Big South Realignment

tkalmus · **Joined:** Fri Sep 10, 2010 11:40 pm **Posts:** 1043

gsohokiefan wrote:

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Longwood on doorstep of Big South Conference membership?

Longwood University has called a media conference for Monday on the Farmville campus and is expected to officially announce it will join the Big South Conference as its 12th member.

http://www2.timesdispatch.com/sports/college-sports/2012/jan/20/tdsport01-longwood-on-doorstep-of-big-south-confer-ar-1625305/

Huge news! So the only independent left is CSUB...

Fresno St. Alum · **Posted:** Sat Jan 21, 2012 5:24 am

damn, that took long enough. Very cool though. I wish the Big West or WAC would throw CSUB a bone. Or are there 5 Indy schools. The GWC 4 isn't a really conf. even though they think they are. The rule is 7 full member schools.

freaked4collegefb · **Joined:** Tue Jun 13, 2006 2:37 pm **Posts:** 7101

TSN article also discussing Longwood/Big South situation at http://aol.sportingnews.com/ncaa-basket ... -big-south

dafoeberezin3494 · **Posted:** Sun Jan 22, 2012 2:14 am

I'm kind of surprised it won't be Kennesaw State getting the Big South invite, since they will have football and the Big South needs FB schools. They must be okay with KSU being a football-only member.

Fresno St. Alum · **Posted:** Mon Jan 23, 2012 12:43 am

me too. I bet I have 4 or 5 posts on here thinking that KSU would be the 12th member. Maybe they go to 14 down the road, who knows.

accseahawk · **Posted:** Mon Jan 23, 2012 1:50 pm

they might not have wanted to be the southern most member of the big south or the current big south members may not have wanted to send non revenue sports into georgia. the big south has a nice layout in the mid atlantic region making travel relatively easy

congrats to longwood!

freaked4collegefb · **Joined:** Tue Jun 13, 2006 2:37 pm **Posts:** 7101

Release from Longwood site with announcement that they will be joining the Big South.Link at http://www.longwoodlancers.com/news/201 ... x?path=gen

tute79 · **Joined:** Fri Jun 23, 2006 4:25 pm **Posts:** 1510

Official announcement on Longwood:

http://www.longwoodlancers.com/news/201 ... x?path=gen

This seems to be cleaning up the D-1 independents in the East..... NJIT still needs a home.
I'm hoping after the supposedly upcoming MWC / CUSA merger, some WAC teams get invited, and the WAC does it's part to dissolve the Great West and CSU-Bakersfield.

The NCAA move to restrict movement, where no conference invitation exists seems like a good thing in terms of stability.

Fresno St. Alum · **Posted:** Mon Jan 23, 2012 9:30 pm

Well I think UNA deserves to be D-I but they need a home.

Fresno St. Alum · **Posted:** Thu May 03, 2012 5:16 pm

CCU sound like they are headed to the CAA. I also hear Liberty could be coming too.

http://www2.scnow.com/news/grand-strand ... .ly/JFMv0Z

wbyeager · **Posted:** Thu May 03, 2012 7:56 pm

The Big South would likely take Kennesaw State if they lose any football playing schools, as Kennesaw State plans to start play in 2014-if they were going to start one year sooner it would be perfect for the Big South.

North Alabama likely fills Kennesaw's slot in the Atlantic Sun, and their football team would have the option of either the Big South or Southland to offset one of the numerous non-football members between those two conferences.

Atlantic Sun
Northern Kentucky/East Tennessee State
Lipscomb/North Alabama
Mercer/South Carolina Upstate
Jacksonville/North Florida
Stetson/Florida Gulf Coast

If the SoCon lost a school North Alabam or Kennesaw State could sneak in there. Kennesaw State would likely replace Georgia Southern, as not having a school in Georgia would create a sizable hole in the footprint.

SJSUFan2010 · **Joined:** Mon Dec 06, 2010 7:52 pm **Posts:** 470

Fresno St. Alum wrote:

CCU sound like they are headed to the CAA. I also hear Liberty could be coming too.

http://www2.scnow.com/news/grand-strand ... .ly/JFMv0Z

Don't you love FCS realignment? So quick, so simple, so logical.

Fresno St. Alum · **Posted:** Thu May 03, 2012 8:08 pm

SJSUFan2010 wrote:

Fresno St. Alum wrote:

CCU sound like they are headed to the CAA. I also hear Liberty could be coming too.

http://www2.scnow.com/news/grand-strand ... .ly/JFMv0Z

Don't you love FCS realignment? So quick, so simple, so logical.

Yeah, we don't have to worry about Fordham being fb only in the Big Sky.

freaked4collegefb · **Joined:** Tue Jun 13, 2006 2:37 pm **Posts:** 7101

Couple of articles out of Carolina with update on Coastal Carolina looking to possibly move to another conference "like" the SoCon or CAA.Links at http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/2012/0 ... otion.html

and at http://www2.scnow.com/news/grand-strand ... ar-3732181

freaked4collegefb · **Joined:** Tue Jun 13, 2006 2:37 pm **Posts:** 7101

Release from site of Big South member Liberty announcing that it will release more details from it's FBS feasibility study at a presser Monday afternoon at 1 pm ET.Liberty is expected to explore finding a FBS conference invite.Link at http://www.libertyflames.com/index.cfm? ... ewsID=9058

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