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There is way too much thinking about and speculating about getting into or forming conferences which have a .00468 chance of happening and which if did happen would be a best sideways moves.

The speculators and wishful thinkers on this board should given the remoteness of the odds should be thinking bigger.

The Atlantic Coast Conference would seem to be the ideal conference for UD to be in and the ACC would be happy to admit UD, it would gain a presence in Ohio. It could realign its divisions to state division and metro division. UD could be in the metro division with Syracuse, Boston College, Miami, Pitt, Louisville Notre Dame and Clemson. Not that Clemson is a Metro school but since Purnell coached at both Dayton and Clemson they would no doubt be eager to join the division.

What would be needed to make it happen:
1. UD would have to go up to Division One Football
a. It would need to replace Welcome Stadium with a 50,000 seat state of the art football stadium but this could be funded by the Ohio taxpayers as that is how stadiums get built these days.

b. Scheduling
UD would probably need to be an independent in football for a few years but because football games are scheduled years in advance this might not be bad.
UD could schedule the toughest teams in all five conferences and they would agree as they would think they are scheduling a patsy not knowing about the juggernaut they would be facing when the actual game time arrived.
UD would need to have a schedule of all away games as these P5 Schools would never deem to come to Dayton. But this could work to UD's recruiting benefit as the potential recruit would know he is making history. It would also give the City time to build the stadium and time to build a hunger in the region to see the team play in person rather than on TV.
After winning a national title two or three years in a row, the ACC would come begging.

b. They would need to get a quality team. It might take some money to get Nick Saban but it could be worth it.

Given the remoteness of the possibilities discussed in this thread, one should think big rather than small like UD playing Wichita State home and away. .000468 is too small a possibility not to think big if it happens. Its like wondering what you would do if you won the powerball with a million dollar jackpot versus what you would do if you won the Powerball with a 300 million dollar jackpot. The odds are remote but about the same so why not think big.