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[QUOTE="billybud, post: 1164880, member: 3850"]
I think that this is not completely thought out.

Folks, like MH VER, think that because Wake is a tiny school, that they won't have the money to play P5 football.  And thus jump to the conclusion that they will need to drop down.  I am not sure that this is so.  There are indicators that could go both ways.

The Wake President, Nathan Hatch,  is the Chair of the Div. I Board of Director's who came forth with the P5 initiative...and was recognized as a key architect of the plan.  He has supported the initiative all along.

[B]"It does provide degrees of autonomy for the five high-resource conferences," said Wake Forest President Nathan Hatch, the board chairman and a key architect of the plan. "This is not complete autonomy. We're still part of Division I, but I think it allows us to provide more benefits to student-athletes."[/B]

Now, saying that, Wake still has the lowest Athletic Department revenue of a P5 program...5% lower than Washington State's and about $3 million more than the median revenue of the AAC.
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