It is that time of the year when conference realignment starts. I will try and keep this updated. Schools in Bold have moved or created a program. I know there will be more movements. Just let me know. Version 1.0 America East Albany Binghamton Hartford Mass-Lowell New Hampshire Stony Brook UMBC Vermont American Athletic Central Florida Cincinnati Connecticut Memphis Navy - in 2015 South Florida Southern Methodist Temple Tulsa Atlantic 10 Davidson Dayton Duquesne Fordham George Mason George Washington La Salle Massachusetts Rhode Island Saint Joseph's Saint Louis St. Bonaventure Virginia Commonwealth Atlantic Coast Conference Boston College Clemson Duke Louisville NC State North Carolina Notre Dame Pittsburgh Syracuse Virginia Virginia Tech Wake Forest Atlantic Sun Conference Florida Gulf Coast Jacksonville Lipscomb Northern Kentucky North Florida Stetson South Carolina-Upstate Big East Conference Butler Creighton DePaul Georgetown Marquette Providence Seton Hall St. John's Villanova Xavier Big South Conference Campbell Coastal Carolina Gardner Webb High Point Liberty Longwood Presbyterian College Radford UNC Ashville Winthrop Big Ten Indiana Maryland Michigan Michigan State Northwestern Ohio State Penn State Rutgers Wisconsin Big West Conference Cal Poly - SLO CS Fullerton CS Northridge UC Davis UC Irvine UC Riverside UC Santa Barbara Sacramento State Colonial Athletic Association College of Charleston College of William and Mary Delaware Drexel Elon George Mason Hofstra James Madison Northeastern UNC Wilmington Conference USA Alabama-Birmingham UNC Charlotte Florida Atlantic Florida International Kentucky Marshall New Mexico Old Dominion South Carolina Horizon League Cleveland State Detroit Green Bay Loyola (IL) Milwaukee Oakland UIC Valparaiso Wright State Independent Belmont Georgia State Georgia Southern ??? No word what will happen to their soccer program Howard Incarnate Word NJIT Ivy Group Brown Columbia Cornell Dartmouth Harvard Penn Princeton Yale Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Canisius Fairfield Iona Manhattan Marist Monmouth Niagara Quinnipiac Rider Siena St. Peter's Mid-American Conference Akron Bowling Green Buffalo Hartwick Northern Illinois West Virginia Western Michigan Missouri Valley Conference Bradley Central Arkansas Drake Evansville Loyola-Illinois Missouri State SIU Edwardsville Northeast Conference Bryant Central Connecticut Fairleigh Dickinson Long Island-Brooklyn Robert Morris Sacred Heart St. Francis (NY) St. Francis (PA) Pac 12 California Oregon State San Diego State Stanford UC Los Angeles Washington Patriot League American Army Boston University Bucknell Colgate Holy Cross Lafayette Lehigh Loyola (MD) Navy - until 2015 Southern Conference Appalachian State - leaving for the Sun Belt, but soccer will stay in the So Con East Tennessee St Furman Mercer UNC Greensboro VMI Wofford Summit League Denver Eastern Illinois IPFW IUPUI Nebraska-Omaha Oakland Oral Roberts Western Illinois West Coast Conference Gonzaga Loyola Marymount Pacific Portland San Diego San Francisco Santa Clara St. Mary's Western Athletic Conference Air Force Chicago St CS Bakersfield Grand Canyon Houston Baptist Missouri-KC San Jose State Seattle UNLV UVU UTPA - 2015
Navy is going to the American in football only. They will remain in the Patriot for every other sport, including soccer.
