The ASUN would collaborate with the Coastal Collegiate Sports Association (CCSA) to build a new multisport conference. In one of the future scenarios, the current ASUN members partner with expansion members to form a new DI multisport conference.”
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203.On Wednesday, the ASUN Conference and Commissioner Ted Gumbart issued a very confusing statement that the league membership has “committed to a full exploration of multiple expansion opportunities. 86 while Bellarmine trails Liberty at No. The Flames are currently the highest ranked team in the ASUN at No. 176 and is 10-5 overall and 6-3 in the OVC. 127 and are 13-2 overall and 7-1 in the OVC, while Jacksonville State is ranked No. If Eastern Kentucky and Jacksonville State were in the ASUN this season, they would rank 2nd and 3rd in the league, according to the most recent NET rankings. The likelihood of the ASUN being able to jump as a group to the FBS is very unlikely and should not be a cause for worry for Liberty fans at this point.įor men’s basketball, these additions immediately improve the ASUN Conference. There have been rumblings of this ASUN football conference looking to make the jump as a group to the FBS and the ASUN then forcing Liberty to join the conference at that point. The Flames will continue to operate as an FBS Independent and this new FCS football conference will not affect Liberty football. The question we all ask, what does this mean for Liberty, and, specifically, Liberty football and men’s basketball?įor football, not much. The full list of the new 12-member ASUN coming this July: This will now transition to men’s and women’s basketball with two six-team divisions. This spring, for example, Liberty baseball will compete in the North Division of the ASUN alongside Bellarmine, Lipscomb, North Alabama, and Kennesaw State. The ASUN has gone to North and South divisions for sports this spring to reduce travel and due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “With 12 members, the ASUN will continue divisional play in 2021-22,” it states on the now deleted EKU page. Chattanooga and Austin Peay have been rumored possibilities.
The information on the now deleted EKU page indicates the ASUN fully intends on pursuing a sixth member. Currently, the ASUN partners with the Big South to allow its football playing members a path to the FCS playoffs. The ASUN football conference will pursue “immediate and ongoing annual access to automatic qualification to the FCS playoffs.” The FCS requires six football members that play scholarship FCS football. Liberty, as an FBS Independent, and Stetson, as a non-scholarship Pioneer Football League member, will not participate in this new FCS league. This new look league will have five schools which sponsor scholarship FCS football – the three newcomers as well as Kennesaw State and North Alabama, and the ASUN plans on launching an FCS scholarship football conference. It would bring the ASUN from its current 9 all-sport members to 12, and push the ASUN much closer to sponsoring a full scholarship FCS football league.Įastern Kentucky also published the following on its website before it was deleted, giving much more information on this proposed move.Īccording to this, these three rumored institutions are set to join the ASUN on Jand will begin competing in all sports during the 2021-22 academic year.
This news is expected to be formally announced in the next few weeks. On Monday, news leaked from EKU of a map of the new look ASUN including Central Arkansas, EKU, and Jacksonville State. The rumored additions of Eastern Kentucky and Jacksonville State continue to grow legs. He also hinted at as many as three other schools to join UCA in a revamped ASUN. Earlier this month, Central Arkansas’ Athletic Director announced the Bears would leave the Southland Conference to join the ASUN beginning with the 2021-22 athletic season. News of a revamped ASUN Conference continues to leak across the mid-major world.
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