We seem to be destined to remain in the A-10 for the indefinite future based on these comments from the AAC commisioner (and the success the BE has recently enjoyed). Now as many posters have pointed out, that is not necessarily a terrible thing in that we should find ourselves in the NCAAT each and every year as a rule of thumb. Then our success will be defined on advancing... Frankly I'm OK with that scenario as a worst-case. But there would be some satisfaction leaving a conference where too many members simply are along for the ride and the commisioner has no leverage to change that.
http://www.courant.com/sports/basket...407-story.html
From the referenced article:
The American Athletic Conference got the upgrade its men's basketball programs desired but, commissioner Mike Aresco asserted, the addition of Wichita State is not the start of a trend….
The conference took a half-step, adding Navy as a football-only member for 2015. Now, Wichita State, which dropped football in 1986, comes in to give the conference 12 members in men's and women's basketball.
But if you're waiting for the American to go after Atlantic 10 basketball programs like Dayton or Virginia Commonwealth, Aresco suggested that is not happening. Any future expansion would favor schools that play football and basketball.
"We sure are done for now," he said. "Being at 12 and 12 is extremely comfortable. … Adding one basketball school would not take us back to old days. If there is further expansion on horizon, you can do it on an orderly way. If you had multiple basketball schools, it would inhibit that."