CUSA has already formally supported the cost of attendance increase.
Can anyone show me a quote from a Marshall administrator saying that we would not comply with new D1 requirements...
Waits...
No. You can't, because we will meet the new requirements. Will it be somewhat difficult at first? Of course. Some from CUSA, the MAC, MW, SB, and even possibly the AAC may choose to drop down, but we'll remain a D1 member. As I've said 1,000 times, the new regulations are much more of an attack on the McNeese State type/non-D1 football schools of the world. The large schools don't want the tiny non-D1 football schools to have an equal vote.
Further, the large schools need the smaller schools to fill football schedules. The idea to band together, form our own "small school football cartel," and raise the price of one-and-done games is exactly what will happen. Unfortunately, the easiest way for the non-AQ schools to increase their budgets is to play a one-and-done money game or two each year.
Most of the non-AQ schools aren't going anywhere. The AQ schools want no part of 13 game schedules only against each other (more likely to take losses and, more importantly, you lose home games). The SEC just voted against going to a 9 game schedule. Nearly all of the SEC schools play a 1-AA school this year. The most likely outcome of all of this, as mentioned above, is more one-and-done games (for a big price) between the AQ and non-AQ.