(04-29-2014 09:46 AM)slycat Wrote:  The tough part is that UMass won't help App St as an oly travel partner. If you bring in NMSU it means football and the oly sports will have different division splits which would be odd.

So my guess is western schools are trying to convince the east the UMass is temporary until a EKU or MSU or someone is ready in a few years. Liberty isn't going anywhere so until the conference feels they have no other options they won't be added.
The west and east probably can't agree so it's being delayed. When Benson was in the WAC, he tried to get FBS adds over and over and then finally agreed to look at FCS. Now the UMass is available, I'm sure it put a wrench in plans and now they are looking over everything again.
There isn't the same rush as there was last year to get GSU and App St because the 11 is better than 9.

What delay? These things are never settled until the face to face meetings occur. That's why they hold these meeting a couple of weeks before the fiscal year deadline (i.e. so they can vote and make their official media announcements).