Another D-II school making the jump to Division-I

[tornado]

Northern Kentucky will begin the jump and transition period next year 2012-2013 --
this is DeAaron Williams' alma mater.....

http://www.wvillustrated.com/wvubasketball/story/id/1237

They have a 10,000 seat arena and are looking at possibly joining the Summit League

http://collegesportsinfo.com/2011/04/08/northern-kentucky-university-plans-division-1-upgrade/

UC-San Diego, Northern Alabama, and Nebraska-Omaha are also trasitional D-I candidates

[amettrick]

I think it's time the rules for what qualifies as D-I get changed.

[patrick_o'brian]

I think it's time the rules for what qualifies as D-I get changed.

I agree. The only reason these schools want to jump is for the money. I can't see where any of these schools think that they can compete at this level. Northern Kentucky has been a DII power house for awhile due to the fact that they have great facilities and a great DII tradition. They also have benefited from several Div 1 transfers. The transfers would dry up and they would be competing for players with the likes of Louisville, UK, WKU, etc. Not a smart move IMO, but money talks.

[tornado]

I am afraid that the NCAA will continue to add some newbie D-I's from time to time just so ISU will always have plenty of opponents for their home schedule..

And - every once in a while, a school drops out of D-I -
Centenary just dropped back to D-III

University of New Orleans also just dropped to D-III

Tulane has twice flirted with dropping out of D-I --- once just recently - the other time they actually did drop out of D-I basketball for five years

PLUS -- many, many other D-I schools have been dropping their money-losing sports like swimming, wrestling, track,. etc....so in some sports there are few schools left competing -- thus the influx of new D-I members might help alleviate that.

[tornado]

As of yesterday -- Florida Gulf Coast University, where Ken Kavanagh is the AD, has been granted full Division I status...

http://www.eaglenews.org/fgcu-sports-officially-approved-as-division-1-1.2609823