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(02-23-2018 02:36 PM)mturn017 Wrote:  

(02-23-2018 02:30 PM)Cyniclone Wrote:  Finally, I've heard time and time again on the realignment board that the NCAA doesn't allow FBS football-only conferences. So if that's the case, they'd have to fight to reverse the ban.

I don't think that's true. You can't have basketball only conferences.

I'm looking on Google now to see if there's any references one way or the other but not having any luck. I've only heard it on the realignment board but I've heard it a lot. Hell, maybe it's not a rule. That place would melt down if that were the case.

But to the best of my knowledge, there's never been a football-only FBS/1-A conference since the division split. There's a few in FCS (Pioneer, and technically CAAF and MVCF), but none in FBS. There's a definite logic to allowing them, because a large footprint isn't the barrier for one sport that plays four or five road conference games that it'd be for a multi-sport conference.