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Aug 23rd, 2011 |
By Matt Peloquin |
Category: Featured News, NCAA Conference Expansion & Realignment, NCAA Division Upgrades, SoCon Expansion & Realignment, Sun Belt Expansion & Realignment
A report out of Winston-Salem is citing sources who claim that the Appalachian St. committee voted on Monday to recommend to ASU Chancellor Ken Peacock, that the school upgrade to FBS football. Appalachian St. has been the subject of many FBS upgrade rumors over the past decade due to it’s success at the FCS level [...]
Tags: Featured News, NCAA Conference Expansion & Realignment, NCAA Division Upgrades, NCAA Expansion, SoCon expansion, SoCon Expansion & Realignment, Southern Conference Expansion, Sun Belt Expansion, Sun Belt Expansion & Realignment, Sunbelt expansion |
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Apr 7th, 2011 |
By Matt Peloquin |
Category: Featured News, NCAA Conference Expansion & Realignment, Sun Belt Expansion & Realignment
Things have settled from the movement last year with the Pac-12, Big Ten, Big 12, Mountain West and WAC. But there are still some aftershocks. The Big East is expected to add a 10th football school (Villanova tops the list, a CUSA school are the likely 2nd option). The MAC is considering adding FCS upgrade [...]
Tags: Featured News, NCAA Conference Expansion & Realignment, NCAA Expansion, Sun Belt Expansion, Sun Belt Expansion & Realignment, Sunbelt expansion |
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Nov 20th, 2010 |
By Matt Peloquin |
Category: Featured News, WAC Expansion & Realignment
State of the WAC – Part 3: WAC Winners and Losers The WAC realignment over the past few months has been filled with all sorts of drama. We’ve had a huge grab for regional power foiled at the last second by WAC members sabotaging from within. We’ve had recovery momentum build, new schools pledge allegiance [...]
Tags: Big Sky expansion, CUSA expansion, Editorial, Featured News, Mountain West expansion, Southland Expansion, Summit Expansion, Sunbelt expansion, WAC expansion, WAC Expansion & Realignment |
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Nov 20th, 2010 |
By Matt Peloquin |
Category: Featured News, WAC Expansion & Realignment
State of the WAC – Part 2:What Else Could Possibly Go Wrong? The quick answer: EVERYTHING. As we’ve seen in every other instance of conference realignment, there is always the impending “trickle down”. When one conference at the top of the pecking order makes a move, the next conference below follows and so on. For the [...]
Tags: Big East expansion, conference realignment, Editorial, Featured News, Mountain West expansion, Sunbelt expansion, WAC expansion, WAC Expansion & Realignment |
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Sep 2nd, 2010 |
By Matt Peloquin |
Category: Featured News, WAC Expansion & Realignment
Let’s face it LA Tech fans, being in the WAC now is a liability & not the advantage it was a year ago compared to the Sunbelt. Since 2001, LA Tech has been a member of the WAC. Many have questioned their membership as the conference was comprised of schools as west as Hawaii, San [...]
Tags: CUSA expansion, Featured News, Sunbelt expansion, WAC expansion, WAC Expansion & Realignment |
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Jun 7th, 2010 |
By Matt Peloquin |
Category: Featured News, NCAA Conference Expansion & Realignment
Over the past few months, everyone has an opinion about about what the conferences will look like when all the realignment is complete. But this past week, we’ve taken a step closer to having some real movement. So here’s what we know: Big Ten: * Wants Notre Dame, wants Texas. * Notre Dame wants to [...]
Tags: ACC expansion, Big 12 expansion, Big East expansion, conference realignment, Editorial, Featured News, Mountain West expansion, NCAA Conference Expansion & Realignment, NCAA Expansion, Pac-12 expansion, SEC expansion, Sunbelt expansion, WAC expansion |
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Mar 23rd, 2010 |
By Matt Peloquin |
Category: Featured News, Sun Belt Expansion & Realignment
In a recent interview, Arkasas-Little Rock AD Chris Peterson revealed that UALR has had discussions with the Summit League about joining should they leave the Sunbelt. Peterson said that the Trojans have had talks with the conference about potential membership given that the Sun Belt has toyed with the idea of wanting every member to [...]
Tags: conference realignment, expansion, Featured News, Sun Belt Expansion, Sun Belt Expansion & Realignment, Sunbelt expansion |
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Jan 20th, 2010 |
By Matt Peloquin |
Category: Featured News, NCAA Division Upgrades, Sun Belt Expansion & Realignment
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The school will leave the Sunbelt Conference in Division 1 and head to D3. May 15 is the deadline to submit the D3 application and the LSU Board of Supervisors voted 11-1 on the move. It’s a sound move by the school. It makes you wonder is schools like New Orleans had been in more [...]
Tags: Featured News, NCAA Division Upgrades, school news, Sun Belt Expansion, Sun Belt Expansion & Realignment, Sunbelt expansion |
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Nov 13th, 2009 |
By Matt Peloquin |
Category: Featured News, NCAA Division Upgrades, Sun Belt Expansion & Realignment
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The University of New Orleans announced it is exploring reclassification from Division I to Division III, effective with the 2010-11 academic year. The school cited budgetary concerns as its primary reason for considering the switch and committed to a decision by May 15, 2010. “We had to reduce funding for athletics in the previous round [...]
Tags: Featured News, NCAA Division Upgrades, Sun Belt Expansion, Sun Belt Expansion & Realignment, Sunbelt expansion |
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May 7th, 2009 |
By Matt Peloquin |
Category: Featured News, Sun Belt Expansion & Realignment
What a difference a few days makes for the UNO athletic department. Last week, a student vote to increase athletic fees failed, and UNO athletes, coaches and staff were told that athletic programs were in jeopardy. But UNO administrators told the same group Wednesday that, thanks to the pledged support of the local business community, [...]
Tags: Featured News, Sun Belt Expansion, Sun Belt Expansion & Realignment, Sunbelt expansion |
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