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[QUOTE="WoadBlue, post: 3920860, member: 1145"]
Well, let's have some food for thought to revive this now mutilated thread. On another board, a UNC fan posted the following in response to talk about the SEC booting Vanderbilt as part of a drive to pare down from the old P5  to a much smaller number of schools (40?) that are left in BIG TIME football.

"Vanderbilt is suffering from its success.
It's not unusual for a successful research institution.
Vanderbilt is teetering on having the number of graduate students surpass the number of undergraduate students.
That problem already exists in places like Johns-Hopkins and Northwestern, Duke too. Carolina was headed there until the Legislature raised the cap on the number of undergraduate students. Now the numbers are almost equal, but there is no place to put anyone else.
Carolina like Vanderbilt has a small campus (about 750 acres) surrounded by extremely expensive real estate and an oppressive local government that controls construction projects on campus.
Research out earns athletics by more than 10 to 1 in Chapel Hill it is probably a similar ratio in Nashville.
Vanderbilt won't get kicked out of the SEC, but they may decide that they can get better return on their space by not continuing to pursue SEC level football."

Anybody think any school would make such a decision?
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