Trying To Improve Your Lot In Life

Tulane is on the move up from C-USA to the Big East.  Upgrade? (Photo via NOLA.com)

One of the things we as humans attempt to accomplish is to move up in life.  Always looking for something better, in all facets.  This basic human notion is not lost on the landscape of college sports, as we all have seen recently.  However, the movement between Mountain West, Big East, and Conference USA schools have us wondering... at what point is it improvement, and at what point is all of this just nonsense?