The one GA school that I talked about is looking at D3, not NAIA. Their focus is strong academics. So NAIA would not even be looked at.

Of the the 4 other recently new NAIA schools that you mentioned, Dalton ST, Middle Georgia, Coastal Georgia were all NJCAA not too long ago. Ga Gwinnett is a really new school that opened in 2005.

As mentioned in my previous post, the University System of Georgia seems to be looking at the NAIA as a home for the no longer JuCos.


One additional thing, a long time ago in this thread there was a mention of a few states with public D3 schools with Wisconsin being mentioned. New York has a dozen of so D3 schools.
SUNY Potsdam, Plattsburg, Geneseo, Brockport, Oswego, Buffalo, Ferdonia, etc.