You think Idaho as a football only is a big deal? 4 teams will travel to Moscow each year, that's it. South Alabama flew to Hawaii last year and Arkansas State flew to Oregon. Flying to Idaho every other year (if you're in the West) and every 4 years (if your in the East) is not a big deal. If you were flying all sports there then it would be.

Idaho was added because the Sun Belt didn't want to add more FCS upgrades because as of right now 1/2 of the teams in the league will be a recent upgrades. Idaho gives them an already FBS team which has some name recognition (however minimal), also Idaho and NMSU both offset the non-fb schools UTA/UALR which helps reduce travel for the schools in the West in all sport other than fb.

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A little off-topic, but will either Idaho plans to build a proper football stadium on or off-campus, or its Kibble Dome gets re-modeled to comply with the FBS requirements to match, with about 30,000+ seats (if the school wants to still maintain in the FBS after leaving the WAC for re-joining the Big Sky in the 2014-15 season)? Otherwise, the Vandals must downgrade to FCS while re-modeling the Kibble Dome to at least 20,000 or 30,000 seats. I believe that New Mexico State should be next to leave the WAC and possibly either re-join the Sun Belt for all-sports (which the Aggies are currently re-joining, but as a football-only affiliate) or join C-USA.

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Idaho invite tells me the SBC knew its 12th member long ago. Or it would have been wise to hold off on the Idaho invite so to use that extra spot as leverage.

Article out of Winston Salem discussing next week's SBC meetings where expansion talks are expected at http://www.journalnow.com/sports/asu/ap ... f6878.html

SBC spring meetings began yesterday with the new league logo being unveiled.League expansion talks are expected thru this wednesday with a "possible" announcement later this week.Link to CBSSports blog article with photo of new logo at http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootbal ... a-new-logo

The new Sun Belt logo looks legit. Hope that it would reflect with the recent future changes within the conference.

Speaking of logos, and a little off-topic, how about changing the conference logo icons? You know, the ones when you plan to post a reply and stuff? Like the ones in the America East, the Big Sky, and the WAC.

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Logo has been added the the navbar at the top fo the site, conference realignment grid, etc

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Come to think of it, will the announcement for this Wednesday be anything related with any membership expansion (i.e.: a school or 2 to replace Western Kentucky)?

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Sun Belt tv deal extended 1 year.
http://www.ajc.com/weblogs/georgia-stat ... s-tv-deal/

Sun Belt and MAC looking to expand bowl line-ups.
http://msn.foxsports.com/collegefootbal ... eup-051613

Article out of Lafayette with comments from SBC Commish who says his league will not be expanding at this time.That position "may" change later this year.Link at http://www.theadvertiser.com/article/20 ... conference

translation: We'll take JMU when they're ready which would be after June 1 so they're still eligible for the 2013 fcs playoffs

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