exempted
every former member of a major conference, including the old SWC and BE exempted
every team that's won a major bowl in the past 30 years exempted
every team that's finished in the top 25 AP poll in the past 30 years exempted

I'm not sure how many teams that gives you, but in my mind I'm thinking that about 100 teams would ensure that everybody who wanted in would in fact be in.  It would ensure that every region of the country was covered, in most cases by several teams.  It probably brings along too many schools.  However, including a few too many and avoiding a bunch of congressional interference would be preferable to bringing in only "major" programs.
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