West Georgia (currently DII) is looking to reclassify as DI and join the ASUN and UAC. Georgia Board of Regents will consider the request this Friday.
FCS Conference Shuffling
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Merrimack and Sacred Heart moving from NEC to MAAC.
The MAAC does not have football, but the NEC is known for not being all that cool about affiliate football members except in the case of Duquese. Including them, the NEC will have 6 football playing members after Merrimack and Sacred Heart leave. They may also run into issues with too few basketball playing members.
It's possible that this reorganization may have some impact on the Big South side of the OVC/Big South agreement that might be relevant to us.
The MAAC does not have football, but the NEC is known for not being all that cool about affiliate football members except in the case of Duquese. Including them, the NEC will have 6 football playing members after Merrimack and Sacred Heart leave. They may also run into issues with too few basketball playing members.
It's possible that this reorganization may have some impact on the Big South side of the OVC/Big South agreement that might be relevant to us.
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Sounds like the folks at AGS are thinking it's likely that they'll end up playing football in the Big South, which would mean we may end up playing them in a couple of years near the end of the OVC/Big South agreement. My hope is that the OVC is able to pull in a few other teams by then so they don't have to continue the OVC/Big South agreement. Maybe Austin Peay...Indiana State...some teams like that.ST_Lawson wrote: ↑Thu Oct 26, 2023 8:35 am Merrimack and Sacred Heart moving from NEC to MAAC.
The MAAC does not have football, but the NEC is known for not being all that cool about affiliate football members except in the case of Duquese. Including them, the NEC will have 6 football playing members after Merrimack and Sacred Heart leave. They may also run into issues with too few basketball playing members.
It's possible that this reorganization may have some impact on the Big South side of the OVC/Big South agreement that might be relevant to us.
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Robert Morris is heading back to the NEC as of the 2024 season: https://northeastconference.org/news/20 ... er_23.aspx
RMU was in the NEC from 1981 to 2020.
By the time we join the OVC next year, it'll be the usual OVC teams (UT Martin, SEMO, EIU, TN State, TN Tech, Lindenwood), plus Gardner-Webb and Charleston Southern from the Big South, and us, for 9 total teams. I'd imagine they'll probably switch to an 8-game conference schedule at that point...everyone plays everyone else every year, which is nice.
RMU was in the NEC from 1981 to 2020.
By the time we join the OVC next year, it'll be the usual OVC teams (UT Martin, SEMO, EIU, TN State, TN Tech, Lindenwood), plus Gardner-Webb and Charleston Southern from the Big South, and us, for 9 total teams. I'd imagine they'll probably switch to an 8-game conference schedule at that point...everyone plays everyone else every year, which is nice.
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Hearing some rumblings of Chicago St to the NEC
Looks like it's happening...leatherneckcountry wrote:Hearing some rumblings of Chicago St to the NEC
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