(04-18-2014 12:10 PM)Klak Wrote:  

(04-18-2014 12:07 PM)The4thOption Wrote:  

(04-18-2014 12:00 PM)FIUFan Wrote:  

(04-18-2014 11:46 AM)trueeagle98 Wrote:  My main point is that there is no reason to rush and many reasons to wait.

OK. Let's disect this. Right now the SBC is an eight team FBS conference. They lose WKU and add NMSU and Idaho which makes 9 schools for the 2014 season. As far as I know, App St. and GA Southern finish their 2 year transition in 2014. So for the 2015 season the Sun Belt sits at 11 full FBS members.

Will there be a CCG for 2015? Well, UMass can leave a year early, divisions can be created and a best record can host the CCG. So again, if the Sun Belt's timeline is to have this game in time for the end of the 2015 season, they have six weeks to get that 12th team in. Otherwise you can have some strange hybrid of the first place team hosting the second place team to determine a champion; which appears kind of awkward to me.

Just a note: GS and APP are eligible to win the Conference Championship THIS year. That point may be moot, but we are clear to win it IF WE CAN. We are just not bowl eligible until 2015.

That being said, if we add an FCS program, it needs to be my June 1st this year in order to have a CCG for 2015.

Since the 2014 Schedules are already set, it would still be 2015 before we could have a CCG anyway. The difference is that we could bring in a FBS program (UMASS) after the June 1 deadline and before the 2015 Schedule was set and still have the CCG.

The 6/1 deadline on the 2015 CCG for us only holds if we bring up an FCS and not UMass.

FCS -> FBS deadline is June 1.

FBS -> FBS deadline is July 1.

I suspect we'll hear more about UMass well before July 1.

Why would the deadline be July 1st of this year for FBS->FBS?
There is no transition period.

If we announce UMASS say July 20th? What difference does it make for the 2015 Season? Unless schedules for 2015 have to be submitted by 7/1/2014?