The suburban conferences are a shell of their former selves. Top end schools are still pretty good, but the talent is nothing like it used to be, and will most likely never come back. I would see the day coming where more of the smaller schools have to start co-oping in order to survive. Multiple factors but privates poaching students who also happen to run real fast, lack of coaches, dwindling community support, etc. and things have really dropped at a lot of those schools.
