Dayton should get proactive. My understanding Neil Sullivan already has a plan in place should P5 go to 20 game round robins.
Get together with like minded schools who have demonstrated the $$$ and support for their programs and form a new conference.
National Collegiate Conference. Have a East West division where all the basketball teams play one another but the olympic teams only play the teams in their conference (thereby eliminating the expensive travel cross country).
Schools: Gonzaga, St. Marys, BYU, Wichita State, SMU, Dayton,
SLU,
UMass,
Rhode Island, just a few off top of my head.
Brought this up in another message board and someone said we don't want to give up the automatic bid. Well if we couldn't repeatedly get 4-5 at large bids per year then we have chosen the wrong programs.
Just a thought, anyone