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.
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.
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.
SuperHornet's Athletics Hall of Fame includes Jacksonville State kicker Ashley Martin, the first girl to score in a Division I football game. She kicked 3 PATs in a 2001 game for J-State.
