Just curious, but that conference proposal leaves out a few teams, like SMU, Houston, and San Diego State....

I think that a big CUSA would be a good conference, and in this case, the bigger the better. I like the idea of 24 teams. Then you can split the conference into four sub-divisions. Each team would play 7 games in their own division, and then 2 games with teams from other divisions, and 3 non-conference games. Then petition the NCAA for a 2-game playoff at the end. Cherry picking teams from Sunbelt, Mountain West, WAC, CUSA, and MAC, I end up with this:

South
Southern Miss, UAB, Tulane, Troy, Ark State, LA Monroe, Fla Int, Louisiana Tech

East
Marshall, East Carolina, Temple, Buffalo, Akron, N. Ill, Miami, BG, Toledo, Ohio

Texas
Tulsa, Rice, UTEP, SMU, Houston, N. Texas, Colorado State, Air Force

Mountains
Wyoming, UNLV, New Mexico, Idaho, Fresno State, Nevada, Hawaii, San Diego State

Note that the East Division above has 10 teams, so you have to leave 2 out. Which 2? Let's hope Ohio wouldn't be one of them. Travel in this kind of a conference is going to be much lower than most of these teams have now. Also, because these four divisions are linked, you have the chance for much greater interest across a broad part of the US. Right now people in the west probably pay little or no attention to MAC results, and people the the MAC area play little attention to Mountain West results, but that would change if the conferences were united.

I am glad Temple is finally getting some fans to attend their football games. I remember driving up from Richmond to Philly with some VA Tech grads when Temple was in the BE. On the VA Tech side of the stadium was about 6-8000 fans and we guess that there were about 1000 Temple fans on the other side of stadium. The Richmond newspaper sent a guy to cover the game and the whole article on Sunday was about the 756 fans that he counted at the game.
After that game, VA Tech would only play Temple in Blacksburg.

Temple was on  "double secret probation" with the BE at that time. I believe Temple is only college in the history of the BCS  to get dropped down a level?

This is most certainly the nonsense I wont miss from MAC fans. They just make things up to suit themselves. Here's a factual account of the last game played in the series, in Philadelphia in 2003. There was never any edict about "playing only in Blacksburg." I'll eventually find the attendance and post but I would estimate it at about 25,000. If 24,300 chose to sit on the Tech side, so be it but that is as preposterous as your whole post.

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/scores103/103319/20031115NCAAFTEMPLE----0nr.htm#RCPS

MAC fans won't miss the dirty birds either I would bet. I thought the Solich haters from Nebr, were bad back in the day..........

SMU, Houston, and San Diego State are moving to the Big East next year. 

So, you're saying that the Big East invited SMU, Houston, San Diego State, Memphis, and Villanova ahead of Temple?

And Boise State, and TCU...