pressure keeping them from P5, and if they can't get good enough players and coaches to compete as independent, I have little interest in joining the MWC or AAC or some other to be formed conference.
Just go FBS for football and be a bunch of Rudy-esque RM's playing in the FCS. It would be more fun for me than being some pathetic G5 after thought. Which is what all the G5's are.