You know aff, you are just too damn smart to be wasting your time posting on a message board like this. You should dedicate your massive intellect to something truly worthy of you. Something like world domination or inventing a feasible cold fusion process.
I doubt even S2C would bet any serious money on his musings. His real point, IMO, is that the BSC is probably going to experience some stress due to a reduction in the number of "core" members. That stress, along with other factors such as a relative dearth of attractive DI schools in close proximity to its footprint, is likely to give birth to unique solutions.