Here's a handy chart (in the first post) for keeping up with all the conference changes. It separates the football changes from everything else. http://csnbbs.com/showthread.php?tid=567087
Version 1.1 America East Albany Binghamton Hartford Mass-Lowell New Hampshire Stony Brook UMBC Vermont American Athletic Central Florida Cincinnati Connecticut Memphis South Florida Southern Methodist Temple Tulsa Atlantic 10 Davidson Dayton Duquesne Fordham George Mason George Washington La Salle Massachusetts Rhode Island Saint Joseph's Saint Louis St. Bonaventure Virginia Commonwealth Atlantic Coast Conference Boston College Clemson Duke Louisville NC State North Carolina Notre Dame Pittsburgh Syracuse Virginia Virginia Tech Wake Forest Atlantic Sun Conference Florida Gulf Coast Jacksonville Lipscomb Northern Kentucky North Florida Stetson South Carolina-Upstate Big East Conference Butler Creighton DePaul Georgetown Marquette Providence Seton Hall St. John's Villanova Xavier Big South Conference Campbell Coastal Carolina Gardner Webb High Point Liberty Longwood Presbyterian College Radford UNC Ashville Winthrop Big Ten Indiana Maryland Michigan Michigan State Northwestern Ohio State Penn State Rutgers Wisconsin Big West Conference Cal Poly - SLO CS Fullerton CS Northridge UC Davis UC Irvine UC Riverside UC Santa Barbara Sacramento State Colonial Athletic Association College of Charleston College of William and Mary Delaware Drexel Elon George Mason Hofstra James Madison Northeastern UNC Wilmington Conference USA Alabama-Birmingham UNC Charlotte Florida Atlantic Florida International Kentucky Marshall New Mexico Old Dominion South Carolina Horizon League Cleveland State Detroit Green Bay Loyola (IL) Milwaukee Oakland UIC Valparaiso Wright State Independent Belmont Georgia State Georgia Southern ??? No word what will happen to their soccer program Howard Incarnate Word NJIT Ivy Group Brown Columbia Cornell Dartmouth Harvard Penn Princeton Yale Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Canisius Fairfield Iona Manhattan Marist Monmouth Niagara Quinnipiac Rider Siena St. Peter's Mid-American Conference Akron Bowling Green Buffalo Hartwick Northern Illinois West Virginia Western Michigan Missouri Valley Conference Bradley Central Arkansas Drake Evansville Loyola-Illinois Missouri State SIU Edwardsville Northeast Conference Bryant Central Connecticut Fairleigh Dickinson Long Island-Brooklyn Robert Morris Sacred Heart St. Francis (NY) St. Francis (PA) Pac 12 California Oregon State San Diego State Stanford UC Los Angeles Washington Patriot League American Army Boston University Bucknell Colgate Holy Cross Lafayette Lehigh Loyola (MD) Navy Southern Conference Appalachian State - leaving for the Sun Belt, but soccer will stay in the So Con East Tennessee St Furman Mercer UNC Greensboro VMI Wofford Summit League Denver Eastern Illinois IPFW IUPUI Nebraska-Omaha Oakland Oral Roberts Western Illinois West Coast Conference Gonzaga Loyola Marymount Pacific Portland San Diego San Francisco Santa Clara St. Mary's Western Athletic Conference Air Force Chicago St CS Bakersfield Grand Canyon Houston Baptist Missouri-KC San Jose State Seattle UNLV UVU UTPA - 2015[/quote]
Just a head's up. Sun Belt Conference is going to add men's soccer. Voted 11 in favor and 3 abstained votes a few months ago. The conference is currently taking applications to add 3-4 affiliates to add to GA State, GA Southern and Appalachian State to get them to 6 or 7 to have an automatic bid. Should know in early January who is joining
[/quote] Thanks for all that work. This elucidates the point that the minimum for auto bid needs to be raised. Where is it now? 6? 7? Raise it to 8 minimum.
We have already learned elsewhere that New Mexico State is adding MSOC. Add them to the Sun Belt schools who already field WSOC and you have this list. (I suppose it is possible that abstaining votes will field a team anyway, increasing the list even further.) Like to see it! 1. UALR 2. Arkansas State 3. Georgia State 4. UL-Lafayette 5. UL-Monroe 6. South Alabama 7. UT Arlington 8. Texas State 9. Troy 10. Western Kentucky 11. New Mexico State Please correct me once this list is published. In particular, I really would like to see UALR add MSOC.
I had not heard this. I would be Belmont, Howard, Incarnate Word (if they do not go to the WAC) and NJIT have/will find a new home.
NMSU is in the WAC. They have said that they are considering Mens soccer, but no announcement yet. They will be in the Sun Belt for football only. I would also not assume that because the conference added men's soccer as a sport, that all teams will now field a team. I would be very surprised to see this happen, I would love it, but it would surprise me. I would be that the Sun Belt is as follows: GA Southern GA State App State Howard Belmont NJIT Incarnate Word and maybe one more.
