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[QUOTE="Archbold44, post: 5458722, member: 10528"]
They will leave out whomever they will leave out.  They might even kick out some schools.  Eventually, a Northwestern and Vanderbilt might find themselves imperfect fits with where this is all going.

This is a revenue issue and, like it or not, the Northeast is limited in that regard when it comes to college football.  This is at least In part because the NFL is so large.  There are only three D1 schools in NY, but there are 3 pro football teams with huge followings.  And that excludes the impact that pro teams in Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and New England have on the fringes of NY as well.  So that dilutes the value of the football product.  I am not so sure that New York is not saturated with football.

Performance on the field can only go so far.  Boise State would not get a sniff from the Pac 12, much less the B1G or SEC.  Not even the B12 so far.  Although I could see the B12 using taking Boise State and UNLV at some point, such as if the ACC gets raided and backfills from the B12.

For Syracuse to overcome all of this, it can only be because Fran Brown does what Dick MacPherson did from 1987-1991.  We will need to be a consistent top 15 team over a period of time.  But it took him 7 years to get us to the first year of that success.  Do we have that much time?  And I am not sure how easy it will be for any school moving forward to be a consistent playoff team, much less one that is not already in that position.

That being said... if we get to 4-0 this year... I would say that the University would be wise to lock Brown up with a contract that would make Jimbo Fisher blush.
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