We are arguably in a worse situation than the MWC... As long as the MWC, or any P5, gets an auto bid based on ranking, to a New Years day bowl, and they get another Million per team pay check from the FBS playoffs... and we get No Access to the New Years Day bowl game and only $300K...
Our TV $ is pennies different from the MWC and AAC. And a season like last year is so much more damaging as an Indy then it would be as a MWC/AAC member. At least you still get a cut of the conference bowl money... BYU got nothing.
We are only kidding ourselves if we think our situation is much better... it's either equal or slightly worse. We are very much like Blockbuster... we try to keep telling ourselves that people still want to come to a store to rent a DVD.