OK, so maybe a more accurate headline would be, "Expand or Stagnate" or "Expand or Wilt," but those are not nearly as attention-getting and I need your attention. 

This is important. 

You need to expand as soon as possible after the FBS upgrade moratorium is lifted.

It may seem like things are going great for the conference and the conference has finally turned the corner.  After all, the conference has had enough teams to play a full schedule for a couple years now.

You guys have the numbers to push out Denver and to not sweat over the possible loss of New Orleans over budgetary concerns.  Southern Alabama will start league football play in 2013.

Things look great...but really they aren't.