NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- The University of New Orleans may become Louisiana's second school to begin a move from the NCAA's Division I to Division III.
UNO, the city's largest public university at 11,800 students and only about 100 students smaller than Tulane, announced Wednesday that it is considering such a drop.
The board of trustees for Centenary, a Methodist school in Shreveport with fewer than 900 undergraduate students, voted in July to make the switch, which requires approval by the NCAA.
Only five other schools have done so since 1981. Birmingham-Southern, which began the process in 2006, was the first in this decade.
Link: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/basketball/ncaa/11/11/new.orleans.ap/
My take and how it affects Georgia State: The Sun Belt (if it hasn't already) will contact our Athletic Dept. and guage interest. I fully expect Tulane to drop down classifications as well. There will be a choice of Conference USA and/or Sun Belt if we choose to go Division 1. I beleive this is a great opportunity and it will be up to us and our fundraising efforts to make this jump.
Ben,
ReplyDeleteVery interesting. I like the idea of playing in C-USA over the Sun Belt. So your thought that Tulane might drop down as well is interesting, but why do you think so?
"There will be a choice of Conference USA and/or Sun Belt if we choose to go Division 1."
ReplyDeleteYou mean Georgia State doesn't already play Division 1 Athletics? I guess since you guys can't even compete in the CAA, that might be an accurate representation.
He was referring to football there dumbass.
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