Seems to me we only have one sure-shot way of getting into a power conference. It would be on the backs of our basketball programs and would require a massive change to the way the March Madness tv dollars are distributed. It would take the shutting off/reducing what goes to fund D2/D3 sports. If all of a sudden power conferences kept much more of that money, then UConn gets an invite immediately. $1.1 billion of tv revenue is what the tourney generates for the men's tourney alone. Say, 100m of that is kept at the D1/power level instead of flowing into D2/D3. That's a huge pot of dough that we could win part of for an all sports conference assuming theyd continue to use the games won credit system, so we'd leave the BE for riches in the Big12 or ACC (or maybe even the Big10 if they were still desperate basketball wise).
