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C-USA meetings could get interesting


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Conference USA's upcoming spring meetings should be more interesting than most.

Thanks to UAB.

Besides needing to select a host city, venue and format for the annual C-USA men's and women's basketball tournaments, the league's athletic directors have to discuss the ongoing situation with UAB's membership when the meetings commence Monday in Destin, Fla.

It appeared the Blazers' swan song in C-USA would be the 2015-16 school year since embattled UAB President Ray Watts terminated the school's football program last December.

Under league bylaws, UAB cannot remain in the league without a football program.

So, it looked fairly cut and dried.

Until last Thursday, that is.

Read more: http://www.herald-dispatch.com/sports/x1641589675/C-USA-meetings-could-get-interesting

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UAB filed the paperwork with the NCAA to drop the football program. They would need to file new paperwork to get a new program going. Under current NCAA bylaw, no program can go directly into FBS. They will need to play two years at FCS and one transitional FBS year.

Unless they got a waiver. We know how the NCAA loves to give G5 programs waivers.

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UAB filed the paperwork with the NCAA to drop the football program. They would need to file new paperwork to get a new program going. Under current NCAA bylaw, no program can go directly into FBS. They will need to play two years at FCS and one transitional FBS year.

Unless they got a waiver. We know how the NCAA loves to give G5 programs waivers.

When it would create a mirage of 'doing what's right', I'm sure they would jump all over that waiver. NCAA needs all the positive pub they can get right now.

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