Non-conference scheduling is getting harder due to other conferences going to 20 game schedules. Add to that many P5 teams refuse to come to UD Arena at all. I personally would like to see better games at the arena and a better conference is the best way to do that.
The A10 is basically fine right now. There are some schools/programs that don't care about bball like they should, but the middle of the conference is reasonable and the top of the conference functions essentially like the P5. We get some good conference games, and if we keep winning we do get some attention and a chance at an at large bid. If BE expands its very likely to take some school from the A10, be in
SLU or Dayton (or someone like VCU, who knows). So if we're left behind, it would be in a weakened A10.
Jumping to the BE or American is really about trying to future-proof our program. Not hard to see us getting pushed out of the few really good non-conference home games we have now and seeing a weakened A10 conference schedule.