Version 1.2 America East Albany Binghamton Hartford Mass-Lowell New Hampshire Stony Brook UMBC Vermont American Athletic Central Florida Cincinnati Connecticut Memphis South Florida Southern Methodist Temple Tulsa Atlantic 10 Davidson Dayton Duquesne Fordham George Mason George Washington La Salle Massachusetts Rhode Island Saint Joseph's Saint Louis St. Bonaventure Virginia Commonwealth Atlantic Coast Conference Boston College Clemson Duke Louisville NC State North Carolina Notre Dame Pittsburgh Syracuse Virginia Virginia Tech Wake Forest Atlantic Sun Conference Florida Gulf Coast Jacksonville Lipscomb Northern Kentucky North Florida Stetson South Carolina-Upstate Big East Conference Butler Creighton DePaul Georgetown Marquette Providence Seton Hall St. John's Villanova Xavier Big South Conference Campbell Coastal Carolina Gardner Webb High Point Liberty Longwood Presbyterian College Radford UNC Ashville Winthrop Big Ten Indiana Maryland Michigan Michigan State Northwestern Ohio State Penn State Rutgers Wisconsin Big West Conference Cal Poly - SLO CS Fullerton CS Northridge UC Davis UC Irvine UC Riverside UC Santa Barbara Sacramento State Colonial Athletic Association College of Charleston College of William and Mary Delaware Drexel Elon George Mason Hofstra James Madison Northeastern UNC Wilmington Conference USA Alabama-Birmingham UNC Charlotte Florida Atlantic Florida International Kentucky Marshall New Mexico Old Dominion South Carolina Horizon League Cleveland State Detroit Green Bay Loyola (IL) Milwaukee Oakland UIC Valparaiso Wright State Independent Belmont Howard Incarnate Word NJIT Ivy Group Brown Columbia Cornell Dartmouth Harvard Penn Princeton Yale Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Canisius Fairfield Iona Manhattan Marist Monmouth Niagara Quinnipiac Rider Siena St. Peter's Mid-American Conference Akron Bowling Green Buffalo Hartwick Northern Illinois West Virginia Western Michigan Missouri Valley Conference Bradley Central Arkansas Drake Evansville Loyola-Illinois Missouri State SIU Edwardsville Northeast Conference Bryant Central Connecticut Fairleigh Dickinson Long Island-Brooklyn Robert Morris Sacred Heart St. Francis (NY) St. Francis (PA) Pac 12 California Oregon State San Diego State Stanford UC Los Angeles Washington Patriot League American Army Boston University Bucknell Colgate Holy Cross Lafayette Lehigh Loyola (MD) Navy Southern Conference East Tennessee St Furman Mercer UNC Greensboro VMI Wofford Summit League Denver Eastern Illinois IPFW IUPUI Nebraska-Omaha Oakland Oral Roberts Western Illinois Sun Belt Georgia State Georgia Southern Appalachian State West Coast Conference Gonzaga Loyola Marymount Pacific Portland San Diego San Francisco Santa Clara St. Mary's Western Athletic Conference Air Force Chicago St CS Bakersfield Grand Canyon Houston Baptist Missouri-KC San Jose State Seattle UNLV UVU UTPA - 2015 NMSU - nothing announced but they are investigating possibility Updated with addition of the Sun Belt.
JMU almost certainly moving FBS. SunBelt bound? http://www.timesdispatch.com/sports...cle_4a9ef16e-eb73-5ea8-84cc-815cc3be26d4.html
That is the speculation right now. Liberty also wanted in to either the Sun Belt or CUSA and were rejected by both.
We have established that New Mexico State is adding MSOC. Right? According to Sun Belt Conference official website, New Mexico State is joining in 2014. Right? New Mexico State is therefore obligated to play MSOC in the Sun Belt Conference. Right?
This type of "outside agency" making recommendations will almost certainly lead to a jump. I am guessing it will be done fairly soon. Meanwhile, Temple today just cut 7 sports (not Men Soccer) http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/local&id=9351556 and Robert Morris did likewise (again men soccer was spared) http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2013/12/03/rmu-cuts-7-varsity-sports-says-funding-spread-too-thin/ All in all we should be counting or blessings that we are talking of expansions for our beloved sport!!
As an NMSU alum, I am well aware of this. NMSU is only joining for American Football. They want to join for all sports, but have been turned down. In addition to this, the AD has mentioned that NMSU might add Men's Soccer in the future, there has been no timetable for this, or even if it will happen. I would love to see it happen. If they did get an all sports invite to the Sun Belt, yes they would play all sports in the Sun Belt, but as it stands, it is American Football only.
Nice to see that both schools kept men's soccer. Interesting to see that both AD's used the term "Right-sizing". I think that we will see more of this.
UALR used to have soccer and dropped it in the late 80's. Stetson Head Coach Logan Fleck was the coach there at one time. As did South Alabama and Western Kentucky.
I liked the UTPA name and think they should have kept it. The school is so close to the Mexican border and as a gateway between the two countries, "Pan American" represents this well. But they were determined to get a name change. One of the early options was UTLA (Las Americas). That would have been my preferred choice.
As part of the agreement to join the WAC, then UTPA agreed to start a men's soccer program. With the union with UT-B (which had a D-III program). I would assume that they will continue to work towards launching their program in 2015. http://www.utpabroncs.com/index.aspx?path=msoc
The Rio Grande Valley has huge potential as a soccer area and a program that can get good players from there can do very well. It reminds me of the effort to get the Rio Grand Valley residents registered to vote and to the polls - it can be a game-changer politically. Of course, theorizing about it and actually getting it done, be it in soccer or voting, are two different things.