The IPF was an investment that was necessary, and it was no small thing investment-wise. It will increase our chances of winning and therefore conference realignment. Where we play will not. Look, I love the idea that we will play on campus and students will be able to walk to the game. I will be proud and I contributed to it. And, honestly, and I'm not trying to set up a false dichotomy, but winning is light years ahead of an OCS in terms of importance for conference realignment, if an OCS is even a criterion for realignment and no one has been able to prove it is.
OCS - desirable, but not sufficient
Winning - sufficient
The slowest guy on a track team looks around and thinks, "Man, these guys have their own brand new expensive track shoes and I'm trying to compete with borrowed shoes. If I had their shoes I could beat them and a better school will want me to run for them!" But he is still the slowest guy on the team and the shoes never had anything to do with it and no one is recruiting him even with his brand new shoes.
Winning = needs
OCS = wants