Last week, I saw Conference USA's 2014 divisions for the first time. There are 13 teams this season, so the divisions are unbalanced (6 teams in the West and 7 in the East). Next season, Charlotte will join the conference as the 14th team. I assume Charlotte will be placed in the East division. The conference will then have balanced divisions (7 each), but someone who is in the East division this season will have to be bumped over into the West division next season. Looking at the map, my first guess is that team will be UAB. Geographically, they're the farthest West and I think it probably would be a good idea to keep them with Southern Miss. But my question and what I don't understand is why didn't they just go ahead and put UAB (or whomever) in the West division this year if they knew it was coming anyway? They bumped Southern Miss into the West this season, so why didn't they just go ahead and have UAB go with them?