I will miss the playoffs and trips to close venues, but after running some numbers this was a move that was clear based on the level of play at the FCS level going forward. Consider this, the level of play at the FCS level has no choice but to get worse when football has added and will add the following number of scholarship players at the FBS level from 2011-2015:

App 22
GSU 22
ODU 85
GA St. 85
USA 85
Texas St. 22
UMass 22
UNCC 85
UTSA 85

There are now 500+ more scholarships available at the FBS level (and that's not counting the full 85 for the FCS to FBS teams, which would be 765 more). That equates to an average of just under 5 scholarship players per FCS team that would be playing FCS five years ago vs. what you will see in 2015.

This will hurt the southeastern teams the most, I predict a lot of championships from NDSU, Montana, and western schools going forwards, perhaps that shift has already impacted the SoCon and we didn't even realize it.

I agree, I think the majority of the best teams and conferances have moved west. The 2 east coast conferences that best respresented the FCS, socon, caa, are now, on a steep decline in terms of competing for a NC. Would not suprise me to see the NC champ come out of the west for the nexr 4-5 years.

Some of those increases will be partials going to full at fcs to fbs schools. I get your point though, it will take some who had been falling to fcs.

I think the bigger question is: WHO CARES!!