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Message: <blockquote data-quote="drothgery" data-source="post: 3754679" data-attributes="member: 360"><p>Until recently, it wasn't all that difficult (Western Kentucky just did; UConn was probably the most notable after Marshall, and really, in the long run is probably more notable than Marshall though they've had less early success -- the Big East isn't the MAC or C-USA). But they don't have a big enough stadium to meet I-A attendance guidelines even if they sell out every game (though most of the MAC, WAC, C-USA, and Sun Belt don't actually sell enough tickets there, and neither does Duke), and they'd be the sixth I-A school (the 4 ACC schools and East Carolina) in a state that, by national averages, has about enough people to support 2 or 3, and that doesn't really support non-ACC sports. My understanding is that they've talked about it, but for various reasons (it'd be expensive, they probably wouldn't get much help from the NC state government, and it's more fun to be the big fish in a small pond than yet another mid-major) they've declined to move up.</p></blockquote><p></p>