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CCU moving to Sun Belt?
- Thread starter poiuyter
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Might as well label one NDSU and the other Montana.
statler & waldorf
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Idaho will get the boot and Liberty will get the slot.
Hrmmmmmm. Rumors must hit egriz before they hit CC forum.
billings_poke
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http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2015/08/31/coastal-carolina-sun-belt-conference/71494020/
not a rumor on Coastal carolina
Nobody wants Liberty at all
not a rumor on Coastal carolina
Nobody wants Liberty at all
statler & waldorf
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Idaho is a bottom feeder, with everthing but football in the BSC. Picked dead last this year, the option year for the Sun Belt Conf. which wants regional status, again. NMSU may be on the chopping block as well. With the recent Petrino problems, I think Idaho is BSC bound.
poiuyter said:
Thanks for the link. Someone needs to tell them over there.
IdaGriz01
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Yep. I deleted my post over there ... which said:signedbewildered said:
If they make an official announcement of the move as early as tomorrow, and want to be transitional in 2016, I wonder if they will raise the schollie limit right away. Seems like they would almost have to. And, if that's the case, they will take themselves out of the conference race and FCS playoffs right away.
Gonna be interesting to see what happens.
Then I found this at SB*Nation:
So Idaho could get a (temporary) reprieve by this conference playoff thing. Unless, of course, the dump ID and decide they want Liberty with the southeastern coast rivalries.
How does playoff eligibility work? If they accept are they out this year or when they become"transitional."
IdaGriz01
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Good question. Certainly they will be ineligible when they go "transitional." But also, if they want to start ramping up their # of scholarships, that would kick them out too.dupuyer griz said:
Also ... I'm pretty sure the SoCon declared App State and/or GaSouthern ineligible for the conference championship (and conference auto-bid) once they said they were leaving. Big South may do that too. I'm pretty sure ASU and GSU were still eligible for an at-large bid, however -- but that did not happen either, that I recall.
Last but not least ... Loss of CC takes the BigSo down to 6 teams, the lower limit. If Liberty found a way to go, wonder who the conference would recruit.
statler & waldorf
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Liberty and CCU are only HALF of the teams considered, all of which fit the regional profile.
IdaGriz01 said:
The NCAA will most likely deregulate conference championship games in January, meaning a 10 team conference (Big XII anyone?) can host a championship game beginning in 2016:
http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/13153927/proposal-deregulate-conference-title-games-advances-ncaa-council
New Mexico State desperately wanted to become a full member of the Sun Belt, and they hosted the conference within the last week or so. Idaho and NMSU have to be a little nervous, especially if conference title games are deregulated.
IdaGriz01
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Full article at STATS.com: http://www.fcs.football/cfb/story.asp?i=20150901135306215377104Haley said:
statler & waldorf
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Sun Belt commissioner noncommittal on Idaho's football future
By Dave Southorn
[email protected] 1, 2015 Updated 3 hours ago
Games like this last season, when Idaho played at Georgia Southern, may be a thing of the past if the Vandals aren’t extended past their current agreement with the Sun Belt, which ends after the 2017 season.
BRITTNEY LOHMILLER/AP
On Tuesday, the Sun Belt Conference officially added Coastal Carolina as its 12th football-playing member. It will begin play in the league in 2017, but ineligible for the postseason. In 2018, the Chanticleers will become full-time members of the Football Bowl Subdivision, moving up from the Football Championship Subdivision.
That also is the same year the Idaho Vandals could be in a different conference, or perhaps back in the FCS ranks.
Sun Belt commissioner Karl Benson addressed the league's future in a teleconference, and did not guarantee Idaho or New Mexico State, football-only members, would be around. Both schools signed four-year agreements in the spring of 2013, to begin with the 2014 season, up for extension after two seasons. The Sun Belt will decide whether or not to extend those agreements in January, Benson said.
"That process will occur after the 2015 season, there will be an evaluation, an assessment and a decision made whether to extend the football-only membership for New Mexico State and Idaho," Benson said. "I think it’s premature now to even speculate as to what that decision is."
Also around that time, Benson expects the NCAA to lift its requirement to have a minimum of 12 teams for a conference championship game.
"That will then kind of set the course of action in terms of whether we can conduct the game whether we’re a 12-, 11- or 10-team league," Benson said.
In an interview with the Idaho Statesman in late March, Idaho Athletic Director Rob Spear was asked about the impending decision, and he said "all indications" were that the agreement would be extended. The Vandals have one win each of the last three seasons (two against the Aggies) and were projected to finish last this season by the league's coaches. New Mexico State has four wins the last two seasons, with one of them coming against Idaho.
Read more here: http://www.idahostatesman.com/2015/09/01/3965458/sun-belt-commissioner-noncommittal.html#storylink=cpy
By Dave Southorn
[email protected] 1, 2015 Updated 3 hours ago
Games like this last season, when Idaho played at Georgia Southern, may be a thing of the past if the Vandals aren’t extended past their current agreement with the Sun Belt, which ends after the 2017 season.
BRITTNEY LOHMILLER/AP
On Tuesday, the Sun Belt Conference officially added Coastal Carolina as its 12th football-playing member. It will begin play in the league in 2017, but ineligible for the postseason. In 2018, the Chanticleers will become full-time members of the Football Bowl Subdivision, moving up from the Football Championship Subdivision.
That also is the same year the Idaho Vandals could be in a different conference, or perhaps back in the FCS ranks.
Sun Belt commissioner Karl Benson addressed the league's future in a teleconference, and did not guarantee Idaho or New Mexico State, football-only members, would be around. Both schools signed four-year agreements in the spring of 2013, to begin with the 2014 season, up for extension after two seasons. The Sun Belt will decide whether or not to extend those agreements in January, Benson said.
"That process will occur after the 2015 season, there will be an evaluation, an assessment and a decision made whether to extend the football-only membership for New Mexico State and Idaho," Benson said. "I think it’s premature now to even speculate as to what that decision is."
Also around that time, Benson expects the NCAA to lift its requirement to have a minimum of 12 teams for a conference championship game.
"That will then kind of set the course of action in terms of whether we can conduct the game whether we’re a 12-, 11- or 10-team league," Benson said.
In an interview with the Idaho Statesman in late March, Idaho Athletic Director Rob Spear was asked about the impending decision, and he said "all indications" were that the agreement would be extended. The Vandals have one win each of the last three seasons (two against the Aggies) and were projected to finish last this season by the league's coaches. New Mexico State has four wins the last two seasons, with one of them coming against Idaho.
Read more here: http://www.idahostatesman.com/2015/09/01/3965458/sun-belt-commissioner-noncommittal.html#storylink=cpy