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[TexasTerror]

This will make UNLV scream...

Thanks to JoshUCA for providing this article and it's definitely worth keeping an eye on for Southland schools and others in the region...

Basically if the LSC rejects UIW, the President feels there is no other option than going Division I, particularly into the Southland. They can have the spot occupied by Texas State-San Marcos or UTSA, as one of them seems likely to leave the league. It'd keep the SLC in that area, though they'd have to pour even more money in...

He's the mastermind, the unquestioned leader of the school's unprecedented growth in recent years.

So when University of the Incarnate Word president Louis Agnese, awash in pride over his new football team, suggests taking UIW's athletics programs into NCAA Division I by 2012, it's not a surprise.

“We're not that little college at the corner of Broadway and Hildebrand anymore,†he said.

UIW and Division I?

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[Guest abovetherim]

Please this is a bad dream, UIW to the SLC no thanks.

[UNLV]

Scream of joy. I say yes.

[TexasTerror]

Thread on D2 board about it...

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[Guest coachacola]

The SLC has a history of bringing in D2 schools so if someone leaves then UIW could join the SLC.  Now if LU is still in the SLC when this happens then I'll give up on LU sports forever.

[UNLV]

LSC might take them because UCO and Tarleton wants out.

For the slc, Tarleton, UCO, and North Alabama in....

[TexasTerror]

LSC might take them because UCO and Tarleton wants out.

For the slc, Tarleton, UCO, and North Alabama in....

I think the pecking order of Div II schools is...

1) Tarleton St

2) Delta State

Houston Baptist, though Div I would fall behind UIW in the pecking order with UIW having football...

North Alabama would be fun, but I just do not see them coming into the SLC. The OVC may be their stomping grounds, especially with Samford now in the SoCon and JaxSt possibly going FBS. UCO has loads of financial issues from what I hear...