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As has been expected over the past few weeks, the Southland Conference is set to expand by adding Incarnate Word University, Abilene Christian University and University of New Orleans. IWU and ACU will join for FCS football as well, upgrading from Division 2, with UNO set to join for non-football sports on Thursday. The addition of the 3 schools follows the additions of Oral Roberts and Houston Baptist, bringing a total of 5 new schools to the conference. The Southland recently lost Texas St., UTSA and Texas-Arlington to the WAC, although those 3 schools will all be leaving the WAC next season.

http://collegesportsinfo.com/2012/08/21 ... u-and-acu/

Interesting that New Orleans is joining the conference. It didn't take the Privateers long to get out of Divison III.

wkuhillhound wrote:Interesting that New Orleans is joining the conference. It didn't take the Privateers long to get out of Divison III.

They never made it to D-III, they couldn't find a home in the American Southwest. If they woulda just waited a few months there would have been 4 openings, they then played a year in D-II in the Gulf South and were going to start fb in 2015. They then ended up just staying D-I since they were only provisional D-II.

EPJr wrote:

Wait a minute.

89Hen wrote:

EPJr wrote:

Wait a minute.

The Privateer is Robert Morris' black sheep brother...

They added 1 good football team, in ACU. Incarnate will take time to get up to speed and Houston Baptist has to start from scratch.

Oral Roberts will compete immediately in Baseball.

For the immediate future, the SLC just went from middle of the pack to slightly worse.

Overall, you may be right, CM. But the upper end of the conference (McNeese, SHSU) will still likely compete for titles, unless rkw has his way.

ACU should be fine.