OFFICIAL: UCA to Atlantic Sun
https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/...s%20June%2030.
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The University of Central Arkansas will move from the Southland Conference to the Atlantic Sun Conference later this year, UCA athletic director Brad Teague confirmed Thursday to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
UCA is one of five Southland schools leaving the conference in 2021, and it will debut in the Atlantic Sun during the 2021 fall sports season. UCA’s final day in the Southland, which the Bears joined in 2007, is June 30.
Teague’s confirmation came hours after the long-rumored departures of four of the Southland’s Texas schools were made official by the Western Athletic Conference. Stephen F. Austin, Sam Houston State, Lamar University and Abilene Christian University will call that conference home beginning on July 1.
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Brad Teague stated "we are forming the new ASUN football league".
Kennesaw State
North Alabama
UCA
3 others
He also said he hopes to see UCA in the FBS in 2 to 3 years. xeyebrowx
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Originally Posted by
BEAR
Brad Teague stated "we are forming the new ASUN football league".
Kennesaw State
North Alabama
UCA
3 others
He also said he hopes to see UCA in the FBS in 2 to 3 years. xeyebrowx
Good luck to you guys. We are all in a transitional, crazy period. I think the Southland programs are actually ahead of the curve in preparing for the major changes in the NCAA realignment that is inevitable.
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With WAC and ASun football (the future United Conference) joining FCS, how will playoff auto bids be handled? Reduce at-large bids? Expand the field?
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Baron Sardonicus
With WAC and ASun football (the future United Conference) joining FCS, how will playoff auto bids be handled? Reduce at-large bids? Expand the field?
He covers that in this interview. Wow! Big changes happening!
https://youtu.be/SxP_PNJbiGk?t=2212
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Teague: A-Sun will be "all public schools."
Ok, then, the Big South becomes...
Campbell
Monmouth
Gardner-Webb
Hampton
Robert Morris
NC A&T (not a A-Sun target?)
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Originally Posted by
Baron Sardonicus
With WAC and ASun football (the future United Conference) joining FCS, how will playoff auto bids be handled? Reduce at-large bids? Expand the field?
Currently there are 10 FCS conferences that ACCEPT playoff auto-bids, if you include the MEAC now that the Celebration Bowl is done. Assuming no other FCS conferences fold (MEAC, Big South looking at you), we'd be at 12 with the formation of these 2 new leagues, meaning that the current 24-team setup would still follow NCAA guidelines -- 12 at large, 12 auto. The rule is that any NCAA tournament must include at least as many at-large bids as autos. So the only way the field would NEED to expand is if you ended up in a scenario where you had a field with 13 or more auto-bids.
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If UCA is making the move I can't see them doing that without the other football schools lined up. We know EKU and JSU have invites - does this mean they are accepting? That's five if they do - need at least one more.
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Originally Posted by
BEAR
Brad Teague stated "we are forming the new ASUN football league".
Kennesaw State
North Alabama
UCA
3 others
He also said he hopes to see UCA in the FBS in 2 to 3 years. xeyebrowx
Eastern Kentucky
Jacksonville State
Steston
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DFW HOYA
Teague: A-Sun will be "all public schools."
Ok, then, the Big South becomes...
Campbell
Monmouth
Gardner-Webb
Hampton
Robert Morris
NC A&T (not a A-Sun target?)
We said no
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WestCoastAggie
Eastern Kentucky
Jacksonville State
Steston
Do you know Stetson for sure or is that a guess? The reason I ask is I thought the A-Sun wanted to be a bus league and it's 14-15 hours driving time from Central Arkansas to Stetson. Are they wanting to move up from the Pioneer?