NCAA Conference Expansion & Realignment

Conference Realignment: What’s Up Next?

Feb 17th, 2012 | By Matt Peloquin | Category: ACC Expansion & Realignment, Big 12 Expansion & Realignment, Big East Expansion & Realignment, Big Ten Expansion & Realignment, College Sports Television News, Conference USA Expansion & Realignment, Editorial, Featured News, Mountain West Expansion & Realignment, NCAA Conference Expansion & Realignment, SEC Expansion & Realignment, Sun Belt Expansion & Realignment, WAC Expansion & Realignment

The Recap: So the ACC struck first by adding Syracuse and Pittsburgh from the Big East. The SEC followed by adding Texas A&M and Missouri from the Big 12. The Big 12 then added TCU and WVU. And things seemed normal. Patterns remained intact. And we waited for the next, seemingly logical move. And then [...]

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CUSA & Mountain West to Form New Conference

Feb 8th, 2012 | By Matt Peloquin | Category: Conference USA Expansion & Realignment, Featured News, Mountain West Expansion & Realignment, NCAA Conference Expansion & Realignment

Update: It is official. CUSA and the Mountain West will both fold their conferences and merge under a yet to be named conference name. Member ship could still grow with schools such as Temple, Utah St., San Jose St. and others as potential candidates. With Memphis no longer in the mix as they head for [...]

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Memphis To Join Big East for All Sports

Feb 7th, 2012 | By Matt Peloquin | Category: Big East Expansion & Realignment, Conference USA Expansion & Realignment, Featured News, NCAA Conference Expansion & Realignment

When the Big East invited CUSA members Houston, UCF and SMU, passing over Memphis, the long-time dreams of getting into the conference for the Tigers seemed dead. And if that wasn’t enough, when the school went to west coast an invited San Diego St. and Boise St. to join for football, it looked like the [...]

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UTPA To Meet With Southland Conference

Jan 31st, 2012 | By Matt Peloquin | Category: Featured News, Great West Expansion & Realignment, NCAA Conference Expansion & Realignment, Southland Expansion & Realignment

With all the movement over the past 6 months, UTPA has been hoping their number would be called and given a life raft away from the Great West. that might soon happen in the form of a Southland Conference invitation. Per Peter Rasmussen (@parasmuss), UTPA is set to meet with the Southland. The Southland is dealing [...]

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Navy to Join Big East in 2015

Jan 24th, 2012 | By Matt Peloquin | Category: Big East Expansion & Realignment, Featured News, NCAA Conference Expansion & Realignment

After years of passing on conference membership in favor of independence, Navy is finally set to pledge it’s allegiance to the coast-to-coast football conference. Navy had passed on the idea of joining in previous years, opting for it’s more national schedule. But with the addition of San Diego St., a prominent city for Navy, along with [...]

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Longwood to Join Big South

Jan 23rd, 2012 | By Matt Peloquin | Category: Big South Expansion & Realignment, Featured News, NCAA Conference Expansion & Realignment

After upgrading to Division 1 during the 2003-2004 season, and passed over for year, Longwood has finally found a Division 1 home. Longwood will announce today that they have joined the Big South. The conference has always made the most sense for Longwood, with nearby VMI, Radford and Liberty as members. Not sponsoring football was [...]

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Basketball Only Super Conference?

Dec 22nd, 2011 | By Matt Peloquin | Category: Big East Expansion & Realignment, Featured News, NCAA Conference Expansion & Realignment

An interesting read in the Chronicle today about the proposed formation of a non-football “super conference” comprised of Big East schools and others, an idea brought up by 2 current Big East non-football schools. Who they are is still unknown, but if you’re thinking Marquette and Depaul, you could be correct. The rationale is understandable: [...]

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Liberty Considers FBS Upgrade

Dec 15th, 2011 | By Matt Peloquin | Category: Big South Expansion & Realignment, Featured News, NCAA Conference Expansion & Realignment, NCAA Division Upgrades

When the news broke of Turner Gill accepting the head coaching job at Liberty, an FCS school, some scratched their heads. The migration of coaches from an FCS head job to an FBS head coaching gig is much more difficult than simply taking a coordinator position at an existing FBS school. But when Liberty announced [...]

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NKU to Atlantic Sun

Dec 8th, 2011 | By Matt Peloquin | Category: Atlantic Sun Expansion & Realignment, NCAA Conference Expansion & Realignment, NCAA Division Upgrades, Summit League Expansion & Realignment

While the Summit League had looked like a likely destination for Northern Kentucky University, the school ultimately opted to join the Atlantic Sun. NKU will pay the Atlantic Sun $200,000 over the span of 5 years and will join in 2012, as the first year of their upgrade to Division 1 athletics.

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Air Force Passes on Big East

Dec 8th, 2011 | By Matt Peloquin | Category: Featured News, Mountain West Expansion & Realignment, NCAA Conference Expansion & Realignment

With the 3 CUSA schools headed to the Big East, along with Boise St. and SDSU from the west, it seemed like there would be enough stability to entice Air Force into joining the Big East for football only. Yet despite the loss of two Mountain West schools, Air Force has officially opted to remain [...]

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