(04-16-2017 08:25 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  http://newsok.com/article/5545610


An al D2 Oklahoma conference could be forming in D2 with these schools.

SW Oklahoma State
SE Oklahoma State
NW Oklahoma State
Central Oklahoma
NE Oklahoma State
Rogers State
Cameron
Oklahoma Baptist
Oklahoma Christian
Southern Nazarene
East Central Oklahoma

Would Oklahoma Panhandle State step on the brakes and stay in D2 to join this all Oklahoma conference?

This would put the Great American Conference's Arkansas schools for having enough members. This might be the point we could see Arkansas Tech and maybe Central Oklahoma to make the move to D1?

GAC members left:
Arkansas Tech
UAM
Henderson State
Harding
Southern Arkansas
Ouachita Baptist

Could they get UAFS, Hendrix, University of the Ozarks and Lyon to join as an all Arkansas conference?

Quote:I know both Arkansas Tech and Central Oklahoma could fit into the lower D1. What it sounds like, UCO is spending more money on athletics than some of the lower D1 schools. They might struggle at first in the Southland, but rumors of schools like Lamar want FBS so bad from the Southland that anything could happen.