They do not have to start football up at FBS level right away. The schools that want to start football could go the route like South Alabama like Mercer, Stetson and Kennesaw State. West Florida could still be a Sun Belt conference for all other sports now, and start their football in 2015 and be at the FCS level until 20!8 to join SBC with football. Plus, since they completely lost are not in Florida, they need to find a school to join them. I read somewhere after Florida International left for C-USA, Benson said they would like to find Florida school to replace them. The only schools that are in big markets are west Florida, Jacksonville, Stetson, Florida A&M, Tampa U., North Florida and Florida A&M. Now, that is a hard choice to choose from.

For conference USA to help Marshall out more is to see if they can get a couple of Ohio MAC schools like Ohio U. And Toledo.

If C-USA loses more schools to the Big East and UTEP bolting to MWC. I suspect that C-USA will not get New Mexico State and Idaho at all. new Mexico State would slip into UTEP’s spot in C-USA and Western Kentucky gets in. I think C-USa suspecting they could lose more schools like UAB, Marshall (MAC), Tulsa, Southern Miss. and UTSA all in large tv markets could go. Delaware, James Madison, Southern Alabama, La.-Monroe, La.-Lafayette and Arkansas State could leave the Sun Belt. Now there was something that was slipped from a tv media news site in Texas that Lamar and Sam Houston State are moving to the SBC for all sports. It is a way for them to keep Texas State from bolting to another conference.

I think the schools that the Sun Belt will get are from markets on the East instead of the west.
Appalachian State
Georgia Southern
Stetson
West Florida (adding football in 2015 and broke ground building the stadium)
North Florida
Florida A&M
Central Arkansas (discount that rumor about them moving down to D2. It is the faculty talk that they are taken it out on the sports department because of corruption from the higher ups that had nothing to do with the sports there.)
Jackson State
South Carolina-Upstate
and Jacksonville State

As for the WAC? I think they could be close in adding Western Washington as well. It would be great to get more schools up to D1 from a large state like Washington, and Western Washington is in a large tv market and that could include Vancouver, British Columbia. I used to lived up there as a kid, and know Belleham and Vancouver are not that far apart.