West Virginia might be in play for the Big and they could also make another run at Notre Dame?
West Virginia checks no boxes for the Big. It is not an AAU member and more importantly does no really bring any financial benefit to the Big However Many. Easy, and fashionable, and generally accurate as it is to be cynical about any claim joining academic integrity and College Football in the same sentence, each of the Big However Many's additions over the years has shared two attributes: they have been AAU members, and they have expanded the Big's reach into areas it has not been, usually with major population centers with lots of cable outlets.eager to buy into the network. Nebraska is a big of an outlier, but they were an AAU member when they joined and while they did not reach a major population center they had at the time a big football reputation. Other than Kansas the only Pure Prairie League team that clicks both boxes is Texas. The only schools that don't click both boxes I can see them going for would be Notre Dame which may not technically expand the foot print but has an attraction well beyond the geographical and which could be an AAU member if they gave a shit about such things, and Oklahoma which has an athletic reach and reputation that may bring enough for the league to ignore the a academics. West Virginia offers some rivalry options, and it is a relatively convenient foe for alumni travel, but that is not how the Big However Many has been thinking in the past.
Here is an interesting thought: Texas and Oklahoma are bound to the Pure Prairie League for three or four more years. I suspect they act together. I wonder if they can set up a bidding war between God's Conference and the Big However Many.
Other than that, the search for more members for the BHM is likely to take them to the ACC. Syracuse left the AAU at the same time Nebraska got kicked out, but the BHM would love the New York state market. Georgia Tech and the Atlanta market would cause a tidal wave of simultaneous jizz expulsion in the league office.